Wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. #3 of the Los Angeles Rams runs off of the field after defeating the Baltimore Ravens at M&T Bank Stadium on January 02, 2022, in Baltimore, Maryland. (Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images)
*The Miami-Dade Police have released bodycam footage of the moment NFL free agent Odell Beckham Jr. was escorted off an American Airlines plane.
As reported previously by EUR, Beckham Jr. was removed from the flight after the wide receiver was unresponsive to the flight crew during departure. According to reports, the incident took place around 9:30am Sunday morning (11/27/22) at Miami airport when Beckham was flying to Los Angeles.
According to The New York Post, the flight crew said Beckham, 30, “appeared to be in and out of consciousness” and they were allegedly “concerned” for his safety, so police were called to remove him.
Watch the encounter via the YouTube clip below.
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“I’ve never had this happen to me,” Beckham told officers.
“We’re going to have to deplane everybody on this plane, and then you’re still going to get off,” an officer told him.
One passenger is also heard telling Beckham to get off the plane.
“You’re everything wrong with the world,” Beckham said. “Looking at me to get off a plane, for you. I would never, ever in my life get off the plane for you. Specifically you. Maybe everybody else, I would get off the plane.”
Beckham continued, “You gon’ wait 40 minutes and I’m going to be on a private plane home. Yeah, with your fat ass. Get your ass off the plane for a second.”
“Enjoy the cheese board on the way home with your ugly ass.”
Beckham later took a private flight to LA. He also hit up Twitter to call the issue “comedy hour” and said, “Never in my life have I experienced what just happened to me … I’ve seen it all.”
Meanwhile, here’s American Airlines’ official statement regarding the incident:
“At approximately 9:30 a.m., officers from the Miami-Dade Police Department were dispatched to a medical emergency at an American Airlines flight. The flight crew was concerned for a passenger (Mr. Odell Beckham), as they tried to wake him to fasten his seat belt, he appeared to be coming in and out of consciousness, prior to their departure. Fearing that Mr. Beckham was seriously ill, and that his condition would worsen through the expected 5 hour flight, the attendants called for police and fire rescue. Upon the officers’ arrival, the flight crew asked Mr. Beckham several times to exit the aircraft, which he refused. The aircraft was deplaned, at which time Mr. Beckham was asked by the officers to exit the plane, and did so without incident. Mr. Beckham was escorted to the non-secure area of the terminal by the officers where he made other arrangements.”
