excuse me excuse me pardon me sorry where is he he's somehow managed to make it down alright stop him excuse me can I have a way please thank you yo let's go great him let's go come with me let's go what are you doing what are you doing let's go I'm doing nothing get off the bridge let's go you don't listen to people is that your problem come on let's go keep walking look listen listen we get to the end we talk all right okay I'm let's go can I talk no you walk at the end talk walk now we talk later what's your you got a problem listening to people I'm listen keep going keep walking let's go they tell you you're not flying you're not flying why not yeah they they are right come on keep going they were racist OK well that's they were racist they are racist and I am come on keep walking I'm wrong keep walking they are racist and I'm wrong if they tell you you're not flying you're not flying so you have to listen to them how about that sir I'm let's go keep walking I'm listening to the cops I'm listening to you the police well you gotta listen to them too no I don't have to listen to you yeah you do yeah you do buddy come on let's go come on man go to the water move please move no violence alright listen don't make it don't make this be violent if they're telling you not to go on the plane why why don't you listen to them if they tell you that it's not up to you it's up to them you have your ID what's wrong sir I sent ya you have your license sir you got your license yes I do I was OK I was in the situation so it's it's really your license sorry yes if they tell you you're not flying you're not flying you're not gonna fly I don't know what happened to him he's he's taking me he's screaming at me whatever the situation I was over here that's what I gave 82 he came over this school why are you screaming for no reason I had no idea what happened the captain was here at the gate the captain heard him screaming threatening and the captain said he doesn't want him on the flight OK so we boarded the flight we told him you're not allowed we can't let you on the flight so he was supposed to go at 82 no he was supposed to go here but I was working at 82 OK so the captain heard him screaming at me and screaming at him and the captain said he doesn't want him on the flight she's telling me I discriminate her just relax I have been discriminated I didn't say you discriminated me what you I discriminate you why are you being so loud I have been discriminated why are you being so loud we're not deaf we're trying to help you we're trying to help them when you say please relax if you want to help me I need to take this plane you're not gonna get on that plane you're not flying on that plane and you're just not after this they probably not gonna let you fly you're not flying a plane they told you no no means no that's the rule no means no sir they run the show I passed through the the the security it doesn't matter I did anything I did nothing wrong it doesn't matter right someone that's a person OK so you're at 82 he goes over there so he comes over there screaming saying that someone over here was discriminating against him and I'm like OK and he just like started screaming like going off for no reason I didn't know what was going on he's reporting me and I'm like stop reporting me he's like you're discriminating against me he discriminated I'm back basically he's saying I'm backing up someone discriminated against him okay so the captain heard him the captain came up and said he doesn't want him on this flight so when he started boarding we stopped him from boarding he like forced his way down the bridge actually I'll be just a second did um did he touch anybody or anything yeah he was he touched right him we're just gonna be step off to the side for a second so what happened a passenger originally came up to me after I was I was still working in Philadelphia we were delayed four and a half hours and I'm trying to get him out of here he came up to me approached me here and started yelling at me immediately that he was demanding I help him immediately and I said hey man I'll try to help you but I gotta see my Philadelphia passengers off first and once I said that he started screaming at me saying I demand help right now and then I told him you need to respect me you need to be quiet now once I'm done with this play I'll come help you I had to walk away from him at that point came back up here he wasn't he wasn't available to me but I got called by my colleague that he had approached her screaming at her this camera recording her and I went to go meet a plane and he ran up to me to take a video or photo of me I asked him not to and he said sir if you keep this up we're gonna have to not allow you to fly with American Airlines and then during the initial boarding I stood behind my boarding agent to monitor and tell him how many times he had to step to the side so I said sir step to the side you're not gonna be able to play with us today and he persisted to try to scare the 40 pass so I put my hand on the scanner and I tried to turn it to the side and then he tried that pass just come around him he was still when I did that I had physic I physically got hit on my hand cause he was trying to access the scanner with my hand over it I he never did scan for the test but then it just went on down and at that point I figured I should get ahead of them and shut on my shut my secure door and when I went to lock the door and I tried to shut the door he ran through my arm and I'm still kind of feeling the numbness of my fingers do you want me to actually physically hit you do you want to press charges hmm do you want to press charges for battery I think I do OK what can you do that so why they don't no why they don't have to have a reason it's a private it's a private company no they can tell you anybody they want this is a sign of discrimination well I'm not here for that I'm here because they told you no I'm here because they told you no and no means no do you understand no means no it doesn't mean maybe it doesn't mean it's up to you cause it's not up to you it's not up to you it's a private business they said no that means no do you have that's what it means your license I'm gonna get a translator over here I'm gonna get a translator over here OK let's send to a por favor if he asked you that we're gonna have a problem I don't have a oh I'm gonna have a problem I'm gonna tell you nothing it's pretty bad for you right now you're being ridiculous it's bad for you now and you're making it worse I'm not rude to you I asked you a question you're ridiculous give me your license you're like a 2 year old kid do you have a boarding pass I don't know why license or boarding pass so I need a translator and I need a translator is not a lawyer I don't know why dude you have a clear problem with listening I'm a vacation you have a very clear problem with listening I'm a vacation OK so what I'm not here to to get a problem well you already are a problem clearly why am I here talking to you let me see the your boarding pass or your license I'm waiting for you you can wait all you want it's not gonna change anything you're making this a lot worse and a lot harder than you have to you're acting like a two year old two year old baby because you're acting like a baby I'm not acting like a baby what a dude you think you're gonna just walk onto the plane after they told you no that's like a two year old why did they they said no no means no no means no no you're not going on the plane you've missed that flight it's over with no not thank you very much you're done thank you you're welcome you're welcome we're here to help you we're here to help you so he's he's gonna go for battery he hit him oh trying to get down to the gate perfect he can go alright stand up put your hands behind your back being arrested for battery stand up and put your hands behind your back what's happened sir you're being arrested for battery what's happened sir let's take this off OK let's take it off let's take it off put your hand behind your back let's take this back put your hand behind your back take it off real quick put your hand behind your back I just want to put my phone on the back put your hand behind your back she's broken my my arm put put your hand behind your back I'll put this OK stop OK I I just want to take my this is what's gonna happen put my you're gonna go to the ground I just want to show you I don't I just put it here alright you have to put your hand behind your back I got this you're not you're not listening OK OK OK OK OK OK OK no it's not OK OK what do you want behind your back I'm in the ground man you sure are put your hand behind your back stop resisting and put your hand behind your back I got it I got it I got it I got it I got it I got it I got it I got it I got it I got it I got it I got it I got it I got it help it help it help it help it help it help it help it help it help it help it help it help it help it help it help me they're gonna kill me we're okay they're gonna kill me we're okay help me we're okay oh man what are you doing man I'm on vacation man what are you doing man you clearly have a very hard time listening okay I I'm listening you are got it I asked you for another violence alright please it's too tight it's too tight it's too tight please help me somebody help me it's too tight OK it's too tight stop yelling ah move your hand ah ah it's too tight ah wait a minute I can fix it stop moving help me oh you see that again come on let's go let's you don't catch you never seen man no come on let's catch you never seen what are you doing man I'm trying to fix it I'm the one of virus right I ask for a lawyer I ask for a lawyer just that stop yelling I ask for a lawyer stop yelling I can't fix it while you're here why are you doing this sir I can't get to it it's too it's too tight man why aren't you it's too tight there you go ah it's good it's good now you gonna stand up or what stop yelling ah help me you're getting arrested man stop making a big deal why am I arrested man why am I arrested I did nothing double lock it you wanna please guy you look like television can I get my phone put in my bag please no just that no just that's what I'm asking for sir you need to stop resisting you're still resisting I said no I was just want to take my phone and put my bag please sir walk that way what are you doing my bag my my bag I've been I've been researching all the time here what's this it put my phone in the bag please I will lost it what that way hey sir stop yelling stop what did you do throw up to hurt them come on you really are who's my victim all you were to do is get rebooked and you made it completely worse alright give me give me anything else done yeah we got a there's a victim for battery I gotta get him statements if you can get that for me OK um it's the one talking to Ja Jabari the American Airlines guy uh yeah OK OK you can you can you can you can I don't go anywhere man OK you can stop you can let me it's unnecessary I go I don't go anywhere you resisted up until two seconds ago I don't resist sir I'm sure you did well of course not the camera's you know what no means no means no the camera says no means everything oh it's all on here absolutely you're right I didn't resist when are you gonna call when he said come come on come on out buddy I get I get buddy I say put your hands behind your back it doesn't mean you start reaching for stuff when you say put your hands behind your back is that what that means that means I was just trying to it was fine you didn't have to do it alright on my back just that I just wanna know what I may have been accused of just that you touched them lady you could you tell me what I have done battery battery battery battery battery what is it means you touched somebody that you shouldn't have I touch somebody yes sir I did it right and the camera you throw it yes sir you're really it's terrible man I really can't go over here can I go to other place to the other sides so I should I should watch what are you doing you are messing my things and I I not in my presence not in my presence you should mess my things in my presence the camera is filming alright everything's on camera everything's on camera look his camera is on buddy you need to mess my things in my presence I don't have you don't need to you come on you don't you don't you don't everything's recorded this this just with a warning you have a warning you have a warning I don't I don't need one you're arrested okay you have you don't need you want his passport sir I mean anything with a name and a birthday there you go you take that okay are we going the other side we're going in the car alright okay everything's recorded my friend everything I'm a friend the whole encounter I I I wear it with you all the time my man you could you could you take it off no we're not taking it off you have to ride with it in the front nope no you wanna uh play outside and put this on yeah yeah no call the animal you're taking like but but so you got battery and you got resistant violence yeah see resistant from the second we try to put him in is there any type of charge for um going on the jet bridge when you turn it on I mean it's not like a yes that's not yeah no it's kind of I figured that I'm sorry racist is not crime here sure it is well racism isn't per se but if you do a crime with it it makes it worse which is good which is a crime or not well no yeah it depends on the circumstance absolutely I agree with you it is or not it is it is a crime if it goes along with a crime I'm pretty sure that's how that works it's a hate crime but when they told you not to get on the plane that means you can't get on the plane a passenger denied boarding at Philadelphia International Airport forced his way down a jet bridge struck a gate agent and resisted arrest three parties three very different legal outcomes who was right who was wrong and what does the law actually say federal law answers the first question clearly under 49 USC section 44,902 an air carrier may refuse to transport any passenger it decides is inimical to safety under 14 C Fr Section 91.3 a the pilot in command is the final authority for the operation of that aircraft that authority is broad by design it is not negotiable at the gate the passenger raised a racial discrimination claim under the Air Carrier Access Act 49 USC section 41,705 federal law draws a hard distinction denial based on a protected characteristic is prohibited denial based on conduct is not the boarding denial here was documented as behavior based initiated by the captain after personally witnessing threatening conduct that distinction is the entire case when the passenger forced his boarding pass through the scanner and struck the gate agent's hand the legal threshold crossed from dispute into crime Pennsylvania does not codify battery as a separate offense under 18 PA C s section 2,701 that conduct is simple assault intentional or reckless physical contact causing bodily injury the gate agent's statement established probable cause on the spot probable cause under the Fourth Amendment does not require a victim's consent to prosecute a warrantless arrest is constitutional when officers possess objective grounds to believe a crime has been committed the gate agent's recorded account combined with her visible injury satisfied that standard her willingness to press charges strengthened the prosecution but was not legally required the passenger refused to place his hands behind his back officers escalated from verbal commands to soft empty hand control then to taking him to the ground under gram v Conner 490 US 386 989 force is evaluated from the perspective of a reasonable officer on scene not from hindsight severity of the crime immediate threat and active resistance all three gram factors supported the use of additional force here under California v Hodari d 499 U S 621 one thousand nine hundred ninety one physical resistance to a lawful arrest is itself a criminal offense independent of the underlying charge the charge 18 PSCs section 5,104 resisting arrest the passenger later acknowledged this himself you are right I did resist that admission is legally significant during the arrest the passenger stated I am asking for a lawyer under Edwards v Arizona 451 U s 477 981 that single statement is sufficient to halt all custodial interrogation officers must cease questioning immediately the arrest itself may continue only interrogation must stop producers should flag any post invocation questioning in this footage grades law enforcement B patient de escalation across 8 minutes legally accurate advice proportional force with no intermediate weapons deployed deducted for repeated unprofessional comparisons to a 2 year old inconsistent with de escalation doctrine and inadmissible as good practice grades American Airlines captain and gate agent a minus the captain acted squarely within 49 USC Section 44,902 and 14 c Fr Section 91.3 the denial was behavior based and documented the gate agent attempted de escalation before escalating to the captain minus only because pre footage context remains unavailable for full review grades passenger legitimate frustration over a 4.5 hour delay but the law provides clear remedies a dot complaint under 49 USC section 41,705 or a civil action under the Air Carrier Access Act forcing entry into a restricted jet bridge striking airline staff and resisting a lawful arrest are not among them each decision compounded the legal exposure final charges simple assault under 18 PA C s section 2,701 and resisting arrest under 18 PA C s section 5,104 court disposition unknown at time of analysis any section 1,983 civil claim fails at the threshold American Airlines is a private entity not a state actor the Constitution's equal Protection clause does not apply directly key legal lessons from this encounter first an airline captain's boarding denial is not a court order you can appeal on the spot the remedy is administrative not physical second invoking race does not transform conduct based enforcement into discrimination third resisting a lawful arrest is a separate criminal charge even if the underlying arrest is later found to be wrongful fourth one sentence I am asking for a lawyer carries immediate constitutional weight no one to say it but here is the question the footage does not fully answer was the original boarding denial entirely clean the captain made a real time safety call based on witness behavior that is legally sufficient but was every procedural step before that point followed were rebooking options offered was the denial properly documented those records if they exist could change the civil picture significantly the body cam answers the criminal questions the paper trail answers the civil 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