Bodycam: Father and Son Decided Fight Police Together Over Airline Seat — That Was Terrible Decision

Added: 2026-05-28

[00:00:00]On June 1st, 2025, officers were dispatched to Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport after receiving reports of a disturbance involving a passenger refusing to comply with flight crew instructions and refusing to exit the aircraft.

[00:00:16]Hello.

[00:00:18]What's going on? He's He's recording now, so you don't understand.

[00:00:22]What's that? He threatened all of us, too. So All right, so here's What's going on? He has a story to tell. You know the story now. All right, so so he He saw that. And I'll throw it.

[00:00:35]I was in the flight 1905. I was traveling with his uh with his kids and another family member, the grandmother.

[00:00:44]He placed a seat he placed the daughter in someone else's seat.

[00:00:49]Uh while we seated them with the grandmother, with the adult, father of the parent, he removed the daughter, put them in the other seat beside her and the other daughter, which was assigned to someone else.

[00:01:03]He flight attendant >> her and his family, right?

[00:01:06]Okay. Flight attendant asked, you know, to put the daughter back with the grandmother so the other person who's sick there assigned seat. He refused to do it. He non-compliant, non-compliant. We asked him we asked him to get off the aircraft, get his stuff and get off the aircraft and get her with her so they could come quickly and he just non-compliant, non-compliant, did not listen to anybody.

[00:01:30]I started having him on a final gear, a notice of non-compliance. He refused to take it. He started recording here, which he has a right to. Uh but I didn't let him know I don't consent to him recording.

[00:01:42]He's right here.

[00:01:44]So we like him off the aircraft. Flight crew is not comfortable. They're not safe with him.

[00:01:48]>> Okay, so who you want off the aircraft?

[00:01:49]Just him?

[00:01:50]>> The mother right here.

[00:01:51]>> And the kids can fly with grandma?

[00:01:52]>> They They'd be willing to let the kids go with the grandmother, but he's going to have to get off to put them on on board. They're not safe long to sit there on the board. Okay. We were willing so we booked him on the next flight, but the passengers did not comply. Not at all.

[00:02:05]Okay.

[00:02:07]Okay.

[00:02:13]All right. All right. So, this this is what's going to happen, all right? Yes.

[00:02:17]The pilot doesn't want you on the plane, the crew doesn't want you on the plane.

[00:02:20]For what reason? They don't have to have a reason. They just They need to have a reason. Not by law.

[00:02:26]Once the pilot says you're off the plane >> me down on the plane with my kids and my disabled mother? So, your kids can stay with your mother if that's what you want.

[00:02:34]>> No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No.

[00:02:35]No. No. Okay. So, listen. This is what's going to happen. I'm going to tell you now. I'm going to tell you this is the way it works, okay?

[00:02:40]>> Yes. Well, they can come off with you if that's what you want. That's fine. All right. They're your kids. You For what for what reason? Cuz apparently you're not following rules.

[00:02:47]I am following rules. Why? All right.

[00:02:50]>> on my seat. Okay. Come. I'll show you I'll show you my I don't need to come anywhere. I'll show you my seat.

[00:02:55]So, I have my ticket. If you refuse to come off, you'll be arrested. Everybody on this plane will have to come off and you'll be arrested. It's as simple as that.

[00:03:04]All right? Look. This is my seat. 25B.

[00:03:08]Can I come and show you where is my seat? No. This is my seat, so you are doing something wrong.

[00:03:13]No. That has nothing to do with the plane. My daughter was supposed to to change the seat, but the person >> I'm giving you Are you going to come off the plane or no? That's all I need to know.

[00:03:21]>> on my seat. Look. This is the 25D.

[00:03:24]And I register I registered where where I'm sitting. Okay. Are you understanding what I'm telling you?

[00:03:29]>> sitting on 25B. Okay.

[00:03:33]You're going under arrest.

[00:03:35]Don't worry about it. Put your hands behind your back. Hands behind your back. Do it now.

[00:03:39]The plane behind your back.

[00:03:41]I'm putting my hands behind my my back.

[00:03:45]Drop the phone.

[00:03:46]Drop the phone.

[00:03:49]You don't want to do it is way, right? I want do come off with your kids or your kids go with your mother. comply. But you want to go to jail, so that's what's going to happen.

[00:04:03]This is well.

[00:04:07]>> [laughter] >> You don't have to TALK AT ALL. GET DOWN.

[00:04:12]GET DOWN.

[00:04:21]GET DOWN.

[00:04:23]TURN AROUND.

[00:04:25]Get down.

[00:04:36]Get down.

[00:04:38]You will get your things.

[00:05:31]Okay.

[00:05:35]Just wait till the rest of them get here.

[00:05:42]You guys want to open up? You all good?

[00:05:44]All right.

[00:05:47]Just face the wall. You don't have nothing to talk about here.

[00:05:51]I got to come running at codes like that.

[00:05:53]I didn't do anything. Let it go.

[00:05:57]You want to tell me something? You wouldn't listen. That's why you're in a quest. You want to tell me something to me, I promise you.

[00:06:02]The way I do things obviously. Please do me a favor.

[00:06:05]Please do me a favor. Just let him go.

[00:06:08]Let him go, please.

[00:06:10]I'll do whatever you want.

[00:06:12]I know you want to I swear to God.

[00:06:13]That's what you get right there. Okay.

[00:06:16]That's what you get right there. I was never detained in my life. This is unfair. You don't You don't want to listen, so >> saying that you're doing something unfair, absolutely.

[00:06:25]I respect you. I respect your job.

[00:06:28]But please let him go, though. Please.

[00:06:31]Please. Just Just Just let him go.

[00:06:33]Please. Please. So they beat me. So they beat me.

[00:06:36]I'll fight. I'll fight. No debates here.

[00:06:38]I'm seeing somebody else come, then I walk out. All right. Um We're actually on our way cuz you got to get information. So wait. Just hold him out there till somebody else comes. My mom is disabled. She's going to go I just need your info. Yeah. And the fire and all that.

[00:06:57]That's what I'm really asking. That's what that's called. No, no, they're going to pay for it.

[00:07:00]>> And you said that um the dad was trying to grab me or or He was grabbing one of you backwards. His back was to Yeah, he was grabbing his phone off the floor. Okay. That's when I grabbed him. He was grabbing the camera.

[00:07:11]Now you have them on my phone, too.

[00:07:12]Don't worry. You have that thing you You have it I think it was him. His back was turned and then the pops was trying to grab on. I didn't want to reach for He was trying to grab me. That's what he's trying to do. The officer's back is showing. He was trying to grab me.

[00:07:26]That's what he's trying to do. He doesn't even speak English. I got their info. That's all. Just um I can need somebody else cuz I got two.

[00:07:34]Okay. We took him and I guess dad came running after. They said when I was trying to pick up his phone I guess he after him. Yes, after me he was Then he went after him as well.

[00:07:43]After me he was rain.

[00:07:49]I got the two I am over here.

[00:07:56]Can you please let me know who?

[00:07:59]That's not my beyond that too late now.

[00:08:03]Please you don't want to listen you could have just came off by yourself and let your whole family fly. The kids go.

[00:08:09]That's all.

[00:08:10]That's how I tried to have you do right?

[00:08:13]But you didn't want to listen. It's been a week they didn't see their mom. Please officers call. It's not It's not up to us.

[00:08:26]I need a I need units with a cage. I don't have a cage.

[00:08:37]What's your date of birth dad?

[00:08:40]Speak English.

[00:08:41]Okay. What's When was your dad born?

[00:08:48]He was just And where was he born?

[00:08:53]Where was your dad born?

[00:08:57]Where Where was your dad born?

[00:09:02]You a citizen or Albanian citizen?

[00:09:05]Your dad? My dad is Albanian.

[00:09:07]He has a green card.

[00:09:11]He didn't do nothing.

[00:09:12]He didn't do nothing. He was coming to me.

[00:09:15]The kids were crying that's why he did.

[00:09:17]What's the phone number for you?

[00:09:19]Please he didn't do anything. And where were you born?

[00:09:25]Are you Albanian citizen still or US?

[00:09:29]You're American now?

[00:09:33]I never had trouble with anybody.

[00:09:36]The guy on the plane he better than you.

[00:09:39]Right, but I I explained to you multiple times >> Absolutely. that they don't want you on the plane, the pilot has authority of the plane, whatever they tell you, you got to do it.

[00:09:48]>> you were you were just you were just you were just right.

[00:09:52]I swear to Why would I do that? I swear to my I just wanted you to get off the plane and your children to go with the family. You were just just just saying.

[00:10:00]If I knew, I would have come complied. Absolutely. I told you that that's the way it's going to work if you refuse, okay? Absolutely. So unfortunately 100% I would I And that's where we're at now. Unfortunately, your family's getting kicked off the plane, too. My mom, can can you please please We don't have control over that.

[00:10:18]Once the airline makes that decision, that's it.

[00:10:20]>> for my dad, please. No, it's way past that.

[00:10:25]The son was charged with trespassing after warning and resisting without violence, while the father was arrested for interfering with an arrest after attempting to free him from deputy's custody. Share your thoughts in the comments below, and don't forget to like and subscribe.