A disruptive passenger was restrained with flexible handcuffs and duct-taped to a seat as his flight was diverted to make an emergency landing in Baltimore Thursday night, photos and video from other passengers showed.
Richard Olenick and Juan Mejia were more than halfway through the flight when a man two rows behind them in the first-class section started to become belligerent, Olenick said.
A flight attendant tried to control the situation but the man got increasingly agitated, started to hit the passenger next to him and then hit a woman who tried to intervene, Olenick said.
was going to reply to @[email protected] but figure I will to you. Last protest we had a guy drive by. park. come back and he was trying to throw another guys sign over a fence. He put hands on the other guy so I tried to pull him away. Cops actually came pretty fast I think because they kinda monitor our protest. From what the guy was screaming me and another protester were basically debating on if he was mentally ill, drunk, or both. We came to the conclusion both as he smelled of alcohol but even then some of what he said sounded more crazy than drunk. Ultimately you had us and him and a bunch of police and their vehicles so drivers by were taking a lot of pictures and I imagine it went on social media more. So the guy basically upped the visibility of our protest as far as what he accomplished. That being said I think he was mentally ill but maga seems to have a lock on that demographic here.