Airport brawl sees staff batter passenger with wet floor signs and rip out dreadlocks

American Airlines check-in area saw an ugly fight with a flurry of punches and slaps and left onlookers shocked before those involved armed themselves with airport furniture

10:29, 20 Dec 2024Updated 10:35, 20 Dec 2024

Passengers and staff fight with wet floor signs in Chicago airport brawl

A brutal fight broke out between angry airport customers and workers armed with wet floor signs in an airport terminal.

The footage shows violent slaps and punches between four men and one man is sent rolling across the ground by a man in a white shirt.

The chaotic scene erupted at Terminal 3 at the American Airlines ticketing area at Chicago International airport in Illinois, US, but as yet no one knows why they were all scrapping.

Three men were attacking the man in a white shirt with one was pushed to the ground fairly early in the footage. Another man dressed in black with fairly long dreadlocks and a final man dressed in blue also took on the fella in white. One of them wore what looked to be an ID badge and potentially worked at the airport.

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Chaos broke out last Thursday at Chicago international airport (Image: Jam Press)

During the melee last Thursday it appeared the man in white was able to pull off multiple dreadlocks off of the head of the man in black.

At the end of the footage the man dressed in white picks up a metal stanchion as the three other men begin to close the distance between him, the man dressed in white is still holding what appears to be several of the other mans dreadlocks at this time.

After the man picks up the metal stanchion the other men begin to walk away whilst still armed with yellow wet floor signs realising their plastic weapons may not be up to the task.

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According to Chicago police no-one has been arrested in connection to the incident(Image: Jam Press)

The individuals in the brawl were identified as workers from concession stands and not employees of American Airlines. Authorities noted the altercation did not interfere with the journeys of other passengers.

According to the New York Post, Chicago police have not arrested anyone in connection with the brawl and officials at the Chicago Department of Aviation have refused to comment on the incident.

Chicago international airport is the ninth busiest airport in the world and in 2023 alone it handled over 70 million passengers.

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