New Bodycam Footage Shows Poirier Telling Cops ‘F*ck the Fans’
New bodycam footage from Dustin Poirier’s airport arrest has been released, and it picks up after the handcuffs. The former UFC interim lightweight champion is on camera telling officers to f*ck his fans and to uncuff him for a one-on-one.
An officer warned him the tape would not stay private. “You know people gonna see this right?”
“Man f*ck them too,” Poirier said.
Another officer tried the fan angle. “You gonna say that about your fans man? They pay money for you.”
Poirier did not take the off-ramp. “Fck the fans, fck you guys. Y’all free me and we go 1 on 1.”
The clip is from a longer stretch of Atlanta airport police video, about 28 minutes, showing what happened after he was already in custody. The first viral bodycam, released in June, showed him at the gate after being denied boarding, posturing at an officer, and daring a taser. This new footage is the walk, the hallway, and the booking mood.
Poirier was arrested June 21 at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and charged with misdemeanor public drunkenness. Police said he had been removed from a Delta situation and was agitated with airline staff. He was booked into Clayton County Jail and released the same night. The charge remains pending. He has not been convicted of anything in connection with the arrest.
On the new tape he talks about having done time before, challenges officers to take the cuffs off, and keeps asking to fight. “Listen, let’s rock one. Y’all free me, and we go one-on-one,” he says in the longer exchange. Later he tells them to unlock him so he can f*ck them up and to drop the “Mr. Dustin” talk. At booking, an officer on the desk is heard threatening to rip off a cauliflower ear. That is the officer’s language on the recording, not a finding of fact about what happened next.
Poirier retired after UFC 318 in July 2025, when Max Holloway beat him by unanimous decision for the BMF belt in New Orleans. He left with a 30-10 record, two wins over Conor McGregor, and a public reputation built as much on The Good Fight Foundation as on left hooks. The man on the bodycam is the same name and a different night.
Days after the arrest he posted that he loved everyone and was working on himself. He wrote that walking away from fighting had not been easy, that alcohol had ruined his father’s life, and that his family deserved him at 100 percent. In July he said he still had not watched the first video, that his wife had, and that he knew he was wrong for how he treated police, airport workers, himself, and his family.
The new tape is the part he said he did not want to see. The fans he thanked in that apology are the fans he told officers to f*ck on Father’s Day. Both things can sit in the same career. The footage does not retry the case. It shows what he said when he thought the camera was only for the cops.
Public drunkenness in Georgia is a misdemeanor that can carry jail time, a fine, or both. His lawyers and the court will deal with that. The sport is dealing with the quotes. Poirier built a lot of goodwill by being the opposite of this tape. The tape is now longer.
He has not issued a public response to the extended video. The case is still open in Clayton County. The words are already out. The officer told him people would see it. Poirier told him to f*ck them too. The people saw it.