Off-Duty Officer Subdues Passenger on Flight

WSJ On-Line ^ | 11/27/11 | PERVAIZ SHALLWANI

[Pontiac]

An off-duty New York police officer helped subdue and arrest a passenger who allegedly punched a flight attendant and assaulted passengers Sunday morning on a flight from the Dominican Republic to New York, authorities said.

[Pontiac]

After the yelling started a second attendant tried to intervene and got punched. That’s when the cop took him down.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Ynoa very drunk fellow!

[B.Lyle]

The whole world is watching! The whole world is watching!

[Pontiac]

The whole world is watching! The whole world is watching!

???

Is this a movie reference?

[Pontiac]

I love those duty free stores too but I wait till I get home to indulge in my bargin.

[ChiefKD]

an off-duty NYPD officer who was sitting three rows ahead intervened and handcuffed Mr. Ynoa after a brief struggle?

I didn’t think handcuffs were allowed on a commerical airliner... how did he get through security?

[Dusty Road]

I’ve expedited prisoners from various states back to TX, I carried cuffs and a weapon on board. He may have been in travel to pick up a prisoner or had been to question one. Not uncommon.

[ASA Vet]

This was an international flight.

[ASA Vet]

Officer Anibal Mercado was identified in the previous thread.

[proxy_user]

From a different article:

“Mercado told Ynoa that he was a police officer, then wrestled him to the ground and restrained him with a pair of plastic handcuffs stored on the aircraft, police said.”

[time4good]

"then wrestled him to the ground"

Wow! Just Wow! - the plane actually went all the way down to the ground just for this? /sarc

typical brainless journalist English.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Those are the kind of passengers you just dogpile and beat the living daylights out of and leave them black and blue from the top of their head to the bottom of their feet so it’ll remind them to think twice about doing that again.

[JimC214]

That's from the 1968 Demo convention held in Chicago. Mayor Daly let the cops loose to crack heads on the Hippies protesting. They would chant that as they were being beat.

[Pontiac]

This sounds like a guy on a black out drunk. He probably wouldn’t remember how he got beat up.

[Pontiac]

Thanks