A member of Odell Beckham Jr.‘s legal team issued a statement Sunday night hours after the free-agent wide receiver had to be escorted off an American Airlines flight in Miami following an incident involving the flight crew.
According to the Miami-Dade Police Department, Beckham was removed from the plane without incident after the flight crew grew concerned for the 30-year-old when he didn’t comply with a request to fasten his seatbelt while appearing to “be coming in and out of consciousness” prior to takeoff. American Airlines later released a statement saying that Beckham was asked to leave the flight headed for Los Angeles for “failing to follow crew members instructions and refusing to fasten [his] seatbelt.”
Daniel Davillier, Beckham’s attorney, explained the circumstances that eventually led to his client’s removal from the flight in a statement obtained by NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport. Davillier refuted the claim that Beckham refused to listen to the crew, stating that he was asleep with a blanket over his head before he was told he needed to vacate the plane because he wasn’t wearing a seatbelt.
