Man Goes Berserk On JetBlue Flight In Racist Rant Calling Jamaicans The N-word

Earlier this week, several videos emerged online showing Jamaican police escorting a white male passenger off a flight destined for New York following an altercation with another passenger during which a racial epithet was used.

The videos, which were recorded while the JetBlue flight was on the tarmac at the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston, showed a heated confrontation between a woman and the Caucasian man. Things seemed to get heated when the man used the N-word to refer to another passenger, and he ranted and raved about the lack of overhead space for his bag.

“This n-word is in my seat, all of you guys on this plane are n-words, you’re a n-word, you’re a n-word. And I can say the n-word anytime I want to,” the man said.

Checks with the Constabulary Communication Unit confirmed that the man had been arrested but not charged.

“He was taken to a medical facility in Kingston. He was not charged based on the circumstances of his medical history. We don’t know if he’s schizophrenic -the medical personnel would be better equipped to make that assessment. We are not aware if he has been discharged from the medical facility but he appeared to be traveling alone,” a representative of the CCU, the information arm of the Jamaica Constabulary Force, told DancehallMag.

It appeared that the man, who was late for boarding, became incandescent with rage when he was told to proceed directly to his seat and got there to find a black woman occupying it.

Irate passengers, one man in particular, rushed to the man’s section of the cabin – presumably to have a more intimate conversation with him with their fists –  when flustered flight attendants attempted to defuse the situation.

The man was subsequently removed from the flight by Jamaican police who escorted him in handcuffs back into the airport.