NEW: This viral incident - 20M views on Twitter! - had nothing to do with the Capitol attack.
Video was taken at Charlotte airport Friday night. American Airlines says the screaming man had just been asked to get off a flight to Denver for refusing to comply with mask policy.
Video was taken at Charlotte airport Friday night. American Airlines says the screaming man had just been asked to get off a flight to Denver for refusing to comply with mask policy.
There was never any reason to believe this man had been put on a no-fly list related to the Capitol insurrection. But that claim went viral anyway - even though the caption on the original TikTok video had said it was a mask incident.
The woman who filmed and posted the original video later conceded she hadn't known for sure that it was a mask incident; caution was always warranted. But caution was extra-warranted on the "no-fly list" nonsense, which was conjured from thin air.
He actually didn't. When you slow down the audio, he said he was called "a KAREN." (I'm not gonna get into a "well *I* heard..." debate. Even if he had said he'd been called a terrorist, no reason to jump from that to "he was a rioter on a no-fly list.")
https://twitter.com/watergate1974/status/1349051055045287936
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