The son of basketball legend Michael Jordan name-dropped his famous dad several times during his arrest for DUI, cocaine possession, and allegedly resisting officers without violence. In the approximately hourlong body camera, Marcus James Jordan, 34, tried to recruit officers’ help in pushing his stranded car off train tracks, insisted he was OK to drive, maintained he did nothing wrong, said he had only made a wrong turn to what he believed was the highway, and sometimes outright berated them, even claiming they wouldn’t have arrested him if he wasn’t Black.
After officers arrested him, he sang along to songs on the patrol vehicle’s radio, including, briefly, “Eye of the Tiger.”
“You brought in Marcus Jordan,” he said, referring to himself in the third person.
“Are you popular or something?” an officer asked, later adding, “I don’t know who you are, man.”
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Marcus James Jordan (Maitland Police Department).
Online records out of Orange County, Florida, currently do not show any upcoming hearing in the matter or list an attorney of record.
Officers in the Orlando-area city of Maitland said they encountered Jordan’s car stuck on train tracks in the early hours of Tuesday.
“My car’s a little stuck right now,” he said on video. He and the woman sitting in the vehicle initially hesitated to step out but eventually complied after police told them that a train was headed their way. Jordan repeatedly insisted officers could help push the car off the tracks.
“I’m Marcus Jordan. I’m Michael Jordan’s son,” he said. “I’m not doing anything wrong. I’m just trying to get home.”
One of the officers told him they were not going to go along with this because he smelled of alcohol and his speech was slurring.
“I’m not slurring anything, ” Jordan said.
They made him undergo sobriety tests. Asked how drunk he was from 0 (completely sober) to 10 (falling-down drunk), he said three. Authorities also claim they found cocaine in one of his pockets.
As seen on video, police forced him into the vehicle.
“Officer Moreno advised the Defendant was pulling against him to avoid walking all the way to vehicle,” they wrote in court documents. “Officer Rosa attempted to search the Defendant, and he would not comply with any instructions given. Officer Rosa asked the Defendant to separate his legs to properly search him. The Defendant refused and Officer Moreno had to spread his left leg further with his foot.”
