Chris Christie's niece bites officers, injures 6, at NOLA airport

[Bucky]

source: Chris Christie's niece kicked off New Orleans plane, injured 6 deputies, officials say:

After getting forced off an airplane for asking passengers who appeared to her to be Latino whether they were drug mules, a niece of former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie bit, kicked and spit on Jefferson Parish sheriff's deputies trying to detain her on Thanksgiving Day at Louis Armstrong International Airport, authorities said.

Shannon Epstein, 25, boarded the Spirit Airlines flight to New Jersey on Nov. 24 at about 6 a.m., and asked a family who were near her and whom she perceived to be Latino if they were "smuggling cocaine," said Capt. Jason Rivarde, a Sheriff's Office spokesperson. Airline workers requested Epstein be removed from the plane as she became increasingly irate, and the plane, which had started to taxi to the runway, returned to the gate, Rivarde said Friday.

When deputies arrived, Epstein refused to exit the jet bridge into the terminal, Rivarde said. When they tried to arrest her, she became "extremely combative," Rivarde said.

Six deputies hurt: In the scuffle, she injured six deputies, biting one on the arm and breaking the skin, and kicking another in the groin, Rivarde said. They were treated there by paramedics.


Read morel: https://www.nola.com/news/crime_police/chris-christies-niece-bites-officers-at-new-orleans-airport/article_592e7ee2-728d-11ed-9b91-9345a9dda9b2.html

I wonder if Chris Christie is having his family beat up police for doing their jobs as a way of appealing to pro-Jan6 voters in the Republican base.

[TheBlackAdder]

1. What a keeper.

[AkFemDem]

2. Even I'm not gonna blame someone for what their

Grown adult niece does.

I mean, Caroline Biden ring a bell?

[VMA131Marine]

3. Apparently she was released on $10,000 bail

Which, if you’re going to have cash bail, doesn’t seem like a lot for someone with her likely resources.

[Blue Owl]

4. Yowza, what a monster!

[druidity33]

5. Where's the mug shot? nt.

[Hortensis]

6. I found 1 image claimed to be of her, in ibtimes of India,

which seems a little strange. I noticed one paper said a relationship to Christie has not been confirmed, though the lack of photos on line might support her claim of powerful connections.

The pic showed a young, ordinarily pretty and pleasant looking female with brown hair.

[ecstatic]

7. Spirit airlines?

Lol. Although I've flown with them before and their safety presentation is laugh out loud hilarious.

I hope the airline workers sue her into oblivion.