Photo courtesy of Quincy / Instagram.
Quincy Brown took to Instagram on Feb. 28 to reveal his experience with a pilot on JetBlue Airlines. The son of singer Al B. Sure and Kim Porter said the pilot, Todd Papesh, laid hands on the singer.
The 30-year-old “Aye Yo” singer said he was boarding a JetBlue airplane when he was physically thrown off the plane by Papesh for insisting on bringing his carry-on bag.
“The pilot put his hands on me. Why? Because my bag, which fits in my pocket damn near, they claimed it didn’t fit,” said Brown. “My assistant had my bag. I was on the plane already. They wouldn’t let him bring it on. He gets on the plane. I let him know I need my bag. That’s not a bag to check. It has my medication, my personal items…. The pilot comes with my bag, tells me to get my f*****g diabetic medication out — first of all, it’s anxiety medication, not that. He looks at me and says, ‘You’re not taking this bag on the plane.’ I say, ‘Yes, I am.’ He said, ‘No, you’re not,’ grabs me and drags me on the jet bridge. That’s when I got my phone out.”
“I ain’t never had no pilot put no hands on me. I don’t know what you went through before that. I don’t care, but the severity of me just trying to get my bag for personal belongings became a situation where a pilot put his hands on me….JetBlue, what’s his name? Todd Papesh…. Get the f**k out of here,” he added.
The airline has yet to issue a statement regarding the incident.