Senator Rand Paul's son charged with assaulting flight attendant

[LetMyPeopleVote]

Put this asshole on a no fly list

Link to tweet

. - The son of U.S. Sen. Rand Paul is accused of assaulting a flight attendant during a trip from Kentucky to North Carolina.

The Charlotte Observer reported over the weekend that 19-year-old William Paul was charged with misdemeanor assault on a female by aggressive physical force. The paper had previously reported that he also was charged with underage drinking, disorderly conduct and being intoxicated and disruptive.

The newspaper quoted Lt. Shawn Crooks as saying all the charges against Paul were filed the day of the incident, Jan. 5.

[madashelltoo]

1. MISDEMEANOR??!!

Oh, Rand’s kid committed a misdemeanor. Your son or mine would’ve committed a f..ing felony. More bullshit. And they wonder why people keep raising hell.

[SunSeeker]

16. Right? I thought interfering with a flight crew was a felony.

[ProfessorGAC]

30. Not All

It can be a felony, but not all such charges are.
I looked it up back when this disruptive behavior started to get too common.
However, putting hands on any flight operations crew is a FELONY.
So, why was he only charged with the disruption misdemeanor? If he touched a flight attendant, that instantly rises to a felony.
It's not just this punk. They're simply not maxxing out the possible charges against these tools.

[SunSeeker]

31. Physically assaulting a flight attendant is, of course, a felony. Why did he get off lightly?

[ProfessorGAC]

33. Ya Got Me!

Now, this was 9 years ago, so there wasn't a rash of incidents that might require nipping with severe consequences.
If he did this in '21, he might have gotten smacked harder.

[Dorian Gray]

34. It happened in 2012

first of all. And he was probably pegged as a drunk and entitled kid, not somebody who was trying to take the flight down.

Knowing how douchey his dad is NOW doesn't help, but this is also an old story.

[ificandream]

2. No wonder Paul is against the no-fly list. LOL.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

5. I am also amused by this fact

[Talitha]

11. No kidding - - no shit.

Oh, btw - - fuck Paul.

[Cha]

20. lol yes.. btw!

[Cha]

19. I thought of thaat, too.. also

ol daddy Paul doesn't like the Flight Mask Mandate.

[Blue Owl]

3. Dickishness is the Paul family's dominant trait

[dalton99a]

4. Trash raised by trash

[RockRaven]

7. ... raised by trash.

Like Frederick to Fred Sr to Donnie Dumbass Sr.

Don't forget the psychopath grandfather who made the psychopath father.

[RockRaven]

6. Charges filed on Jan 5th... And kept quiet for 1.5 months.

But I'm sure justice will be done.

[Grokenstein]

8. Look at the year of the article, though.

2013. (An assault charge was added in 2015.)

[RockRaven]

10. That's my fault for assuming the tweet date matched the article date.

But it does explain why this sounded vaguely familiar.

[Dorian Gray]

35. Way back in 2013

So it's not been kept quiet for 1.5 months. Somebody just chose to share the story now.

[Lunabell]

9. The apples aren't falling far away from that tree.

Same deplorable, entitled ilk.

[ShazzieB]

12. Looks like little Billy Paul is a chip off the old blockhead!

The Charlotte Observer reported over the weekend that 19-year-old William Paul was charged with misdemeanor assault on a female by aggressive physical force.]

In the sense of being mean, snooty, and entitled, I mean. Don't know if his daddy ever actually assaulted a female.

[Emile]

32. He's got that same dumb look as his father, like no one is home!

[SunSeeker]

13. He's exactly the punk I would have expected Rand Paul to have raised. nt

[kirby]

14. 9 year old article!

[left-of-center2012]

15. This happened in 2013

9-year-old news story from CBS.
That's what the link says.

[SunSeeker]

17. But Rand Paul opposes disruptive passenger no fly lists NOW.

The tweet provides some information on why Rand might be taking that position.

[Cha]

18. 'cause look at his role model or

is that just a coincidence?

Why would he assault a Flight Attendant for cripe's sake?

Rt TY

[monkeyman1]

21. like power & think their crap don't stink !

[jmowreader]

22. It appears he was charged by the State of North Carolina

In NC, that probably is a misdemeanor.

Now for the fun part: because he did this on a commercial airliner, the Separate Sovereigns doctrine says the feds can also charge him with assaulting a flight crew member, and that's a felony with a 20-year maximum prison sentence.

[jimfields33]

28. I wonder what the statutes of limitation are. 9 years is along time ago.

I wouldn’t mind seeing the jerk having to relive it though in court.

[Joinfortmill]

23. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

[czarjak]

24. Caste of a pall?

[secondwind]

25. The apple 🍎 doesn't fall far from the tree.

[Trueblue1968]

26. #LockHimUp

[Norbert]

27. The fact that it happened 9 years ago is somewhat worse

when you figure assaulting flight attendants at that time was few and far between.

I am old school. A 'man' never hits a woman no matter what. He is scum raised by scum.

Oh but Hunter Biden...

[Emile]

29. How proud Rand must be!

[madinmaryland]

36. Too bad Rand Paul's never met Rand's son! Sounds like the son also needs a good asskicking.

Maybe Skittles can take care of his egregious behavior.

[stopdiggin]

37. The OP doesn't bother to inform how old this article

and incident is. If you want to draw a line between this and Rand Paul's position on 'no-fly' that's fine - but then do so.

[USALiberal]

38. FFS, this is a 10 year old story, self delete or update your title!