SAN DIEGO — Cell phone video shows former NFL player Sergio Brown fighting with Mexican officers on an airplane Sunday in Mexico City as they tried to extradite him back to the United States.
Lakeside resident Michelle Williams shot the video as the Aeromexico plane was on the tarmac. Williams was returning from a family vacation in Cancun.
Brown can be heard screaming he’s being kidnapped during the incident, which occurred on a flight that was supposed to take him to Tijuana. He was being extradited back to the United States to face murder charges in the death of his mother, Myrdle Brown, 73.
“They’re kidnapping me… I'm from Chicago,” Brown yells inside the jet plane. “I should not be going to Tijuana.”
Two Mexican immigration officers are seen in the video fighting with the former NFL defensive back. “Let me go. This is kidnapping,” Brown said.
Williams said she noticed Brown was not handcuffed.
“It was crazy just to hear him start yelling that he was being kidnapped, that these men were kidnapping him. And I'm just thinking, what is going on?” Williams said.
The officers apparently were trying to get Brown to Tijuana to hand him off to U.S. officers.
Police said Myrdle Brown’s body was found on September 16 in a creek bed near the home she shared with her son in the Chicago suburb of Maywood.
Brown, 35, had been missing for the past month and posted on his Instagram account that his mother's murder was fake news. Then, in early October, TMZ Sports said it obtained video of Brown dancing and partying in Tulum, Mexico.
During the scuffle on the airplane, a woman claiming to be a doctor intervenes and tries to calm down Brown by offering him a glass of water.
Williams said it took an hour and a half for officers to get Brown off the plane. He was eventually brought to Tijuana and arrested Tuesday at the San Ysidro border crossing.
Brown remains in the downtown San Diego jail being held without bail. He has waived his right to an extradition hearing. Officers have 30 days to pick him up and transport him back to Illinois to face murder charges.
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