A Canadian traveler pled guilty to attacking two TSA employees at the Miami airport in a rampage caught on surveillance camera.
While the incident occurred in December, video footage was only just released. It shows 29-year-old Cameron McDougall of Calgary, Alberta, approaching the TSA checkpoint. He doesn’t go through screening – instead the no-fly ninja becomes a prohibited item in human form attacking two agents without warning.
The man is seen lunging at one screener, repeatedly striking him in the head before turning on a second screener. He shoves one of them into the wall and continues the assault even as onlookers tried to intervene. The sheer speed and aggression of the attack caught everyone off guard, and left one TSA victim unconscious and another with significant injuries. Law enforcement took McDougall into custody.
This week, the man entered a guilty plea in federal court to charges of assaulting federal officers. He faces sentencing in August and could receive several years in prison.
The motive behind the outburst remains unclear. There’s no reported evidence of substance abuse or mental health concerns presented in court filings. So it’s either just ‘another day at the Miami airport’ or he intended to mark the postmodern moment, yelling “what’s the frequency, Kenneth?”
Throw in jail for ten years. Put on a permanent No Fly List. But that won’t happen. Even in Florida he will probably end up with probation.
Gary,
Makes you happy does it?
In Canada, people convicted of simple assault (i.e., without a weapon) usually get sentenced to 2 years in jail. With good behaviour, they are out on parole after 8 months. A 10 year sentence is usually reserved for more violent crimes. This is the US, so he should get what is normal there. It will be probably be more than what is normal here.
Alberta is MAGA/Trump Country, so I assume they’re all pigs just like the Boss.
Don’t mess with Canada. First the TSA, then they burn down your white house
Oh, and I have been through Miami a few times, I think we all want to do this there
Even before this year, Canadians were very anti-American. They are seething with rage and anger, so jealous that things in America are cheaper, like gas and milk.
This was a Canadian assaulting Americans for no good reason. Trump should invade Canada in retaliation. Make Canada not the 51st state but a penal colony. Take their oil and wood for compensation.
Not to worry. Good King Donnie will pardon him, like all felons; send cash
@George N Romey — I never condone these bad actors, though I’m surprised that you and the other typical ‘burn the witch’ folks didn’t also include ‘fire him!’ because that’s your common refrain, too, now isn’t it? Let’s allow due process play out; prosecutors, courts. No need for vigilantism.
@1990: “I never condone these bad actors”
Actually, you kinda do.
I would say put him on an island and let him fend for himself. The world doesn’t need him, ever again.
The TSA workers didn’t deserve this at all. The guy probably didn’t even have a ticket to fly anywhere.
Maybe there will be fewer violent airport incidents with fewer Canadians visiting the USA.
for the TL didn’t watch crowd
1. He assaulted someone on a previous day COPA flight Panama-Canada which CAUSED diversion to Miami. Not arrested. Booked ticket home to Canada independently.
2. He hid around corner in terminal headed to TSA then emerged to attack some rando in terminal, unprovoked.
3, This TSA attack happened.
This should be a bigger deal..
Derek McGillicuddy – mighty nasty to call “the Boss” a pig. I thought you liberals liked Bruce Springsteen.
I regularly think sentences are too short for violent crimes (and too long for nonviolent, low-quantity drug offenses), but in this case I’d be fine with the following. Sentence him to time served, deport him, and give him a lifetime ban from entering the US (with the ability to appeal that at a future date if he gets his act together). I also don’t mind “creative solutions” for cases like this for US citizens. Sentence him to two years and suspend the Sentence on the condition he doesn’t re-offend in the next X years. Housing prisoners costs us a lot. I’ll right the check for my share of a Charlie-Manson-type in a second. I don’t want us spending money if diversion can work.
More more time: Bad actor; due process. No need to go into hyperbole, or defame any of the identifiers (‘He’s a Canadian!’ *gasp* ‘…now we must invade them!’). Again, some of y’all are so quick to demand severe punishment for anything and everything. Sure, today, this incident, not good. But, tomorrow, it’ll be randos, perceived opponents, etc. Then, we get into “show me the man and I’ll show you the crime” territory. Beware of that. We don’t need another Stalin or Beria. We don’t want abuses of power in our society. We want rule of law. Not might makes right.
Illegal alien = chaos, crime, aggression, entitled, psychopath.
The loony left (in U.S. and Canada): We need more of that! Open the doors and flood the country immediately!
Ok, so how come a gun or laser was not drawn on someone for punching TSA but is drawn for people walking down the street who were minding their own business. Where is the equality in this? O, maybe cuz they weren’t black.
He has no worries, Donnie the Douchebag will pardon him.
Lordy, so everyone that acts out of hand is MAGA/Trumper, @Derek McGillicuddy.
Must be nice to be a member of a political party or affiliation that is *SO* perfect, so pure, so free of aggression, so tolerant, so loving….
*thinks back to the BLM and Palestine protests…
oh, wait.
Since McDougall’s brawling incident occurred at Miami International Airport (MIA), his assault arrest automatically disqualified him from participating in the Spirit Airlines evening passenger gate smackdowns for the next 30 days.