Sergio Brown.Photo:Dan Mullan/Getty Images
Dan Mullan/Getty Images
A video has emerged showing Sergio Brown, the ex-NFL player who willface a first-degree murder chargein connection with his mother’s death, in a scuffle with law enforcement on a plane where officials were trying to bring him back to the United States, according toCBS8.
“Why are they grabbing me? They’re kidnapping me again,” Brown says in the video.
“I am from Chicago, my flight was Colombia — why am I going to Tijuana?”
The officer in front of Brown says something inaudible before Brown continues to speak loudly. Then he breaks free from the man holding him from the back and appears to shove the officer.
“Let me go!” he says again, repeating his claim that he’s the victim of a “kidnapping.”
CBS8 reports the airplane video was taken on Oct. 8, two days before Brown wasarrestedin San Diego, Calif. In the video, Brown says, “This is criminal confinement, they’re not authority figures, they should not do this."
Soon after, Brown leans forward and then swings his head back at the person holding him from behind, hitting his own head on the ceiling. He continues to say, “They’re kidnapping me.”
A fellow passenger, who would later introduce herself as a physician, approaches Brown and tries to calm him down with what appears to be a breathing activity.
Brown seems to calm down a bit before yelling, “He got authority problem!”
He twists his way out of the hold of the man behind him, and after breaking free, he gets on the aisle and snatches the badge of the other officer.
The fellow passenger who had tried to calm him before repeatedly asks him to “breathe," which he appears to respond to. He then grabs his bag from the foot of his seat, and the woman continues to assist him.
Myrtle Brown, Sergio Brown.Myrtle Brown/Facebook; Maywood Police Department
Myrtle Brown/Facebook; Maywood Police Department
She asks if he would like a glass of water but when he says yes, a person who can’t be seen in the video tells the woman Brown wouldn’t be allowed to have water.
The video soon ends, with Brown still on the plane.
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Christian Conway, a spokesperson for the family, told PEOPLE on Wednesday that Brown was deported from Mexico in relation to the ongoing investigation. She said he is awaiting extradition to Illinois, and declined to comment on his mental health at the time.
The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office previously told PEOPLE that Myrtle’s death is being investigated as a homicide, and that she died as a result of “multiple injuries due to assault.”
source: people.com
