Racial Turbulence: White Man Assaults Black Infant & his White Mother aboard Delta Flight - says "f***ing nigger"
Don't Blame it on the Alcohol From [HERE] and [HERE] A white man slapped a crying Black baby on board an Atlanta-bound Delta flight on February 8.
The flight departed from Minneapolis and as it neared its destination, the baby began crying. Racist suspect, Joe Rick Hundley of Idaho, also on the flight, was annoyed by the crying and screamed at the child’s mother using racial slurs and then slapped the baby in the face.
Hundley is the president of Unitech Composites and Structures (phone number 800-775-0861), an aircraft component fabrication company. His LinkedIn profile also lists him as the group vice president of AGC Aerospace & Defense.
The child’s mother, Jessica Bennett, 33, described the brutal and sudden attack saying the slap was hard enough to leave a scratch under the child’s right eye. Bennett and her husband (in photo) are both white. Their adopted son is Black.
She was traveling to a family funeral with her infant son. The boy was sharing her seat on the plane in accordance with Delta's Infant in Arms policy when 60-year-old Joe Rickey Hundley sat next to her.
As Hundley took his seat, Bennett said she noticed immediately that he had been drinking and was intoxicated, describing his speech as "slurred." She added that he soon began behaving rudely toward her and the flight attendants while consuming a number of alcoholic drinks. Bennett said his behavior was so intolerable she was forced to leave her seat and stand in the back of the plan with her son in her arms for much of the flight, only returning once the plane began to land.
As the plane descended, the boy began to cry. Bennett stated she was trying to soothe the boy when Hundley said, "Fucking Nigger."
Unable to believe what she had heard, Bennett said she asked Hundley what he said. Before responding, Bennett said Hundley fell toward her, hitting her cheek with his head while putting his mouth near her ear. She said he again uttered the profane racial epithet.
Next, Bennett said Hundley slapped the boy near his eye, causing him to bleed and cry loudly. Bennett said she feared what he might do next, especially since no flight attendants were nearby at the time; however, a passenger who overheard Hundley speaking came by to investigate.
White media believe alcohol is the problem here, not white supremacy/racism.
Bennett said that a Good Samaritan witnessed the assault, and a United States Air Marshal aboard the flight soon approached her and said the matter would be investigated upon landing. After she disembarked, Bennett gave multiple statements to authorities. It has also been reported that others on board the flight heard Hundley say, "Shut that n------ baby up," before the incident.
The FBI investigated the incident and charged Hundley with simple assault in federal court in connection with the on-flight incident. The maximum penalty is a year in prison.
It was later learned that the 60 year old man has a 2007 charge on his record for public intoxication and carrying a concealed weapon.
Al Haase, president and chief executive of AGC Aerospace and Defense, Composites Group – Unitech’s parent company – said the firm was taking the matter seriously. “In accordance with our company’s personal conduct policy, we have suspended the employee pending investigation,” Haase said in a statement.
A statement [HERE] on their website says,
“Reports of the recent behavior of one of our business unit executives while on personal travel are offensive and disturbing. We have taken this matter very seriously and worked diligently to examine it since learning of the matter on Friday afternoon. As of Sunday, the executive is no longer employed with the company."
“We wish to emphasize that the behavior that has been described is contradictory to our values, embarrassing and does not in any way reflect the patriotic character of the men and women of diverse backgrounds who work tirelessly in our business.”
Bennett said the incident left a great deal of emotional trauma inside her family that goes far beyond the physical pain of the slap. Describing Hundley's comment as "racist and hateful," she said her son has now become apprehensive of strangers. In fact, the two of them could barely bare the return flight home, Bennett said.