The police escorted Odell Beckham Jr., champion of the National Football League (NFL) with the Los Angeles Rams and currently a free agent, to the outskirts of the plane that he had already boarded and was leaving Miami for Los Angeles this Sunday. Angeles, after he had an incident with the crew.
Local media collect the incident reported by the Miami-Dade Police Department that occurred at the Miami International Airport around 9:30 in the morning: the famous athlete
was forced to leave the American Airlines flight after arguing with the crew.
The forced exit of Odell Beckham from the plane was due to the fact that he, apparently asleep, did not respond to the crew's instructions to fasten his seatbelt before taking off, which led to the request of the presence of the police authority.
Odell Beckham Jr. of the Rams on January 30 of this year in Inglewood.Michael Owens/Getty Images file
Upon arrival, the officers asked Beckham several times to get off the plane, which the receiver initially refused, although after all the passengers were disembarked, he agreed to leave.
Available information indicates that Beckham was not officially arrested as part of the incident.
American Airlines released a statement saying that Flight 1228, with service from Miami to Los Angeles, had to be delayed because a customer did not follow the instructions of a crew member and refused to buckle up. .
The airline said the customer was removed from the plane and the flight departed about an hour and a half after its scheduled takeoff.
Beckham referred to the incident through his account on the social network Twitter by stating: "Never in my life have I experienced what just happened to me... I have seen it all", without giving further details.
With information from
NBC
and EFE
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