{"id":1487752,"date":"2022-05-22T20:00:10","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T00:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1487752"},"modified":"2022-05-22T20:00:14","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T00:00:14","slug":"mike-tyson-responds-to-viral-video-of-him-punching-passenger-on-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mike-tyson-responds-to-viral-video-of-him-punching-passenger-on-plane\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Tyson Responds To Viral Video Of Him Punching Passenger On Plane"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmike-tyson-responds-to-viral-video-of-him-punching-passenger-on-plane%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1487752&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/MT-scaled.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson responded to a video that went viral last month that showed him punching a passenger on an airplane, saying that the man who he hit had \u201cf***ing with\u201d him.<\/p>\n<p>Tyson\u2019s remarks come after TMZ released a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/watch-mike-tyson-repeatedly-punches-man-in-the-face-on-airplane-after-being-provoked-report-says\">video<\/a> last month showing the April 20th incident in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was f\u2014\u2014 with me, man. I took pictures with this n\u2014-,\u201d Tyson said during a podcast episode that aired late last week. \u201cI shouldn\u2019t even be taking public planes. My wife gets mad that I take public planes, but what am I gonna do on a f\u2014\u2014 plane with my friends and [a bodyguard] he\u2019s supposed to watch me?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tyson said that the event \u201ctriggered\u201d him and that he was happy that he was not facing charges from the incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just don\u2019t f\u2014 with people because from my experience I know anybody is capable of killing you,\u201d Tyson later added.<\/p>\n<p>San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said that the decision to not charge Tyson was due in-part to the behavior of the other passenger.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have reviewed the police reports of the San Francisco Police Department and the San Mateo County Sheriff\u2019s Office and have viewed the various videos collected by law enforcement from others on the airplane,\u201d Wagstaffe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/mike-tyson-wont-face-charges-for-beatdown-of-fellow-airline-passenger\">said<\/a>. \u201cOur decision is that we will not file any charges against Mr. Tyson based on the circumstances surrounding the confrontation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese include the conduct of the victim leading up to the incident, the interaction between Mr. Tyson and the victim, as well as the requests of both the victim and Mr. Tyson that no charges be filed in this case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>TMZ reported at the time that witnesses said that Tyson had told the other passenger to cool it with his behavior and that Tyson lashed out when the man did not stop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVideo we obtained shows Tyson throwing a flurry of blows at the man, which you can see bloodied the passenger\u2019s forehead,\u201d TMZ added. \u201cThe witness says Mike walked off the plane just seconds later.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A representative for Tyson told a local news station at the time that the man was harassing Tyson and threw a water bottle at him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, 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,\u201d Tyson\u2019s representative said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson responded to a video that went viral last month that showed him punching a passenger on an airplane, saying that the man who he<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":1487782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1487752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1487752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1487782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1487752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1487752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1487752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}