TSA officer<\/a> to a different lane to be identified through the agency\u2019s ConfirmID process.<\/p>\nSolomon allegedly became \u201cverbally disruptive and aggressive\u201d after the process failed to verify his identity, according to the complaint.<\/p>\n
\u201cViolent conduct perpetrated against TSA and law enforcement officers will never be tolerated in the\u00a0Northern District of Texas,\u201d US Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Ryan Raybould said in a statement.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Surveillance footage shows the moment the man allegedly punches a TSA officer. Department of Justice<\/p>\n
Idress Vinay Solomon allegedly lashed out after a failed ID check at Dallas Love Field Airport.
\n Department of Justice<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will prosecute such offenses to the fullest extent to seek justice for the victims here and to deter others from resorting to aggressive attacks against officers responsible for ensuring the public\u2019s safety while traveling.\u201d<\/p>\n
Solomon allegedly punched a TSA officer in the back of the neck after the officer called for a supervisor.<\/p>\n
Solomon, 33, of Oakland, California, faces up to 20 years in prison. Department of Justice<\/p>\n
According to a complaint, the Dallas Police Department responded to the incident, and Solomon allegedly punched one of the officers multiple times in the face, causing a serious orbital blowout fracture to the officer\u2019s left eye that required hospital treatment.<\/p>\n
After he was arrested, Solomon \u201cdeliberately spit saliva\u201d onto a police officer\u2019s right arm as officers attempted to place him into a police vehicle, the complaint states.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors alleged that Solomon refused to follow lawful verbal commands and continued to yell and pull away from officers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A California man was federally charged after allegedly attacking two Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers and seriously injuring…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[736,102,104,103,2402,6208,4024,734,6878],"class_list":["post-204263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-airports","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-flights","tag-travel","tag-tsa","tag-us-news","tag-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}