Former NFL player Brendan Langley was taken into custody and charged with simple assault on Sunday after he got into a fight with a United Airlines employee at Newark Liberty International Airport, TMZ reported.

Witnesses told the outlet that the two had a verbal altercation before they began pushing, slapping, and punching each other.

A video of the incident doing the rounds on social media shows the two hitting each other before the employee loses balance and falls to the ground. Another person can be seen trying to stop them. 

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The circumstances that led to the brawl were not known. 

“United Airlines does not tolerate violence of any kind at our airports or onboard our planes and we are working with local authorities to further investigate this matter,” a United Airlines spokesperson said in an emailed statement, PIX 11 reported. 

It was unclear if anybody sustained injuries in the brawl.

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Brendan Langley was a third-round pick in the 2017 NFL Draft out of Lamar University. He is currently playing for the Calgary Stampeders in the Canadian Football League.

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The 27-year-old is not the first NFL player to have gotten into a fight with an airport employee. 

NFL cornerback Adam “Pacman” Jones was caught on camera knocking down an airport employee who attacked him. Jones was walking through the Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport when the employee made a “gesture” at the former Cincinnati Bengals star. This resulted in a verbal argument, which escalated and led to the two exchanging punches inside the airport’s terminal. The incident was caught on camera and viral on social media.