A Southwest passenger was filmed punching a flight attendant. She was charged with two felonies.
Just to be clear, the passenger, not the flight attendant, was charged with two felonies.
A Southwest passenger was filmed punching a flight attendant. She was charged with two felonies.
By Julian Mark
Today at 6:36 a.m. EDT
As Southwest Flight 700 was making its final descent into San Diego International Airport in May, Vyvianna Quinonez did what airplane passengers are repeatedly told not to do: She pulled down her tray table and unbuckled her seat belt, prosecutors say.
After a flight attendant reminded Quinonez to stow away her tray table, buckle her seat belt and wear her mask properly, Quinonez became defiant, according to a federal complaint filed Wednesday. She pushed the flight attendant, grabbed her hair and repeatedly punched her in the face, the complaint says.
The flight attendant was taken to the hospital after landing. Three of her teeth were chipped, including two that had to be replaced by crowns, prosecutors say. Her left eye was bruised and swollen, and a cut under her eye required four stitches. On her right forearm was a finger-shaped bruise.
Quinonez, 28 at the time of incident, has now been charged with two federal felonies: assault resulting in serious injury and interference with a flight’s crew members and attendants. The first charge carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison, while the second is punishable by as many as 20.
Quinonez has been ordered to appear before a judge on Sept. 17, according to court documents. She initially told authorities she acted in self-defense, the complaint states.
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By Julian Mark
Julian Mark is a reporter on The Washington Post's Morning Mix team. Before joining The Post, he covered housing and policing for Mission Local in San Francisco. Twitter https://twitter.com/badjujusf
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TFG, plus millions of RELIGIOUS FREAKS, QANON assholes, retired veteran terrorists, and NOW a Supreme Court! 
Sarandon LOVES the Trump Revolution. It's what Sarandon wanted. Just LOOK at how giddy and animated she is... at that time she could barely contain her excitement at the horrors that await us. She must be absolutely ORGASMIC now!
That the RW's was far, far more powerful and advanced than the left's?
Or was she aware and preferred that possibility to no revolution at all? That is the case for some, and it's common for FW and RW extremists to ally against the mainstream majorities that block them.
Germany's socialist and fascist revolutionaries coming together in the far-right National Socialist German Workers' Party to seize power is only one of many examples. Not all knew that's what they were doing, of course, although when Hitler had the socialist leaders executed and purged maybe it was a clue. For some anyway. 
is just something most hanging on the left fringe are prone to, just as most among the far right are wired to intractable distrust and rejection of other races. Traits baked into the types.
As for the rest, I really don't know how she thinks. Sure, she may be perfectly aware of what she's doing. Or not. We know what these people say about why they do what they do. Doesn't mean she really knows why or that she even witnessed the high-speed train crash in her own head between her claimed beliefs and her actions. She may have been out to lunch at the time.
But what's the real difference between a LWer who throws progressivism to the far right to destroy, all the while remaining a True Believer in progressive ideals, and a RWer who determinedly spreads deadly disease while still seeing herself as heroically "pro life"? It's the similarities, including who they're both opposing, that are overwhelming.
What I don't understand is why so many decent and sincere people didn't clue in that many of the more aggressively hostile and/or dishonest types among the LW and RW populist movements of 2016, and still now in 2021, had and have so much in common.
