Yahoo Lifestyle Airport Brawl Video — Showing Many People Punching and Kicking Each Other Near Spirit Airlines Boarding Area — Goes Viral
An onlooker recorded the dramatic incident at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Feb. 19
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Travelers at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (stock image)A brawl broke out at an airport in Atlanta, and it was captured on camera.
The incident occurred near a Spirit Airlines boarding area at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Wednesday, Feb. 19, according to local news outlet FOX 5.
Footage of the brawl — submitted anonymously to the verified X account ATL Uncensored on Friday, Feb. 21 — shows men and women punching one another, as well as several women standing on chairs to kick fellow travelers. It is unclear what started the fight or whether the brawl participants knew each other.
The now-viral video has garnered nearly 2.5 million views, more than 3,000 reposts and over 1,500 replies as of Sunday, Feb. 23.
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The Atlanta Police Department has informed PEOPLE that they responded to complaints of a disturbance at the airport that day, but the crowd had already dispersed by the time they arrived, and "nothing significant had been reported."
PEOPLE reached out to the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport for comment on Saturday, Feb. 23, but no further details were provided.
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Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport is the busiest airport in the U.S. and one of the highest-volume travel hubs in the world, and it receives about 93 million travelers annually, per the World Economic Forum.
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