It reeks of false. The people involved don't behave realistically, the author describes himself as an idealized Clint Eastwood, and has omniscient knowledge of events.
More to the point: the TSA does not tell airlines who to fly, if a flight crew / parent company want to kick someone off, they can; also: once an airplane has returned to the terminal (which is the call of the flight crew and always has been) it's the local police, or FBI who are involved.
So it describes an argument that would never happen.
Further: A failure to follow the instructions of a flight crew is, itself, a crime. Again, there would be no argument. Anyone that disruptive would cause the plane to return to terminal and be arrested by the local police, if for nothing else, than for failing to comply with the instructions of the flight crew.