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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.
[Jessica] 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.
Read more at http://wonkette.com/501693/idaho-man-slaps-black-baby-on-plane-is-not-a-racist#ubC6TgYC2MV47o48.99
radicalliberal
(907 posts)I bet Hundley is a Republican.
Electric Monk
(13,869 posts)proud2BlibKansan
(96,793 posts)But thanks for letting us know.