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Poirier (30-10) was recently arrested at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport after threatening to fight a police officer and being denied permission to board a flight. He was admittedly drunk when he approached the airport desk. The former Ultimate Fighting Championship lightweight believes the desk agents denied him entry and called the police after seeing him intoxicated.
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Dustin Poirier’s airport arrest and apology to the police officer involved
Poirier recently issued an apology to the desk agents with whom he got into an altercation. “The Diamond” has also asked his lawyer to acquire the contact details of the police officer he threatened to fight and called a racial slur.
Poirier now wants to contact the officer to let him know what a great job he did. He admits that things could have taken a turn for the worse if it hadn’t been for the police officer’s professionalism. The former interim lightweight champion said on “The Diary of a CEO” podcast:
“The desk agent might have seen I was intoxicated. It was like, ‘Nah, you can’t get on this plane.’ That might have what started it. But I do want to apologize to those desk agents, whoever they are. And the police, for having to put up with me. I actually asked a lawyer in Atlanta that I’ve been working with if he can please give me that officer’s information, his address. I want to write him a letter. His cell phone, if I can call him, just to tell him how great of a job he did dealing with a person in that condition, how professional he was. He’s incredible… it could have been so much worse.”
This article first appeared at Recent News on Sherdog.com
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