A Breeze Airways flight headed for Los Angeles on Wednesday was forced to divert to Colorado after a reportedly intoxicated passenger began starting fights with flight attendants and other passengers, the company confirmed to KTLA.

The offending suspect, a man wearing a dark shirt and a baseball cap, later identified as L.A. resident David Leroy Carter, was yelling racial slurs and swinging a skateboard and a belt, according to witnesses on the flight.

“I stayed calm the entire time and when he threw a bunch of trash on the floor and used some racial slurs toward a flight attendant, it made me a bit upset and I told him to calm down,” passenger Jason Murchison explained.

Flight attendants were eventually able to subdue the man, but said he managed to break free of his restraints twice.

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