The 'We Fly High' rapper appears to be unscathed as he takes to social media to address the wild three-man brawl on an escalator at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.
- May 6, 2024
AceShowbiz - Jim Jones has assured his fans that he's okay after he was involved in a violent fight at Florida airport. The rapper took to social media on Saturday, May 4 to address the altercation that occurred over the weekend.
In the self-taken clip, Jim repeatedly told his followers that he's "aight." He said, "I'm aight. Give me a second, I gotta get dressed for this party." He added in the brief video, "I'll be right with y'all. Promise you, I'm aight." He also added in a comment on Instagram, "To all my family I am good love yal way to many calls n text to reply to God is good."
A video of the brawl on an escalator at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport surfaced earlier on Saturday. In the clip, a man is seen lunging towards him, sending both of them flying down the escalator and taking out a seemingly innocent bystander.
The fight escalated as both men threw punches at each other. A woman rushed to turn off the escalator, but the fight continued before another man joined in until airport security got involved and broke it up.
Jim quickly let go of the man he's holding pretty though he protested that he wasn't the one who instigated the fight. "There's two of them against me!" he said. "He assaulted me! They both assaulted me!" He allowed the officer to lead him away and sit him in a chair.
Meanwhile, one of the other individuals wasn't quite so calm. He tried to pull out of a sheriff's deputy's grasp before more officers arrived on the scene and stopped him going any further. One the man was heard telling the officers, "He hurt my friend."
It's unclear what prompted the fight, but Jim claimed that he acted in self-defense. "I was minding my business and defended myself. They got what they were looking for," he told TMZ in a statement after the fight.
There's no word if anyone was arrested in the brawl. While Jim did not seem to be seriously injured, the other man seemed to be bleeding as a result of the incident. The innocent bystander, an elderly who fell off the escalator, also seemed to be in a lot of pain when he hit the floor at the bottom of the escalator.
