Stoned gimme gimme gimme black guy scares mom, daughter and flight crew and forces an emergency landing.
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Southwest passenger screams for booze, throws gang signs 'for Jesus,' forces PDX landing
A Southwest Airlines flight made an emergency landing in Portland after a belligerent man terrorized flight crews and passengers with gang signs, Jesus preaching and screams for booze.
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Lemar Sheron Rogers, boarded the plane Tuesday morning in Seattle and claimed he had a first-class ticket.
Attendants had to tell Rogers that the Sacramento-bound flight had no first-class seating.
And they asked him three times to stow his luggage,
"I do what I want," Rogers replied
Before takeoff, the suspect started pressing the call button above his seat.
"Yea ... I need a (expletive) drink!" an agitated Rogers snapped, the documents say.
The outburst scared a woman sitting near him. She asked that she and her daughter be moved to different seats, the documents say. As the plane taxied then took off, the man repeatedly hit the call button, cussed and demanded alcohol.
Rogers started shouting at flight attendants that he had an emergency, telling one he wanted three glasses of wine
To ensure the safety of all onboard, the pilot eventually diverted the flight and landed at Portland International Airport, the documents say.
Two Port of Portland police met the plane at the gate and took Rogers into custody. All the while, he rambled incessantly about Jesus, the documents say.
Rogers told authorities he had been smoking "purple hash" before the flight but didn't feel high aboard the plane, court records show.
Rogers claimed any gang signs he "threw up were for Jesus" and that the woman who switched seats did so because he is black, according to the documents.