'Straight Outta Compton' actor goes on profane rant aboard Delta flight
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}'Straight Outta Compton' actor Jason Mitchell (second from left) allegedly believed that Delta gave away his first-class seat. (Reuters)
“Straight Outta Compton" actor Jason Mitchell threw a fit on a recent Delta flight after learning he wouldn’t be flying first class — but the whole situation might have been his own fault, according to a Delta representative who released a statement to Fox News.
According to TMZ, Mitchell had boarded his flight from Las Vegas to Salt Lake City on Sunday only to find someone sitting in the first-class seat he believed to be his, setting him off on a profane rant that was captured on camera by a Delta passenger. In the footage, both passengers and crew can be heard trying to calm Mitchell to no avail.
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{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}“I paid my money, I’m supposed to be right here,” the 30-year-old actor can be seen telling a first-class flyer. “I got s--- to do tomorrow, you don’t understand.”
But while TMZ initially reported that Delta overbooked his seat, a spokesperson for the Delta Air Lines tells Fox News that Mitchell missed his original flight and was being accommodated on a standby flight, which no longer had any room in first class. Instead, he was offered a Comfort+ seat, which was reportedly the only seat left.
“The passenger was late checking in and missed his original flight from Las Vegas to Salt Lake City,” said Delta in a statement. “He was placed on standby on the next flight and confirmed in Delta Comfort+, the only available seat.”
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Regardless, Mitchell continued pacing up and down the first-class section, hurling foul language at the airline’s flight attendants.
“F--- what you’re talking about, because I’m not a problem. I paid my money, ma’am,” said Mitchell, who portrated Eazy E in "Straight Outta Compton."
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}“What are you saying? I got my confirmation, I got my everything. I’ve got my boarding pass. Why I can’t sit in my seat?"
“Man, f--- you!” Mitchell added when she asked him to gather his belongings and deplane.
In a subsequent video obtained by TMZ, Mitchell can be seen sitting in the Comfort+ seat he was given, ranting about the ordeal over the phone to a friend. At one point, Mitchell overhears a passenger commenting on the commotion and calls the man a “f---ing racist” before threatening to “smack the f---“ out of him if he makes another comment. Mitchell eventually calms down and settles in for the flight, but shortly after, a crew member announces that all passengers will need to deplane due to his disruption, at which point he jumps out of his seat.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}“I’m gonna get off the plane! Why you gonna make everybody get off the plane? What you doing? Why you doing that?”
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A Delta representative also confirmed to Fox News that Mitchell ultimately left the plane, at which time he was taken into custody by law enforcement.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}TMZ further reports that Delta opted not to press any charges. It is not immediately clear if Mitchell was re-seated on a separate flight to Salt Lake City.