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Johnny Somali’s most controversial moments as live streamer arrested in Korea

Umito October 28, 2024

YouTuber Johnny Somali was arrested by South Korean police for his own protection after angering locals with his controversial videos.

The 24-year-old Arizona native’s live stream on Sunday showed him being physically assaulted by an unknown masked individual, who was later arrested. Later videos showed Somali – real name Ramsey Khalid Ismael – in the back of a police car. He can be seen drinking Soju, disrespecting authorities and antagonizing Korean citizens in clips shared on social media. “Americans have much more freedom here. These niggas protecting us in the back of a police car. Come get us! Come get us! you can see him saying.

Since then, his YouTube channel – where he had nearly 19,000 subscribers – appears to have been deleted.

But this isn’t the first time the live streamer has angered locals with his antics. Keep reading to learn more about her controversial moments.

Statue of Kissing Comfort Women in Seoul

Ismael repeatedly offended South Koreans before and during his visit to the country in October. In a now-deleted March tweet announcing the trip, he said he planned to “slap a BTS member for no reason.”

Upon arrival in the country, a live broadcast showed Ismael kissing and twerking on a statue depicting comfort women, who were the women and girls forced to become military sex slaves by the Japanese armed forces during the Second World War. World War. His actions, however, had consequences. In a later stream after the incident, a passerby can be seen punching Somali in the face before grabbing his phone and throwing it away.

One of Ismael’s signature shock tactics in his videos is to provoke public disturbances. Other videos from his trip show him playing loud, explicit sounds on public transportation and getting kicked off a bus for playing North Korean music loudly.

Shouting “Fukushima” at Osaka construction site workers

South Korea is not the only country where the live streamer has made racially insensitive comments and upset locals. During a trip to Japan last summer, a masked Ismael and another man entered the construction site of a hotel in Osaka and filmed themselves shouting “Fukushima” – in reference to the disaster. nuclear power plant of 2011 – to the workers.

Ismael was arrested, released and then arrested again a month later for disrupting a restaurant with loud noises on his phone. Although the charges of trespassing at the construction site were dropped, the court found him guilty of obstructing a business and fined him ¥200,000 (about £1,000) before deporting him of the country.

Comments on the atomic bomb in Japan

This was not his only scandal during his visit to Japan. His broadcasts around the country often depicted him taunting locals in public by repeating phrases like Hiroshima and Nagasaki and loudly threatening to bomb the country (which led to him being physically assaulted in the street, again).

During a visit to the Tokyo Disney Resort in June 2023, Ismael recorded visitors’ reactions (without obtaining their consent) as he played offensive music referencing atomic bombs through a loudspeaker.

Ismael’s offensive is not limited to Asian countries. This year, he was banned from Jerusalem for 50 days after pinning printed photographs of Harvey Weinstein, Jeffrey Epstein and Jewish streamer Adin Ross to the Western Wall, a Jewish shrine. He was banned from streaming platform Kick earlier in his journey for “inciting violent behavior”, including making death threats during his live streams.

Harassment of a policewoman in Tel Aviv

Adding to his growing list of arrests, Ismael was arrested again in April for sexually harassing a policewoman during an anti-government protest in Tel Aviv. A video shows him making lewd and offensive comments to the officer, calling her a “slut” and telling her he’s going to “slap her ass.” “I’ll take it too. Donald Trump told me to take it by the pussy. I’ll take it too,” he said.

Ismael was permanently banned from the streaming platform Twitch, but moved to streaming on other platforms, including Rumble and Kick. The latter, however, placed him under temporary ban on several occasions due to his offensive behavior.

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