Sagging Pants Get College Football Player Deshon Marman Kicked Off A Plane
University of New Mexico safety Deshon Marman was taken off of a flight at San Francisco International (SFO) Airport Wednesday because his baggy pants hung too low and exposed his underwear. The 20-year-old was heading back to Albuquerque when an airline employee spotted Marman and wasn’t too fond of his sagging pants. Although he wasn’t a threat, police say Marman was asked to pull his pants up—when he refused, action was taken. Marman was removed—via citizen’s arrest by the pilot—from the flight because the airline’s dress code forbids inappropriate attire.
On Wednesday, San Francisco police got a call about 9 a.m. that someone was exposing himself outside a US Airways gate, Sgt. Michael Rodriguez said.
An airline employee spotted Marman before he boarded Flight 488, bound for Albuquerque, and complained that Marman’s pants “were below his buttocks but above the knees, and that much of his boxer shorts were exposed,” Rodriguez said.
The employee asked Marman to pull up his pants before he boarded the plane, but he refused, Rodriguez said. Marman allegedly repeated his refusal after taking his seat on the plane.
“At that point he was asked to leave the plane,” Rodriguez said. “It took 15 to 20 minutes of talking to get him to leave the plane, and he was arrested for trespassing.” Marman allegedly resisted officers as he was being led away.
Marman was charged with trespassing, battery and resisting arrest and was released on $11,000 bail.
But here’s the kicker: Marman was returning from the funeral of a recently murdered high school friend and was said to be in “an emotionally raw state” when heading back to New Mexico. A airplane employee singling out Marman for sagging pants (seriously, who isn’t sagging these days) seemed to draw the ire from Marman.
Should Marman simply have pulled up his pants? Was the airplane employee doing a little bit of racial profiling? Who was wrong? Marman’s fellow passenger may have summed it up the best:
Jake Tommerup, 57, of Phoenix, who was aboard flight 488, said he had been annoyed by the hour-and-a-half delay. But he also said he was stunned by US Airways’ reaction to what, in Tommerup’s mind, amounted to little more than a questionable fashion choice.
“When I get on a plane and see a 13-year-old girl with her whale tail”—exposed G-string underwear—”and fat old white guys with plumber’s crack sitting down, and middle-aged ladies in halter tops and tons of cleavage—if you’re not going to kick those people off the plane or ask them to cover up, then let’s admit the hypocrisy.”
Shame on the airline industry Nazis for harassing an ambitious young Black Man like this. This is why the TSA needs to be abolished and why stewardesses (yes I called them that) need to go back to looking hot and bringing me a bag of pretzels when I ask for them. Airline safety is just another term for police state!
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Shame on the airline? Is it that hard to pull up your pants and act like a man? Seriously, if you want to wear your pants around your knees than do it at your house. People don’t want to see your junk hanging out in an airplane. It’s their airplane and it’s their rules. You’re not going to get anywhere acting like a jerk.
So true. After a certain age….it’s just not cute anymore. You’re in college. I hate going around campus and see stuff like that. You’re 18, 19, 20 years old. Start acting and looking like it.
THANK YOU to the airline personnel who hauled this idiot off the plane. I, like most decent people, have no desire to see anyone’s buttocks or underwear (clean or with skid marks). The excuse ‘his friend died’ is lame: no where in history has exposing one’s butt been a way to deal with bereavement. It doesn’t take an IQ of 180 to figure out this is his preferred way of dressing. Period. Were I his mom he’d have worse things than jail to worry about – like MY wrath for defying the authorities & exposing his buttocks. I can see this young man ending up in prison where, for his information, wearing one’s pants that low means you’re advertising to other inmates you’re open to, how shall I put it?… ‘intimate fun and games’. It’s a lesson new inmates learn the hard (no pun intended) way.
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Icannot believe the people who think the airline went overboard! This is one more example of a punk kid from the MeMeMe generation who thinks he is entitled to do anything he pleases. Rules aren’t to be followed just by those who agree with them and when this young man was told to pull up his pants before getting on the plane he should have done it! And then he resisted arrest when the police escorted him off the plane? Again, he shows he has NO respect for any authority figure. I blame his parent(s) for that one. Shame, shame, shame!!
Pants on the ground, pants on the ground…
Agreed. I dont get why certain people go around looking sooooo ghetto… america is turning into a ghetto POS. thanks africa.
Low riding pants may seem disrespectful, but it’s just a fashion statement. Ignore & it will go away. Much worse is seeing a plumber butt (which I see a lot more often) and women 1/2 dressed.
We don’t need plane dress codes – going thru security is faster with less clothes anyway, but come on people – when judgements are subjective – we just cannot have them! Let the boy wear his pants wherever he likes as long as no private parts are actually exposed.
Tori,
I don’t like ghetto either, but since when do we give police authority to judge it? What if I don’t like your pearl neclace or you don’t like my tight jeans. Wanna get kicked off the plane for slight cleavage? How we dress is subjective. This isn’t a fascist state & we cannot start making clothing dress codes on airlines except: private areas covered. So U could see his boxers – it’s just 100% cotton material ur looking at – no different than a peasant’s dress or a person’s shirt.
It’s the WAY his clothes were worn, not the inappropriate exposure that bothered people & guess what? Too bad. People can dress ghetto if they want. It’s actually a fashion (sad to say) & who R U to judge his fashion?
insight about his career, competition inside
ohh gross….the thought of ass crack residue being left on the plane seat!!!!!!
My question is, if they were “below the buttocks but above the knees” — does he use suspenders, clips, or what, to keep them from going down around his ankles? Maybe they weren’t that low?