New police bodycam footage of Odell Beckham Jr.’s interactions. with police and passengers as being escorted off the plane at Miami International Airport has been released, revealing how the November movie unfolded.
The footage, which lasts about 45 minutes, includes wide-screen footage of Rams insulting a passenger, calling them “fat” and “ugly”. The video also shows flight attendants recalling how the star is said to have been unresponsive and not wearing pants when they repeatedly asked him to fasten his seat belt.
Footage of the November 27 incident, released this week by the Miami-Dade Police Department, begins with officers boarding American Airlines Flight 1228 and approaching the 30-year-old woman’s first class seat. Other passengers can be seen watching eagerly as the scene unfolds and police contact Beckham.
“Sir, can you wake up? Can you get up, please? Are you okay?” asked an officer. Beckham jumped up, confused, and said he was “probably fast asleep” when police explained why they approached him.
After answering a number of questions, the police gave Beckham a thumbs up, however, the flight attendants fought back, claiming he was not wearing pants (although police questioned him at the time). ta) and accused the NFL star of being drunk.
“Do you know how many times we made him buckle up?” a hostess told the police. “Many times, many people.”
One male flight attendant said: “This is a five-hour flight, he shouldn’t be doing this,” Beckham told a flight attendant that he had been out of the club the night before.
“He’s tired,” the policeman replied.
But flight attendants and even the Captain have stressed their desire to escort him off the plane, describing him as “aggressive and non-compliant”.
Despite being approached by the Captain, Beckham refused to budge. His actions forced passengers to disembark while airport staff could be seen chatting about the famous soccer star: “May I get his autograph?” One person asked.
When the decision to remove the passenger from the plane was announced, Beckham began confronting the passenger and apologizing. “Just get off the plane,” said one passenger, starting the uprising in first class as the others joined the chorus. Beckham responded with “fuck”.
Beckham told an officer: “I never let this happen to me. He was offered to catch the next flight but refused.
“We’re going to have to get everyone on this plane off the plane, and then you’ll still get off,” the police said.
Beckham replied: “Fine.”
Odell Beckham Jr. in an altercation with one of the passengers.
Miami-Dade Police Department
As the passengers were getting off the plane, another person – whom Beckham mocked by saying “you can look at me as much as you like” – replied to him: “Get off the plane”.
Beckham, leaning forward, said: “You can never say anything. You are everything wrong with the world. Watch me get off the plane, for you. I will never, never in my life, get off a plane because of you, you specifically. Maybe others, I’ll get off the plane. That makes no sense to me. You’ll wait 40 minutes and I’ll get on a private jet home. Yes, with your fat ass. Get your butt out of the plane for a second.
“Enjoy the cheese on the way home with your ugly ass.”
He then sent a message to the rest of the passengers: “I’m sorry. All you have to do is wake me up.
He could be heard on the phone later when he was alone on the plane describing: “Then a white man looked at me and said ‘let’s get off the plane.’
“Fuck, now you’ve made it clear my point is not to get off that damn plane.
“You can’t even make this up.”
Then he asked the police for one thing: “White man, in red shirt, don’t let me walk past him. That’s all I’m asking.” He was then told by the police: “Don’t slip on that brother.”
Police later reassured him and told him it came “from a loving place” as they helped calm him down.
Carlos Gauna, who was seated in business class on the morning flight, said Daily Beast at the time: “He was actually the last passenger to get off the plane.”
The other passengers were finally allowed to board and the plane took off.
Beckham’s lawyer Daniel Davilier blamed the “unnecessary” incident on an “overzealous flight attendant.”
