This is the moment a woman is tasered by police during a fight on a plane, which reportedly broke out because she refused to wear a face mask.
The passenger, named as Nyasy Veronique Payne, can be seen standing on a seat and screaming at another traveller, shortly after landing in San Juan, Puerto Rico from Newark, New Jersey.
She then starts wildly throwing punches as an airline worker stands between her and another group to prevent anyone from getting hurt.
Police wrestle Payne to the floor back on to her seat, while someone on board says ‘Stop, stop, calm down.’
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Another passenger then reaches over and yanks her hair, provoking her to start throwing punches again before officers take her down using a Taser.
The man who filmed the encounter on Sunday, named Carlos Paredes, told CBS reporter David Begnaud the brawl broke out because Payne ‘refused to follow the airlines protocol to wear a mask’.
Puerto Rico police say she ‘provoked an incident by acting in what witnesses called an aggressive, hostile, and defiant behaviour’ aboard the Spirit Airlines flight on Sunday.
Other passengers say Payne and her three companions refused to put on their masks and were moving about the aircraft while the seatbelt sign was still on.
It is thought flight attendants called police onto the plane to speak with the group before the clash, in which Payne is accused of hitting Javier Lopez Cruz, 28.
However another traveller, named Alfredo, told Begnaud a group of three men started hurling racist and homophobic slurs at three women as the plane arrived, before one of them hit Payne.
Despite this account, the woman was arrested and taken into custody. Metro.co.uk has contacted Spirit Airlines for comment.
In August a brawl erupted on a KLM flight from Amsterdam to Ibiza after two British passengers refused to wear face masks.
Video footage shows one of the men being pinned to the ground with a bloody nose before being arrested by Spanish authorities.
On October 18, a maskless woman was filmed coughing at other passengers as she was taken off an EasyJet flight from Belfast to Edinburgh.
As she collected her belongings, she was filmed screaming: ‘All of you fk off. You get lives! Everybody dies! Do you know that? Every-f*ing-body dies! Corona or not. Everybody dies.’
Footage from an EasyJet flight from Manchester to Tenerife shows a man being slapped by his wife after launching an anti-mask tirade.
The man starts telling fellow passengers they are ‘being lied to’, urging people to ‘get them off’ and to ‘fight back’.
He is then heard shouting ‘shut up you f***ing imbecile’ to his wife, who then gives him a slap.
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