Family ejected from Frontier Airlines flight, passengers say due to 18 month old baby – about 15 cops responded to incident
Frontier Airlines said they cancelled a flight from Florida on Sunday after a “large group” of passengers refused to wear masks — but the family involved claims they were booted simply because of a maskless baby.
The fracas took place aboard flight 2878, which was set to depart Miami en route to LaGuardia Airport at 7 p.m. until the disagreement forced all passengers to deplane and reschedule a flight for the next morning.
“Multiple people, including several adults, were asked repeatedly to wear their masks and refused to do so,” the airline said in a statement Sunday night.
“Based on the continued refusal to comply with the federal mask mandate, refusal to disembark the aircraft and aggression towards the flight crew, local law enforcement was engaged.”
However, fellow passenger Hershey Greenbaum told The Post the child seemed to be the reason for the family’s removal.
“We were all on the plane when they [flight attendants] came on and saw the 18-month-old baby without a mask,” Greenbaum said.
In video footage of the incident, the father can be seen explaining that the child was under the age of two.
Greenbaum said other passengers came to the defense of the family and became “rowdy” when they were booted.
The parents told the attendants they would try to fit a covering on the baby, according to Greenbaum, but that not did not stop them from taking action.
“All the people on the plane were getting really mad and rowdy because, what are you going to do? It’s an 18-month old baby,” Greenbaum said.
“Most of them were saying ‘Don’t let them do this to you,’” Greenbaum said of the other passengers. “Most of the people were against it, Jewish or not Jewish, why are you picking on an 18-month-old kid?”
The company said: “To be clear, the issue did not stem from a child under the age of two.”
At least one passenger filmed part of the interaction, which was later posted to Twitter by the Orthodox Jewish Public Affairs Council.
Numerous passengers can be heard calling out the flight staff for what they believed to be an unjustified action.
“What are you accomplishing?” one person says.
“You’re gonna pay the consequences,” another passenger can be heard saying.
“This is Nazi Germany,” a third person shouts.
Greenbaum said about 15 police officers responded to the incident.
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Arkansas school shooting: Student reportedly shot on first day of in-person learning
A student was shot and killed at an Arkansas middle school early Monday on the first day that full-time classes resumed after months of coronavirus lockdown restrictions.
The incident at the Watson Chapel Junior High School in Pine Bluff forced the district into a new emergency lockdown, with one student dead and a second youngster in police custody, KARK-TV reported.
The victim was rushed to Arkansas Children’s Hospital by helicopter in “very serious condition,”, according to KATV-TV.
Police later said the teen had died from his wounds.
Pine Bluff Police Chief Kelvin Sergeant called the incident an “isolated and targeted” attack involving two students enrolled at the school.
Speaking at an afternoon briefing, Sergeant said police arrived at the school around 10 a.m. and found the wounded student in a hallway near the school office.
The alleged shooter, also 15, was found by police K-9 officers hiding behind a house nearby, the chief said.
“We don’t have a definite motive right now as to why the incident occurred,” Sergeant said. “However, we do believe this was a targeted incident as opposed to a random incident.”
No additional details were available about the youngster in custody, but the chief said charges are pending.
“There has been a shooting at the Watson Chapel Junior High,” the school district said on Facebook. “ALL campuses are on lock down. The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department and Pine Bluff Police Department are on site to control the situation.”
“This was an isolated incident and all students are safe at this time,” the district said. “The parent of the student hurt has been notified so if you have not been notified by the school your student is safe and secure.”
“The police are not letting anyone in and out of the buildings,” the post said. “You will not be allowed to come get your student at this time.”
According to KATV, the lockdown had been lifted by noon.
No further details were immediately available.
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Ohio mom arrested for allegedly driving over son, dumping body in river
An Ohio mother killed her 6-year-old son by driving over him at a wildlife area before dumping his body a day later in a river, according to police and a new report.
Brittany Gosney, 29, of Middletown, reported her son, James Robert Hutchinson, missing on Sunday, according to the Middletown Division of Police.
Upon further questioning, Gosney admitted what had happened, authorities said.
“They now say that James was killed in Preble County a few days ago,” police said. “The child’s body was brought back to Middletown, where they live, and later put into the Ohio River.”
Gosney admitted to driving to a wildlife area to abandon James, and then running over him when he attempted to get back in the car, according to court records obtained by WXIX.
Gosney “stated she picked the child up, put him back in the vehicle and drove back (to their home on Crawford Street) where she took the child in the house and placed him in an upstairs bedroom,” according to the criminal complaint.
The next day, she said, she drove to the Ohio River, where she left her son’s body in the water.
Gosney has been charged with murder, abuse of a corpse and tampering with evidence, according to cops.
Her boyfriend, James Hamilton, 42, was charged with abuse of a corpse and tampering with evidence, police said.
Cops were working with searchers to recover the body.
“The river is very high and treacherous, so we will not be disclosing the exact location in hopes of avoiding another tragic incident,” police said.
Two other children have been removed from the couple’s home, police said.
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Spanish rapper reportedly chops off roommate’s penis for gory video
A Spanish rapper is accused of hacking off his roommate’s penis with a 12-inch kitchen knife as part of a gruesome attempt to get attention on social media, according to reports.
Aaron Beltran allegedly made a deal with Andrew Breach, an Oxford-educated British teacher, to amputate his manhood — with Breach agreeing to pay a fee depending on how many times the video was shared on YouTube, the Independent reported.
The payout ranged from £173, or about $240, to a maximum of £2,164, or about $3,000, according to the report.
Beltran now faces four and a half years behind bars if convicted of carrying out the grisly act in Zaragoza, Spain, in March 2019, the newspaper said.
“On the afternoon of March 8, just before 7:15 p.m. when both men were in the victim’s bedroom, Andrew tied his pajama cord round the bottom of his penis to avoid hemorrhaging,” the indictment reads, the Sun reported.
“The accused, who was sat on a chair in front of him, cut his penis with a 12-inch kitchen knife which was never found because the accused got rid of it.”
A police officer told the court in eastern Spain that he found Breach, 35, who taught at a local language academy, bleeding heavily after the gory stunt.
Another officer said Breach had wanted to sever his penis because he did not feel like he was completely male.
“When interviewing the victim in hospital he told us the accused cut off his penis. Andrew said he did not feel 100 percent a man and wanted to get rid of his penis,” the cop told the court.
“He agreed on a deal with the accused to pay him €200 which would depend on how many views the video of the amputation received on YouTube. It was done on the basis of hits,” the cop added.
Surgeons managed to reattach the penis, which is now fully functional, according to the Independent.
Breach spent three weeks in the hospital and then returned to the UK.
Prosecutors admit the amputation was consensual but argue that Beltran still bears criminal responsibility.
Meanwhile, Breach claimed in court he had cut off his own penis, contradicting his sworn statement that Beltran was responsible.
“I cut off my own penis. I was unwell. It was myself,” he said, adding that he had felt pressure from police to blame his roommate. Police denied his claim.
Prosecutors have accepted that Breach suffers from gender dysphoria, the outlet reported.
Local reports around the time of the amputation said the two men drank four bottles of wine and took Valium to gather the courage to go through with it, the Sun reported.
Beltran, who spent four months in prison before being released on bail, goes by the artistic name Sanatorio del Atico — or Attic Sanatorium.
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