Mike Tyson's Reps Address Altercation on Plane

Mike Tyson will not face charges stemming from an incident on a plane caught on video.The San Mateo County District Attorney's Office tells ET that is has decided not to file any charges against the former heavyweight champion of the world «based on the circumstances surrounding the confrontation.» Those circumstances include «the conduct of the victim leading up to the incident, the interaction between Mr. Tyson and the victim, as well as the requests of both the victim and Mr.

Authorities will not file criminal charges against former heavyweight champ Mike Tyson after he was recorded on video punching a fellow first-class passenger aboard a plane at San Francisco International Airport last month, prosecutors announced Tuesday.

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Ice-T and Gene Simmons are among those who shared support for Mike Tyson over the weekend, after the former heavyweight champion repeatedly punched a passenger on a flight bound for Miami.As reported by TMZ, Tyson was embroiled in the altercation last Wednesday (April 20) when a punter sat behind him on the JetBlue flight started loudly heckling and antagonising the boxer. Footage obtained by the gossip site shows Tyson landing several blows on the man – later identified as 36-year-old Melvin Townsend III – who appears bloodied after the battering.Tyson’s representatives said Townsend was acting “aggressive” towards the boxer – who was en route to Miami for a speaking engagement at the Benzinga Cannabis Conference – and claimed that in addition to verbally “harassing” him, Townsend “threw a water bottle at him while he was in his seat”.In a subsequent statement shared with TMZ, the San Francisco Police Department said officers detained two people alleged to be involved in the altercation, however one of them – believed to be Townsend, having been treated for injuries – “provided minimal details of the incident and refused to cooperate further with the police investigation”.In the days since the incident took place, a handful of celebrities have come out in defence of Tyson’s conduct.

isn’t throwing punches, he’s chilling out in a fairly modest Las Vegas home that he’s owned for the past six years. One of the greatest heavyweight boxers of all time, earning more than $400 million over the course of his professional boxing career, Tyson shelled out a mere $2.5 million for the six-bedroom, seven-bathroom estate back in 2015. Located in Henderson, Nevada — a few minutes from Sin City — it is the sole property that the “The Baddest Man on the Planet” owns.

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Losing his cool. Mike Tyson was filmed allegedly punching a fellow passenger on a flight home from San Francisco on Wednesday, April 20.

investigation,” police said in a statement Thursday.Both were released pending further investigation, the statement said.Another passenger on the flight, Sarah Burchfield, said she saw the man who Tyson punched at an airport bar earlier appearing loud and quarrelsome.“When I boarded the flight, I thought, ‘Oh, no, that drunk guy is on our flight,’” Burchfield told SFGate.Burchfield said when she boarded she passed Tyson's seat in the first class section of the plane.“The belligerent guy was sitting right behind him and I saw they were interacting," she said. A short time later, she heard the confrontation in first class, she said.San Francisco police said the video has been shared with the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office, which has jurisdiction over the airport.Sheriff's officials said “we are not releasing information on the incident because it is an active investigation.”JetBlue didn't immediately respond to an email seeking additional details.Since Tyson, 55, retired from boxing, he has worked as an actor, podcaster and cannabis entrepreneur.

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