Jerome Anixter

Introduction

Jerome Anixter is a 60-year-old man from Brooklyn who was removed from Delta Flight 2342 at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Thursday, October 22, 2026, after what law-enforcement sources described to the New York Post as a drunken, racist and expletive-filled tirade aboard the Atlanta-bound plane. Anixter was escorted off the aircraft by Port Authority police before takeoff, arrested, and charged with assault, disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and obstructing governmental administration. Video of the removal circulated widely online, and Delta publicly thanked police for removing him. The charges are accusations, not convictions: Anixter is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.

Background Information

Little about Anixter’s life has appeared in the coverage beyond the basics: he is 60 and from Brooklyn, and he was a passenger on Delta Flight 2342, scheduled to fly from JFK to Atlanta with 160 passengers and six crew members aboard. Police were called to the aircraft at about 1:30 p.m. Thursday after the airline reported a seemingly intoxicated passenger causing a disturbance as the flight prepared for departure, according to law-enforcement sources cited by the Post. TMZ, citing its own law-enforcement sources, reported the same identification and the same four charges. No prior public record of Anixter has been reported in the coverage.

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Charged, not convicted. Anixter faces four charges — assault, disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and obstructing governmental administration — sworn by police after his removal from the flight. They are accusations, not findings, and he is presumed innocent of all of them.

The incident played out in front of a plane full of witnesses and, ultimately, a phone camera. According to law-enforcement sources, Anixter went off on a drunken tirade as the plane sat at the gate, and Port Authority officers boarded to remove him before it could depart. Video reportedly filmed by a fellow passenger and shared on X by the account @thenewsjunkie captured the man being marched up the aisle while, the footage captured, he hurled the N-word and shouted, “Can you believe these mother f–kers?!” The person who filmed it told the account the man also yelled “Death to America” and pretended to shoot at fellow passengers — claims the Post could not independently confirm, and the Post noted it was not immediately able to verify the man in the video is Anixter, though the flight details in the clip matched those provided by sources.

After being taken off the aircraft, Anixter was arrested and charged with assault, disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and obstructing governmental administration, sources told the Post. What triggered the alleged outburst was not immediately clear, and authorities had not disclosed a motive. Delta distanced itself from the scene in a statement: “Delta has zero tolerance for disruptive behavior, and we thank law enforcement for their assistance in removing this unruly customer. We apologize to the customers on Delta flight DL2342 for this experience and any delay in their travels.” The flight ultimately departed for Atlanta about 45 minutes behind schedule.

Public Reaction and Consequences

The clip did the viral work: the footage of a passenger shouting a racial slur while being escorted off by police spread across X within hours, and outlets from TMZ to aggregators picked up the identification and the charges. The reaction concentrated on the audacity of the alleged performance — a slur shouted in a cabin of 160 people, in front of police officers, on camera. Delta’s statement put the airline’s institutional stance on record, thanking police rather than contesting the account. No statement from Anixter or an attorney representing him appears in the coverage; the Post reported it reached out to Anixter for comment and received no immediate response.

Current Status

Anixter has been arrested and charged, and the case is pending. No arraignment date, plea, or attorney-of-record has been reported as of this writing. The four charges remain unadjudicated, and the most explosive details — the “Death to America” claim and the pretend-shooting gesture — rest on the filming passenger’s account relayed by a third-party X account, not on anything prosecutors have put on the record. The Post could not confirm the man in the circulated video is Anixter. Any airport ban or airline ban has not been announced.

Impact on Their Career/Life

A 60-year-old Brooklyn man’s name is now attached to one of the most widely shared air-rage clips of the week, with the four criminal charges pending in court and his removal preserved in a video that keeps circulating independent of the case’s outcome. Whatever the charges resolve to, the documented record — police boarding the plane, the arrest, the airline’s public thanks — already marks the episode as the end of his travels that day and a reputation damage that no acquittal fully rolls back. The case now moves to the criminal process, where the accusations will have to be proven.

Sources

• New York Post, “NYC man booted from Delta flight after allegedly unleashing drunk tirade onboard”, 2026-10-23 — source
• TMZ, “Delta Passenger Uses N-Word While Being Removed From Flight by Police”, 2026-10-22 — source
• Internewscast, “NYC Man Removed From Delta Flight After Alleged Drunken Tirade”, 2026-10-23 — source