Viral Videos

American Airlines kicked a well-known reporter off a flight after he complained about it being delayed while live streaming inside a terminal at Los Angeles International Airport Saturday.
Cenk Uygur, who hosts the liberal-leaning Young Turks online news show, was told the “captain didn’t feel comfortable” with him getting on the flight.
He was escorted away by a police officer, whom he said apologized to him for having to remove him.

“I just don’t see how he has the heart to lie,” a tearful Julian Carmona told local TV, as you can see below, “I mean, when there’s kids… Can he be honest and tell the truth?”
Houston cop William Wright has been busted by video for an arrest he made last week, claiming a Julian Carmona pointed a gun at him, when in fact his gun was in his pickup truck the whole time.
Carmona is accused of felony aggravated assault.

A high school teacher in Texas was caught on video slapping a student on the head five times while calling him an “idiot ass,” leading to her arrest.
Mary Hastings, 63, who teaches geometry at Ozen High School in Beaumont, was charged with assault.
She apparently had unspecified issues with the student that she assaulted because the video shows professional educator Mary Hastings in a furious rage walking in the student’s direction and swiping papers off his desk.
Then she began slapping him in the head.

A Michigan cop arrested a runner for refusing to identify herself to the officer, who claimed she was jogging down the wrong side of the road.
But the cop was wrong.
It didn’t matter, because bad legal counsel turned a clueless citizen’s bad situation into a criminal conviction.
It cost her $707 in fines.
Vera Pecaj followed her lawyer’s advice to take a plea bargain to misdemeanor charges, because she was afraid of losing possible felony verdict in court.

San Diego police needed three patrol cars and at least four officers to arrest a man recording video just for stepping off the curb.
“This shit,” said the man narrating his own video that’s going viral, which you can see below, “This is what we got to go through in San Diego.”
Prophetic words.
The three San Diego cops performed what looked like a “jaywalking sting” even though the man didn’t appear to impede any traffic on the wide open roads, just to record the police activity.

An undercover Michigan cop with an FBI agent beat up an innocent man, then stopped to force bystanders to delete all footage of the actual incident.
James King was walking down the street to his job at Geek Group when had the misfortune of encountering undercover FBI agent, Doug Brownback as well as his tagalong: Grand Rapids police detective, Todd Allen, who was also working undercover.

Should an adult male San Antonio cop ever body slam a preteen girl?
A video uploaded to YouTube shows a San Antonio Independent School District cop named Joshua Kehm body-slamming a 12-year-old girl face-first into concrete on March 29 as you can see in the video below.
It knocked the girl unconscious.
“She landed on her face!” a bystander says after the cop body slams her, apparently leaving her unconscious.
The incident occurred at Rhodes Middle School in San Antonio, Texas.
Officer Kehm then handcuffed the girl and she stands up, walking away with him.

Two Atlanta Hawks players are suing NYPD for damages pegged at up to a combined $75,000,000 for a single false arrest outside a New York nightclub last year.
It all started when one player tried to hand $20 to a homeless person after police closed the nightclub down at 4:15am.
And the NYPD beat up that player.
It knocked him out for the season too.
Hawks starting Small Foward Thabo Sefolosia, missed the end of the season and his NBA team’s run to the Eastern Conference Finals after police broke his fibula and tore ligaments in his ankle too.

The Florida Trooper busted watching YouTube videos of cars racing while driving, was exposed on Facebook by a Lee County resident and military veteran, who gave a priceless interview to his local news outlet, which you can see below.
“It blew my mind.”
No further comment by James Peebles to his local NBC affiliate could describe the situation, but he managed to capture it in a photo which vent viral on Facebook earlier this week.

A man with a shopping cart filled with paid merchandise attempted to walk out of a Texas Walmart refusing to provide his receipt, leading to a uniformed security guard blocking his path out of the store.
“Would you please move out of my path” the man holding the camera told the guard, who was blocking the doorway, preventing him and a female companion from leaving with the merchandise.
“I need to check your receipt first,” the guard said.
“I do not consent to a search,” the man responded.
“It is not a search, it is a policy, sir,” the man said.