Baggy Pants Lead To Football Player’s Arrest

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Baggy Pants Lead To Football Player’s Arrest
SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL: Saggy Pants Lead To College Football...

Posted: 7:09 am PDT June 16, 2011Updated: 12:50 pm PDT June 16, 2011

SAN FRANCISCO -- A University of New Mexico football player, who was in the Bay Area to attend a friend’s funeral, was in custody Thursday after his citizen’s arrest by a pilot on a US Airway’s flight led to a melee with San Francisco police officers, authorities said.

San Francisco Police Sgt. Michael Rodriguez said 20-year-old Deshon Marman was told by a customer service agent to pull up his low-slung pants as he boarded a Phoenix-bound flight Wednesday morning at San Francisco International Airport

He refused and was again asked by a flight attendant as he was boarding the plane.

Rodriguez said Marman again refused and the attendant called the captain, who placed the 20-year-old under citizen’s arrest.

“The incident started in the boarding area prior to getting onto the aircraft,” Rodriguez said. “The customer service agent for US Airways asked the gentleman to pull his pants up which were down around his knees. She told him that (wearing his pants like that) was not going to be allowed on the aircraft.”

“He went down the jetway and was asked again to pull his pants up…The flight attendant at the door said he told her – ‘I paid for my ticket and I’m just going to do what I have to do.’ So he got onboard and sat down in his seat.”

Rodriguez said both the flight attendant and the agent said they thought it was offensive that Marman’s pants were around his knees and his underwear exposed.

The captain requested police assistance and was told to place Marman under citizen’s arrest. Marman was told to leave the plane, but a heated discussion ensued and all the other 150 passengers were removed from the aircraft.

“The officers stood by until the aircraft was emptied out,” Rodriguez said. “He came out…because of the slight struggle that he put up and not complying with the officers commands, he was wrapped in a special wrap we use to carry custodies down the jetway stairs.”

Marman was charged with trespassing for not leaving the aircraft, battery on a peace officer and resisting arrest.

The FBI had been notified, but there will be no federal charges.

Rodriguez said the other passengers were upset by the delay in their flight and the incident.

“A lot thought this could have been handled by the gentleman simply pulling up his pants – they questioned why he simply didn’t do it,” Rodriguez said.

Marman's mother, Donna Doyle, said that her son had attended a friend's funeral and he was still in an emotionally raw state.

US Airways spokeswoman Valerie Wunder says the airline's dress code forbids "indecent exposure or inappropriate" attire.

Copyright 2011 by KTVU.com. The Associated Press contributed to this report. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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What is the special wrap that is used to carry custodies down the jetway stairs? I wouldn't mind seeing a picture of this.
 
"Marman's mother, Donna Doyle, said that her son had attended a friend's funeral and he was still in an emotionally raw state."

they always have excuse for something.
 
A very close friend of mine passed away in February. I managed to keep my pants up that week, despite the grief.
 
It is a fun device that you see at a physch hospital but with the ability to carry the individual into a rig for transport. It includes a head piece that when on looks like the person is on the electric chair.
 
FlybyLaw said:
It is a fun device that you see at a physch hospital but with the ability to carry the individual into a rig for transport. It includes a head piece that when on looks like the person is on the electric chair.
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Cool, dude! :sarcasm:
 
It is the current trend in this country to charge everything. I suspect the battery on a place officer was pushing his hand away saying he had done nothing wrong. Big friggin yawn. His underwear was out? All that drama for some underwear? I read another place that his mom said he had dreadlocks and got hisself stereotyped. I had this sweet old FA that only got mad at 3 people in the few flights I had to endure. Guess what, they were all black people. One night some black guy back talked her (seeing her previous conduct I am sure it was provoked), and without investigating the Captain returned to gate as we were only 10 seconds into the push. Imagine my utter disgust to see it was a black guy I had exchange pleasantries met at the gate by the police only to be rebooked the next morning. The FA came up to the flight deck and my jaw dropped to hear, she really wished they had taken the other black guy off, the one with dreads and smelled like weed. She was a disgusting racist and I removed myself from the trip. Funny it seems to happen a lot at US Air.

Maybe he was a punk, and I wasn't there, but I am willing to bet no one else here at JC was. Anywhoo, we have gotten into a place in this country where personal freedoms are going down the drain, and everyone likes to judge anyone a little different. $$ to donuts race played a little factor.
 
granlistillo said:
Maybe he was a punk, and I wasn't there, but I am willing to bet no one else here at JC was. Anywhoo, we have gotten into a place in this country where personal freedoms are going down the drain, and everyone likes to judge anyone a little different. $$ to donuts race played a little factor.
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uhhh...personal freedoms, as in, wearing your pants around your ankles and showing off your underwear? Yeah sorry, I strongly disagree. It's inappropriate, and I'm sure if someone wanted to board an airplane without their shirt on, they would be treated the same way, and they deserve it.
 
Just pull up your pants so we don't see your underwear. Plenty of white boys do it to. It is a reasonable request, your not at school hanging out with your friends. You are in an airport with actual adults and children.

There is a time and place. Did he have his undies exposed at his friends funeral? I'd guess not.
 
granlistillo said:
It is the current trend in this country to charge everything. I suspect the battery on a place officer was pushing his hand away saying he had done nothing wrong. ........
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YES if you push away the hand of a Police Officer you might be headed to jail. Especially if that same Officer has just told you something, let's say as simple as "Get out of the seat and leave the airplane, you're under arrest for trespassing". Between this, the customer service rep, and the FA, the issue here is an obvious resistance or rebellion to authority. It started at home and has progressed into adulthood.

granlistillo said:
...........His underwear was out? All that drama for some underwear? .............
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Exactly....why didn't he just pull up his pants? As a general statement: Have we not heard enough in the news, post 9-11, about listening to and obeying aircrew members? Has this guy been in hiding? Is this his first flight since 9-11?

granlistillo said:
.....Anywhoo, we have gotten into a place in this country where personal freedoms are going down the drain, and everyone likes to judge anyone a little different. $$ to donuts race played a little factor.
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Color aside, you have described EXACTLY what the issue is here. People feel that their personal "Freedoms" should be openly and readily acceptable by society. Well they are not and that's how it's been since the dawn of time. Some people just need to catch up with that premise. The biggest problem people have about "Freedom" is the understanding that they have freedom until they interfere with another person's freedom. We have rules for a reason. This is less about freedom and more about getting attention. I saw a guy in Miami Int. wearing a black shirt that stated (in 5" white letters) "I DON"T GIVE A F*** WHAT YOU THINK OF MY SHIRT". The truth is he did care or he wouldn't be wearing the shirt! He was asked to change his shirt or turn it inside-out; he refused so he didn't get to fly either......no one was crying over him that day but maybe his hamster died and he just needed a hug.

granlistillo said:
.....and without investigating the Captain returned to gate as we were only 10 seconds into the push. .......
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What kind of investigation would you expect? There comes a time in crew resource management that, as a crew, you must trust the other person (all for the safe and sane outcome of the flight). When you tell the Captain he's about to run into a building, what amount of investigation do you want him to launch into? Let's say he did investigate and he overruled the FA. What do you think the dynamics in the cabin would be for the entire rest of the flight? How do you think it would work out with a gloating passenger and his friend and a pissed off FA? Whether he personally agreed or not, the Captain made the right call for the sake of the crew (and flight).

Now your racist FA is a separate issue. Having traveled a lot, especially in Africa, I can say this without hesitation or reservation: There are people like that ALL over the world and the knife cuts both ways. I was flying with a guy that called our Nigerian handler, "Boy". As in, "You're going to be my BOY for the entire week". Talk about stupid! I turned to him and asked, "Does the name Custer mean ANYTHING to you?" He said, "Oh I didn't mean anything by it, he knows that". Whatever.....

It is a shame that we can't live in a WORLD that doesn't give credence to such things. But we don't.
 
BlueMoon said:
Just pull up your pants so we don't see your underwear. Plenty of white boys do it to. It is a reasonable request, your not at school hanging out with your friends. You are in an airport with actual adults and children.

There is a time and place. Did he have his undies exposed at his friends funeral? I'd guess not.
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This. Why is it that the other 74,999 people in the terminal that day, regardless of race, were somehow able to keep their pants up while in public? So society should allow him to do whatever he wants because he's a self-important college football player, and thereby exempt from rules set forth for everyone else?
Without turning it into a racial incident, the dude could have just complied and been on his way. He chose to escalate it.
 
I'm sorry I must have missed the sentence describing Mr. Marman's race.

All I saw was an in depth description of an idiot.
 
Dust off, I appreciate the civil conversation. For the record, I wasn't expecting any further investigation on the Captain until we returned to the gate :) I am not totally ignorant of good crm. The prob was the bigoted FA didn't rate the trust given by the company.
As for the battery thing?? If it was a typical airport cop, he most likely would have been beaten to a grease spot by a NCAA football player if it had been battery. Again, throw the book at him to make a point. DRAMA

Your points are valid, and 10 yrs ago I could of written that. But there needs to be balance, and the pendulum is heading the wrong way...
 
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