{"id":386726,"date":"2026-03-14T19:44:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T09:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/watch-viral-video-brutal-airport-karen-american-airlines-laguardia\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T19:44:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T09:44:37","slug":"watch-viral-video-shows-brutal-airport-karen-takedown-at-american-airlines-laguardia-counter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=386726","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Viral Video Shows Brutal &#8220;Airport Karen&#8221; Takedown At American Airlines LaGuardia Counter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent video of a ground incident at <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"256663\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/laguardia-airport\/\"  >LaGuardia Airport<\/a><\/span> (LGA), in which an unruly passenger is tackled to the ground at the airport by police officers, has been going viral on social media. But as is the case with most viral content on social media, this video has been trending under the title &#8211; &#8220;Airport Karen&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Industry studies and data show a significant rise in the number of unruly passenger incidents, both within the US and globally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,475,636,1179,43,423,1709],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airports","category-american-airlines","category-laguardia-airport","category-safety","category-united-states","category-unruly-passenger"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=386726"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":386791,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386726\/revisions\/386791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=386726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=386726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=386726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}