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

YouTuber Johnny Somali has been taken into custody by South Korean constabulary for his ain extortion aft angering locals with his arguable videos.

On Sunday, the 24-year-old Arizona native’s unrecorded watercourse showed him being physically assaulted by an chartless masked individual, who was aboriginal arrested. Later videos showed Somali – existent sanction Ramsey Khalid Ismael – successful the backmost of a constabulary car. He tin beryllium seen drinking Soju, being disrespectful to officials and antagonising Korean citizens successful clips shared to societal media. “Americans person mode much state here. These n****s protecting us, we successful the backmost of a constabulary car. Come and get us! Come get us!” helium tin beryllium seen saying.

Since past his YouTube Channel – wherever helium had astir 19,000 subscribers – appears to person been taken down.

But this isn’t the archetypal clip the unrecorded streamer has angered locals with his antics. Keep speechmaking to larn astir much of his arguable moments.

Ismael has repeatedly offended South Koreans some earlier and during his sojourn to the state successful October. In a now-deleted tweet from March announcing the trip, helium said helium planned to “slap the sh*t retired of a BTS subordinate for nary reason”.

Upon arriving successful the country, a unrecorded watercourse showed Ismael kissing and twerking connected a statue representing comfortableness women, who were the women and girls forced to go subject enactment slaves by Japanese equipped forces during World War II. His actions person had consequences, though. In a aboriginal watercourse aft the incident, a passerby tin beryllium seen punching Somali successful the look earlier grabbing his telephone and throwing it into the distance.

One of Ismael’s signature daze tactics successful his videos is causing nationalist disturbances. Other videos from his travel amusement him playing loud, explicit sounds connected nationalist transport and getting kicked disconnected a autobus for playing North Korean euphony loudly.

South Korea isn’t the lone state wherever the unrecorded streamer has made racially insensitive comments and upset locals. During a travel to Japan past summer, a masked Ismael and different antheral entered the operation tract of a edifice successful Osaka and filmed themselves shouting “Fukushima” – referencing the 2011 atomic powerfulness works catastrophe – astatine workers.

Ismael was arrested, released and past arrested again a period aboriginal for disrupting a edifice with large noises connected his phone. Although the charges of trespassing connected the operation tract were dropped, the tribunal recovered him blameworthy of obstructing a concern and fined him ¥200,000 (around £1,000) earlier kicking him retired of the country.

This wasn’t his lone ungraded during his Japan visit. His streams successful the state often depicted him taunting locals successful nationalist by repeating phrases similar Hiroshima and Nagasaki astatine them and loudly threatening to weaponry the state (resulting successful him being physically assaulted connected the street, again).

During a sojourn to Tokyo Disney Resort successful June 2023, Ismael recorded visitors’ reactions (without obtaining their consent) arsenic helium played violative euphony referencing atomic bombs via a speaker.

Ismael’s offensiveness isn’t confined lone to Asian countries. This twelvemonth helium received a 50-day prohibition from Jerusalem aft 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 level Kick earlier successful his travel for “promoting convulsive behaviour” including decease threats during his unrecorded streams.

Adding to the increasing database of his arrests, Ismael was apprehended yet again successful April for sexually harassing a pistillate constabulary serviceman astatine an anti-government protestation successful Tel Aviv. A video shows him making lewd and violative comments to the officer, calling her a “b*tch” and telling her he’ll “slap that ass”. “I’ll drawback it too. Donald Trump told maine to drawback it by the p*ssy. I’ll drawback that too,” helium said.

Ismael has been permanently banned from streaming level Twitch, but has moved connected to streaming different platforms including Rumble and Kick. The latter, however, has placed him nether impermanent bans respective times owed to his violative behaviour.