SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Authorities on Thursday have been investigating an incident through which former heavyweight champ Mike Tyson was recorded on video punching a fellow first-class passenger aboard a airplane at San Francisco Worldwide Airport.
The video exhibits Tyson leaning over the again of his seat repeatedly putting the unidentified man within the head, drawing blood. The footage was first shared by TMZ, which mentioned it was recorded on a Jet Blue airplane sure for Florida.
“Unfortunately, Mr. Tyson had an incident on a flight with an aggressive passenger who began harassing him and threw a water bottle at him while he was in his seat,” representatives for Tyson mentioned in an e-mail to The Related Press.
Previous to the bodily altercation, the person is seen on the video standing over Tyson’s seat, waving his arms and speaking animatedly whereas the previous boxer sits quietly.
San Francisco police responded Wednesday round 10 p.m. to a “physical altercation” on a airplane on the airport’s home terminal, officers mentioned.
“Officers arrived and detained two subjects that were believed to be involved in the incident. One subject was treated at the scene for non-life-threatening injuries. That subject provided minimal details of the incident and refused to cooperate further with the police investigation,” police mentioned in an announcement Thursday.
Each have been launched pending additional investigation, the assertion mentioned.
One other passenger on the flight, Sarah Burchfield, mentioned she noticed the person who Tyson punched at an airport bar earlier showing loud and quarrelsome.
“When I boarded the flight, I thought, ‘Oh, no, that drunk guy is on our flight,’” Burchfield informed SFGate.
Burchfield mentioned when she boarded she handed Tyson’s seat within the firstclass part of the airplane.
“The belligerent guy was sitting right behind him and I saw they were interacting,” she mentioned. A short while later, she heard the confrontation in firstclass, she mentioned.
San Francisco police mentioned the video has been shared with the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Workplace, which has jurisdiction over the airport.
Sheriff’s officers mentioned “we are not releasing information on the incident because it is an active investigation.”
JetBlue didn’t instantly reply to an e-mail looking for extra particulars.
Since Tyson, 55, retired from boxing, he has labored as an actor, podcaster and hashish entrepreneur. He was in San Francisco for the annual 420 hashish pageant in Golden Gate Park, the place he was selling his hashish model Tyson 2.0, SFGate reported.
Tyson turned the youngest heavyweight champion in historical past in 1987 at age 20. Throughout his profession he had 50 wins, 44 of them by knockout.
Within the Nineteen Nineties Tyson served three years in jail after being convicted of rape. He has maintained his innocence in that case.
Tyson was briefly barred from boxing after infamously biting off a part of Evander Holyfield’s ear throughout a battle in 1997.
