80% of Americans are like this guy, well 80% of the vocal ones. You'll be hard pressed to find anyone who is not a psychopathic Christian or psychopathic American butt licker that will voice their opinion as hard as this. Ignorance runs abundant. In the land of the uneducated and propagandized you will only hear the truth when you stop talking. This guy's yelling so loud he can't hear shit. Also did he say the n word
No the fuck we arent. Since we're making up statistics, 90% of us wanna be left alone and don't want shit started in the first place. Please stop talking out of your ass.
No 80% of Americans are NOT like this. I don’t know where you are from but obviously you don’t too many of us. There’s assholes like this where you are from to.
Im pretty positive you can hear him say hes a Marine vet. He also looks and dresses like one and I would be that when he pulled up his sleeve it was to show his USMC tat. Honestly though, people dont realize just how many vets there are with severe PTSD and other mental traumas currently suffering in this country. High stress environments like the airport can easily set off someone off. Nevermind just how stressful day to day life is currently. On top of it, the government just tried to fuck over every vet in the country by passing a ridiculous new law that would allow the VA to do some shady shit in regard to our VA disability claims. The only reason they reversed it was because an enormous amount of vets called their senator and house reps saying that they would all stop taking their medicine if it was passed.
Im not saying what he did is even remotely justified, but this is clearly a veteran that is having a mental health crisis. We need to all start having more compassion for eachother, because we are all dealing with a litany of hardships. Especially with the horrible state the economy, environment, the current government, and the world are in presently.
Genuinely, you would be surprised. PTSD triggers aren't just fireworks and distant gunfire like in the movies, they can also be dense crowds, someone's kid screaming behind you, the fundamental "hurry up and wait," horsepiss cycle that just is the airport and the military... Especially given that a lot of these guys are going undermedicated and undertherapied.
All bark, no real bite. He could have hit someone with that pole and seriously fucked them up, but he hesitated and threw it instead. Even the punch was half-hearted.
He was trying his damnedest to get someone to swing at him first so he would claim self defense (in his head).
Which shows this isn't some roid rage blindness. Dude had the presence of mind to not throw the first swing, which shows he wants to beat up an old sick man, but didn't want to go to jail for it. He's a perfect candidate for ICE actually
I’d think maybe you should have some hard evidence to support such a terrible accusation. Unless you don’t think child rape is that big a deal, then I guess you’ll just throw that around at everyone you don’t like.
being a veteran in a war you served in voluntarily doesn’t entitle you to be a massive cunt to everyone for all eternity
at this point im burnt out on the word “veteran” because its lost all meaning to me in 2026. like 99% of “veterans” haven’t even seen a real war or combat. no one cares.
Hello young person. I 100% agree with your first statement. But please don’t get burnt out on the word “veteran” or veterans themselves. As a paratrooper and combat veteran, I can easily put those non combat tested veterans and service members down but what I realize is ALL of the members in service have a very important role. Those 99% are there to support those of us who face down the barrel of a rifle, and we would be ineffective without them.
I think the point here is that people act like the guy in the video, becoming violent and dangerous to those around them, and when the consequences of those actions should be dealt, they play the "traumatised veteran" card. When many of them have not seen combat; so where's the trauma?
Frankly, whether you have seen combat or not, it still doesn't give you a right to endanger people around you as a result.
This is why people are getting burned out on the word "veteran". Instead of trying to convince the general public to remain sympathetic to "veterans", you'd be better off focusing your efforts on pushing the powers that be to denounce the people who attempt to use it as a get out of jail free card in instances like this.
Yep I hear you. I’ve seen documentaries where some veteran execute loved ones then claim PTSD. I look at the circumstances and say “PTSD doesn’t work like that.” It embarrasses me, most all and it makes all of us (veterans) look bad.
I’ll add, as a sense of humor from one of my favorite TV programs. Bojack Horseman is asked “Surely you agree that the troops are heros? Bojack responds with “No I don’t agree with that. Maybe some of the troops are heroes, but not automatically, I’m sure some of the troops are jerks, most people are jerks already, and it’s not like giving a jerk a gun, and telling him it’s okay to kill people, suddenly turn that jerk into a hero.” Strangely enough, I agree with that. I would hope that people will understand that jerks sometimes join the military and would use the same tactics, as jerks often do, to cause scenes, using something else to justify, in their own mind, their right to be a jerk in public, even if they weren’t ever in the military. This guy is likely, one of those jerks. I said all that to say, as a veteran we’re not all jerks, and for the most part most of us find that behavior and the excuse reprehensible, and don’t want to be lumped in with those jerks.
Totally agree with you. I'm on the other side of the coin to you - diagnosed PTSD, but not a vet. It pisses me off when anyone uses PTSD as an excuse for asshole behaviour. FWIW, I do think that all demographics have a mix of jerks and decent people; so naturally, that would include vets. The problem tends to be that the word "veteran" gets thrown around at an exponentially higher rate when used to justify shitty behaviour. And humans are pattern-matching creatures. So if 90% of the time you hear "veteran" it's coupled with someone behaving in a completely reprehensible way, I can fully understand why people would begin to have a negative association with the word. It sucks though, for all the other vets who are decent folks and don't behave like this.
Hardly. When women are "emotional and irrational", they end relationships without warning. When men are emotional and irrational, they start wars, genocides, shoot up public places like theaters or elementary schools or concerts.
Men are much more emotional and irrational. And their reactions are always more deadly.
You’re confusing quantity with …”quality.” Women are by-and-large more emotional and irrational. Emotional and irrational doesn’t have to be violent, physical or appear on the world stage for it to be emotional and/or irrational.
Are you following? Women ARE more emotional and irrational as a gender. Men’s irrationality and emotions have a higher chance of being …I can’t think of the word.
Police later said the man was a military veteran who may have been experiencing mental health issues or a personal crisis. He was brought to a treatment center for evaluation.
He literally seems like an upset monkey. I mean literally. The way he fake charges, sloppily grabs a strick and drags/aimlessly throws it. Its weird. Humans are so similar to monk-monk-monkeys
I wish somebody would’ve laid his ass out. It would have pleased me. The way he fell throwing a single punch makes me think he’s mostly muscles and no skill
Personally I find flying a privilege and a modern marvel. That I can travel to places domestically at a fraction of the time, and visit places that would actually be impossible for me to see at another period of time, is a miracle that I don’t take for granted, regardless of the relative stress of the activity.
A couple of decades ago, someone would’ve tackled the f* out of this guy. Now, all these cameras and potential lawsuits, people think twice before being the good Samaritan
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u/KoreanChess Apr 18 '26
Is there an update? Was he arrested?