We don’t know the man’s identity as of now. But, Märc revealed their Southwest flight was “stuck in a holding pattern for weather.” Then, another passenger, a Black man–likely in his 40s or older, started “losing his mind over a baby.” In the clip, a child cries as the man yells at the crew.
“I paid for a ticket too to have a f**king comfortable flight,” the man yelled. “That child has been crying for 40 minutes…and you can’t put your f**king finger in my face like that.”
At this point in the video, only Märc and the backs of two flight crew members can be seen as one says, “I’m sorry,” in response to the man. The man asked the crew to “calm the child down” while claiming he had headphones on and was asleep.
Then, one flight attendant walked away while another crew member, a Black man, joined and seemingly told the man to stop yelling.
“Why is the baby yelling? I’m not screaming. You want me to scream? You want me to scream? I’ll f**king scream. Please stop that baby from crying, please. If that child was a Black baby, what the f**k would be happening right now?”
The attendants refused to engage on the topic, instead talking amongst each other about contacting local authorities. That didn’t deter the irritated passenger. Instead, he continued to critique the crying child and its guardians.
“Cause there’s a child crying on a plane non-f**king stop, that’s what’s happened,” the passenger tells the male crew member who asks him to lower his voice. The passenger responds, “Can you lower that voice?”
The other flight attendant tries to ration with the passenger, repeatedly saying, “It’s a baby.”
“Let’s be rational, we’re in a f**king tin can with a baby in a goddamn echo chamber and you wanna talk to me about being f**king okay,” the passenger screams.
His reaction after the male flight attendant said, “Because you’re yelling,” got the trending phrase going.
“So is the baby,” the passenger screamed. The attendant responded, “so you’re a man.” And the passenger replied, “did that motherf**ker pay extra to yell?”
Later, the man expressed that if the police “put cuffs on that kid,” he’d be okay “with going to jail.” As mentioned, it’s unclear if he was arrested or cited.
WATCH WHAT ELSE WENT DOWN BELOW, STARTING AT THE 1:53 MARK:
