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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Fri Feb 15, 2013, 08:43 PM Feb 2013

FBI: Man used racial slur before striking crying toddler on Delta flight. [View all]

FEBRUARY 15--After demanding that the mother of a crying toddler “shut that nigger baby up,” a male passenger allegedly slapped the 19-month-old across the face as a flight prepared to land in Atlanta last Friday evening, The Smoking Gun has learned.

The shocking February 8 incident aboard Delta Airlines Flight 721 resulted in Joe Rickey Hundley, 60, being charged with simple assault, according to a U.S. District Court affidavit. Hundley, seen at right, is president of an aircraft parts manufacturer headquartered in Hayden, Idaho.

In an interview, Hundley denied striking the toddler or using a racial slur, though he did acknowledge that he “asked the mother to quiet the child.” Hundley, who said he was traveling to Atlanta to visit a hospitalized relative, described himself as “distraught” on the flight, during which he said he consumed a single alcoholic drink.

As detailed by FBI Agent Daron Cheney, Hundley was traveling to Atlanta from Minneapolis in seat 28A on the MD-90 twin-engine jet. He was seated next to Jessica Bennett, who shared seat 28B with her son Jonah.

Bennett, 33, told investigators that the “aircraft was in final descent” to Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport when her child “started to cry due to the altitude change.” Bennett added that she “was trying to get [her son] to stop crying, but he continued.”

At this point, Bennett recalled, Hundley used the racial epithet as he told her to shut the child up. He then allegedly “turned around and slapped” the toddler in the face “with an open hand, which caused the juvenile victim to scream even louder.” The slap, Bennett said, “caused a scratch below [the child’s] right eye.”

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/baby-slapped-on-plane-571923

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This just entered on other thread riverbendviewgal Feb 2013 #1
Hate crimes against toddlers?!?!?!?! Holy fucking shit. nt ZombieHorde Feb 2013 #2
wow, this thread plus calling the PRes the N word thread, and the thread JI7 Feb 2013 #3
Slap my baby and call her a racial name and see what happens. Bluzmann57 Feb 2013 #4
I'm with you ~ Ms. goclark, goclark Feb 2013 #29
I tell you what atreides1 Feb 2013 #39
I would have jumped him Ilsa Feb 2013 #42
What's this big shot Captain of Industry doing riding in coach, anyhow? The Velveteen Ocelot Feb 2013 #5
Any independent witnesses hearing the racial epithet and seeing the toddler struck in the face? indepat Feb 2013 #6
The article seems to indicate an FBI agent was right next to the mom. Bucky Feb 2013 #7
I don't think the FBI agent was on the plane; The Velveteen Ocelot Feb 2013 #10
Yes. Read the whole Smoking Gun article. The Velveteen Ocelot Feb 2013 #8
Yes, you dummy: read the URL indepat Feb 2013 #9
Good Advice.. Cha Feb 2013 #15
I doubt if he's any of that. Hayden is a place on a lake in the woods. Cleita Feb 2013 #12
He probably makes airplane parts in his barn. n/t Cleita Feb 2013 #13
Hayden, Idaho is where the Aryan Nation was once headquartered. Cleita Feb 2013 #11
Isn't some other group starting a militia compound in Northern Idaho? Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2013 #16
There's a bunch of them. In Montana too. But these people really aren't locals, Cleita Feb 2013 #18
Put him on the no-fly list jsr Feb 2013 #14
Please reconsider this post mythology Feb 2013 #19
It's not cool to hit a baby either... HipChick Feb 2013 #20
It's never fun when someone asks you to reconsider your post, but please think about it. stevenleser Feb 2013 #21
Thank you, it takes a lot of class to do the right thing in that situation, and you clearly have a stevenleser Feb 2013 #23
No problemo jsr Feb 2013 #24
Editing is a sign of class Nevernose Feb 2013 #37
The picture of Jonah in the pumpkin patch is so cute. sheshe2 Feb 2013 #17
Oh my God...this is unbelievable Catherine Vincent Feb 2013 #22
LOL, life in prison for simple assault? n-t Logical Feb 2013 #25
Well...not really Catherine Vincent Feb 2013 #34
It is amazing how rude and stupid some people are. If I would have been sitting by him.... Logical Feb 2013 #35
Hate crime and a Fed charge obamanut2012 Feb 2013 #59
Small children should be put in the back......................... MRDAWG Feb 2013 #26
Yeah, but this guy HIT the kid..... AverageJoe90 Feb 2013 #27
How about you move then ajk2821 Feb 2013 #28
I'm with you ! ~ Adults should act like goclark Feb 2013 #30
like it's safer for your kids to sit on your lap dlwickham Feb 2013 #32
If I paid for 5 seats, I would be using them. PotatoChip Feb 2013 #51
5 tkts = 5 seats = 5 carry on luggage spaces - If that happens again get their full name , let them lunasun Feb 2013 #52
they make these things called ear plugs dlwickham Feb 2013 #31
Perhaps you should consider flying in private aircraft csziggy Feb 2013 #33
wow. the whole world has gotta adjust to you. that is the problem. it isnt always about you. nt seabeyond Feb 2013 #38
Yes, sometimes small children on airplanes can be annoying. The Velveteen Ocelot Feb 2013 #41
Go the fuck away cali Feb 2013 #48
I suggest you get yourself a jetpak so you can fly solo. City Lights Feb 2013 #57
This message was self-deleted by its author Horse with no Name Feb 2013 #36
His mother is white BTW... HipChick Feb 2013 #43
This message was self-deleted by its author Horse with no Name Feb 2013 #44
Wow you would not guess that by all the racist comments about the mother I have read... lunasun Feb 2013 #53
Maybe I missed that ~ the Mom was White goclark Feb 2013 #60
He's been arrested on concealed-weapon charges wtmusic Feb 2013 #40
This message was self-deleted by its author Horse with no Name Feb 2013 #45
As an aside, ellie Feb 2013 #46
Again ask to be moved ajk2821 Feb 2013 #49
I would have but the plane was full ellie Feb 2013 #50
I just called my newsroom... jmowreader Feb 2013 #47
The racial epithet, however despicable, SheilaT Feb 2013 #54
Racial slur? Trivial? I don't think so... HipChick Feb 2013 #55
I don't intend to be trivializing the racial slur. SheilaT Feb 2013 #56
I hope random people slap this man when he least expects it. Pisces Feb 2013 #58
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