Florida doctor has bizarre airport meltdown to 'prove a point' about police use of force'

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'If I was a black person, I'd be terrified'

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One Florida man recently threw fit at the American Airlines ticket counter at Orlando International Airport after staffers summoned police for his “erratic” behavior ahead of his scheduled flight.

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After police arrived on the scene, the doctor, 59, staged a meltdown that he later claimed was to “prove a point” about police use of force and said that “if I was a black person, I’d be terrified.”

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On August 16, Jeffrey Epstein arrived at the ticket counter at 6 a.m. to check in for his 6:24 a.m. flight to Philadelphia

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Set to be rebooked for the next available flight, Epstein became “irate” at the airline staffers as well as at “other passengers and children in the area,”

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When police arrived on the scene, the Lakeland man began to scream and foam at the mouth, Fox 35 Orlando reports, and went off on the officers in an expletive-laden meltdown.

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“This guy’s trying to provoke me. Do you have training, genius?” Epstein taunts an officer in footage captured by a bystander. “There’s no alcohol, you want to test me? Want me to count backwards?” he asks, as he throws up his arms.

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“Come arrest me,” he chides, as police move in. “They’re arresting me. They’re arresting me. They’re really de-escalating things,” he yells, as he throws himself onto the ground, brining three law enforcement officials down with him.

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“Oh my god I can’t believe they are doing this,” Epstein exclaims as he is handcuffed, as airport travelers watch the scene confusion. He continued shouting that he was “"not resisting, you are treating me like a f---ing black person!”

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"If you're going to do this to a white doctor, who's 59-years-old, for doing nothing, then why would black people trust you?"

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