A Delta Air Lines flight bound for San Diego, California, was the site of a showdown between police and a disruptive Black woman in red. The embarrassing incident took place on Delta Flight 2038 at Detroit Metropolitan Airport before it took off for San Diego around 8 a.m. on Monday, Dec. 12, 2016.
Passenger Rene deLambert, who captured video of the encounter and posted it on YouTube, says she stormed past the gate agent and failed to check in “because she wasn’t an early boarder” before demanding overhead bin space.
According to a Delta spokesperson Erica Donerson, she was arrested for violation of airport ordinances, including failure to leave the aircraft, although she has not been formally charged.
Other passengers looked on as the woman was lying flat on her back as the White male officer dragged her down the carpeted aisle by her arms. They whispered, they laughed and others just were in utter shock. The captain can be heard in the video delivering his routine message of protocol and flight updates over the intercom.
Donerson also tells the media, she “would not comply with boarding and baggage check procedures.” And, “When officers arrived, Delta Air Lines stated the woman could not remain on board.
“Despite repeated requests by officers, the woman refused to leave the aircraft and had to be removed. She was arrested and charges are pending.”
“Police tackled her out of her seat and brought her to the ground. Not sure how she was subdued, some people speculated a taser,” Rene wrote in his blog, RenesPoints.
The flight was obviously delayed and took off at 8:30 a.m.
There is no word on injuries the passenger may have suffered, likely carpet burns.
Two weeks ago, Delta Air Lines apologized for failing to eject a Donald Trump supporter from one of its flights after he yelled at other passengers, calling some of the women on the plane “Hillary b – – – – – s.”
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Check out the video of the incident on the next page.
