- A girl at Atlanta airport was denied boarding on a Spirit Airways flight for being “too intoxicated.”
- She then slapped a gate agent, per a police report cited by native media.
- The lady was subsequently arrested and charged with easy assault, native outlet WSBTV reported.
A girl was arrested after she was stopped from boarding a Spirit Airways flight in Atlanta as a result of she was “too intoxicated” and slapped a workers member, in accordance with plenty of media stories.
The lady was indignant after being advised she would not be allowed to board a Spirit Airways flight at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Worldwide Airport Gate E-3 on Might 11, Fox 5 Atlanta reported.
She then reportedly slapped the gate agent within the face and tried to push her approach by boarding to get on the flight, per the information channel. One other native outlet, WSBTV, reported that an airport workers member advised police they noticed the girl punch the agent.
Officers had been dispatched after listening to {that a} girl was “making an attempt to push her approach by the gates and onto the jet bridge,” in accordance with an incident report by Atlanta Police Division cited by The Unbiased.
The lady had been turned away as a result of she was “too intoxicated,” per The Unbiased.
Bodycam footage and pictures launched by the police and posted by Fox 5 Atlanta exhibits a middle-aged girl, sporting a gray tank prime with denims, and a pink backpack.
Police might be seen detaining her within the clips, eradicating her backpack and a watch from her arms, and cuffing her fingers behind her again.
She was taken to Clayton County Jail, per Fox5. Whereas the gate agent was not severely harmed in the course of the incident, the girl was charged with easy assault, WSBTV reported.
Insider contacted Spirit Airways and Atlanta Worldwide Airport for remark concerning the incident, however didn’t instantly hear again outdoors of standard enterprise hours.
One other intoxicated Spirit Airways passenger needed to be bodily faraway from a flight by three cops after appearing aggressively on Might 26, a viral TikTok video with three million views confirmed.
The lady might be seen within the video strolling by the aircraft aisle, shouting, riling up different passengers, and arguing with them.
