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Just to be clear, the passenger, not the flight attendant, was charged with two felonies.
A Southwest passenger was filmed punching a flight attendant. She was charged with two felonies.
By Julian Mark
Today at 6:36 a.m. EDT
As Southwest Flight 700 was making its final descent into San Diego International Airport in May, Vyvianna Quinonez did what airplane passengers are repeatedly told not to do: She pulled down her tray table and unbuckled her seat belt, prosecutors say.
After a flight attendant reminded Quinonez to stow away her tray table, buckle her seat belt and wear her mask properly, Quinonez became defiant, according to a federal complaint filed Wednesday. She pushed the flight attendant, grabbed her hair and repeatedly punched her in the face, the complaint says.
The flight attendant was taken to the hospital after landing. Three of her teeth were chipped, including two that had to be replaced by crowns, prosecutors say. Her left eye was bruised and swollen, and a cut under her eye required four stitches. On her right forearm was a finger-shaped bruise.
Quinonez, 28 at the time of incident, has now been charged with two federal felonies: assault resulting in serious injury and interference with a flights crew members and attendants. The first charge carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison, while the second is punishable by as many as 20.
Quinonez has been ordered to appear before a judge on Sept. 17, according to court documents. She initially told authorities she acted in self-defense, the complaint states.
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By Julian Mark
Julian Mark is a reporter on The Washington Post's Morning Mix team. Before joining The Post, he covered housing and policing for Mission Local in San Francisco. Twitter https://twitter.com/badjujusf
Vinca
(50,168 posts)punching a flight attendant in the first place? I'm glad the person will be facing a stiff jail sentence, but it won't take back the experience for that poor flight attendant.
George II
(67,782 posts)bluestarone
(16,720 posts)TFG, plus millions of RELIGIOUS FREAKS, QANON assholes, retired veteran terrorists, and NOW a Supreme Court!
Irish_Dem
(45,619 posts)at her, other objects thrown as well. She is small, only 4ft 10 inches and weighs 105 lbs.
She used to cover her bruises when I came to visit her so I wouldn't see them, as she knew I would be upset.
All the ER staff have experienced the same thing. This is done by patients and their families who voluntarily come to the hospital seeking treatment.
Her friends at work do not like working in such a hostile and dangerous work environment. The hospital has given the staff training in how to handle dangerous patients, but probably the airlines are not yet at that point with flight crew members.
My daughter just got a promotion and is going to work in a hopefully quieter department in the hospital.
So it is not just flight attendants, these people are doing the same thing to healthcare staff and are now starting on teachers.
Back in the day all of these professionals were treated with respect. Not now.
Aristus
(66,075 posts)I'm 52, 5'10", 250lbs, and a guy. Patients don't do to me what they feel perfectly comfortable doing to your poor daughter (who has my immense respect, by the way), because people who do those things are cowards. Although, like your daughter, I took an oath to do no harm, patients do not assault me because I look like I could fuck their shit up for them if I felt like it.
TFG gave so much encouragement to ugly, nasty, brutish bullies like himself, it's going to take decades to get them to crawl back under their rocks where they belong.
Irish_Dem
(45,619 posts)when the tiny staff are getting knocked around.
I know, what kind of person attacks nurses, small ones.
What cowards yes.
When I found out she was hiding her bruises from me, I told her it is like a toxic marriage, she needs to get out of there.
It is interesting how people can become desensitized to the violence, my daughter and her colleagues feel sorry for the med/surg floor staff. A lone nurse going into a patient's room is a sitting duck. At least in the ER the staff has a good chance of surviving.
Yes The orange f-wad gave license for people to act out in uncivil and violent ways. The social contract seems to be gone now. We used to respect professionals who were helping us.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)Sarandon LOVES the Trump Revolution. It's what Sarandon wanted. Just LOOK at how giddy and animated she is... at that time she could barely contain her excitement at the horrors that await us. She must be absolutely ORGASMIC now!
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)That the RW's was far, far more powerful and advanced than the left's?
Or was she aware and preferred that possibility to no revolution at all? That is the case for some, and it's common for FW and RW extremists to ally against the mainstream majorities that block them.
Germany's socialist and fascist revolutionaries coming together in the far-right National Socialist German Workers' Party to seize power is only one of many examples. Not all knew that's what they were doing, of course, although when Hitler had the socialist leaders executed and purged maybe it was a clue. For some anyway.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)Sarandon didn't care one iota about the most vulnerable among us. She's FILTHY RICH! She'd NEVER have to worry about any of the horrors that the "common folk" endure. She can afford the luxury of watching a RW "revolution" unfold. (I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn that she's someone who actually BENEFITED from it as well.)
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)is just something most hanging on the left fringe are prone to, just as most among the far right are wired to intractable distrust and rejection of other races. Traits baked into the types.
As for the rest, I really don't know how she thinks. Sure, she may be perfectly aware of what she's doing. Or not. We know what these people say about why they do what they do. Doesn't mean she really knows why or that she even witnessed the high-speed train crash in her own head between her claimed beliefs and her actions. She may have been out to lunch at the time.
But what's the real difference between a LWer who throws progressivism to the far right to destroy, all the while remaining a True Believer in progressive ideals, and a RWer who determinedly spreads deadly disease while still seeing herself as heroically "pro life"? It's the similarities, including who they're both opposing, that are overwhelming.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)... the most extreme individuals could reach across and touch each other and shake hands if they wanted.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)What I don't understand is why so many decent and sincere people didn't clue in that many of the more aggressively hostile and/or dishonest types among the LW and RW populist movements of 2016, and still now in 2021, had and have so much in common.
Irish_Dem
(45,619 posts)The GOP goal is division, civil war, chaos.
no_hypocrisy
(45,771 posts)hlthe2b
(101,703 posts)It is hard not to place some of the blame on Trumpism--given he gave overt permission for some of the worst behavior our society can express.
But, I'm sure it goes further than that.
Vogon_Glory
(9,084 posts)I believe that Trumpism green-lighted a lot of this behavior, but it was already there and lurking just below the surface.
Perhaps (or perhaps not) because I come from an earlier generation, I grew up with the idea that commercial airliners could be dangerous places. You could kill or injure yourself or others if you were rolling around loose in the cabin and if you needed to get out of the cabin in case of a hard landing, you made sure you were ready to do so. You buckled up and you did what the aircrew told you.
You didnt have to like it, you were free to grumble sotto-voce that it was chicken (scratch), but you did it anyway.
A lot of todays air travelers act like they were riding a bus. Alas, unlike bus drivers, and unlike railroad conductors in days of yore, captains and crew dont have the option of kicking these peoples sorry backsides off at the side of the road or some lonely bit of railroad track out in the middle of nowhere.
Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)And I'm not talking about traveler behavior; I'm talking about the process and the accommodations. The endless security lines with callous, impolite TSA agents barking orders at you and routing through your shit; the airlines nickle-and-diming you for pretty much anything (one charged me an additional carry-on fee for my CPAP, a medical device); the airplanes themselves being designed to cram as many people inside as possible, irrespective of passenger comfort.
The list goes on.
Yes, people are ultimately responsible for their own actions, but shit... it's like the entire airline industry is challenging people to throw down.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)woman do if really pissed
ret5hd
(20,433 posts)cardiac arrest or stroke or apoplexia.
malaise
(267,793 posts)That is all
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Mysterian
(4,521 posts)Didn't work out too well for me.
mahatmakanejeeves
(56,885 posts)Your public library probably subscribes to the Washington Post online, as well as a whole bunch of other newspapers.
dalton99a
(81,065 posts)Irish_Dem
(45,619 posts)1. Telling passengers that appropriate behavior is expected at all times.
2. The first hint of violence he will land his plane at the nearest airport and the passengers can make other travel arrangements.