Comic and actor Marlon Wayans was cited for disturbing the peace right after a dispute he mentioned he had with a United Airlines worker about carry-on baggage at the Denver airport final week, police reported Monday.
Wayans mentioned on Instagram that a gate agent advised him he experienced much too numerous luggage and, irrespective of consolidating his luggage, he was advised he would have to gate verify his bag fairly than carry it on. Wayans, who mentioned his treatment constituted harassment, said he took his ticket and began strolling on to the aircraft.
In response to thoughts about what experienced happened, United issued a statement that did not refer to Wayans by title.
“In Denver on Friday, a purchaser who experienced been advised he would have to gate-look at his bag as an alternative pushed past a United worker at the jet bridge and attempted to board the aircraft. The shopper did not fly on United to his vacation spot,” it claimed.
Wayans said he booked a flight as an alternative on American Airlines to Kansas Town, declaring he would alternatively fly mentor on one more airline than fly initial-course on United. He apologized to his enthusiasts in Kansas City for missing a performance.
“Sorry KC I’m gonna miss out on tonight’s displays thanks to a United gate agent who likely hated white chicks,” Wayans mentioned on Twitter, referring to his 2004 motion picture which also starred his brother Shawn Wayans.
A spokesperson for Wayans, Leslie Sloane, reported Wayans had a backpack, a modest have-on and garment bag with a accommodate jacket in it and set his backpack inside the garment bag but was continue to advised he experienced to examine his bag on a flight that was not comprehensive.
She claimed it truly is critical to Wayans that everybody feels protected and highly regarded when flying, no subject what course they are in.
“He felt none of that,” she said.
The citation issued to Wayans states he need to look in courtroom in Denver on July 11.
