Since the start of the pandemic, we've seen countless videos of
confrontations on planes where there's an anti masker and
usually, you know who the the anti masker is and who's not.
In this situation there was a pro masker with the mask off punching grandpa in
the face.
We have the full explanation.
But without further ado, I wanna play for you,
the video that you might have seen flying around out there, take a look.
>> Yes, you are.
[CROSSTALK].
>> Do you want the priests on the ground you're going to jail?
[CROSSTALK].
>> I won't put my mask on when you put your mask on.
>> At least she was negotiating there at the end,
she was trying to negotiate a peace.
Jake first we have the full information about who she is and what went down,
what inspired this back and forth.
But first reactions to the video.
>> Yeah so look, we're knee deep, neck deep in the culture wars, right?
So you don't have your mask on, that means you have a certain identity and
the other person has a different identity.
So now we fight, right?
And that's what happens all across America.
And the media has gotten us to hate one another, right?
And look, honestly we were a part of that too,
because we've got to fight back against the other side.
And a lot of democrats, 99% of democrats lay down and
let the Republicans run all over them.
So we gotta fight back.
But it does lead to nonsense like this.
This is insane.
The person at fault here is not the one that seems to be ostensibly on our side
telling the guy to mask up.
She's definitely wrong.
So unlike other parts of the media, we are actually willing to tell you things that
are true even if it looks like the person is on our side, it doesn't matter.
Okay you're not on our side by the way, if you're telling someone to mask up and
you don't have your mask on.
Like that's right there instantly you're a jackass.
That makes no sense.
And I'm not gonna abide by complete irrationality,
yelling at people at the top of your lungs is spitting on them to mask up while
you're not mask and spitting on them.
That's insane and totally intolerable.
She should definitely be arrested and by the way, I'll go further.
I don't know why the guy didn't have his mask on and I don't care.
I might care if I had my mask on and we're in a different context, right?
But people say no, he shouldn't curse and shouldn't call her terrible things.
Look, you got a crazy person in your grill.
I don't give a damn if you say things that are quote unquote inappropriate.
So right now Brett I'm waiting for more information, but I gotta scored 100 and
nothing against her.
>> I do wanna point out that like I did not expect gramps to call her Karen.
Like I didn't expect the vernacular to make it there.
But it did and I wanna say way to go grandpa or
where I keep calling him grandpa because we don't know his name.
RTW is what he's referred to in all the reports.
But this guy, it's just all I'm thinking is that as a result of
this is I do not want to get in a plane in the next three years,
because everybody seems to be so on edge.
I feel horrible for the flight attendants.
A lot of flight attendants are in really, really precarious positions for
their own health where they have to, I mean I heard yesterday that
there's like communications from headquarters at various airlines
where they're saying like if you've been exposed to someone with COVID,
if you don't have any symptoms like you gotta go work.
You don't get time off to go get a test, there is no help that you're getting.
And meanwhile, like the CEO of delta is telling the CDC,
you guys need to cut down how much time people have off.
I feel horrible for everyone who has to work the flight as everybody is like,
I feel your instinct is when something like this goes down.
I hate that this is someone's workplace and they have to endure this.
But let's get to the details of what happened according to the report.
The woman was arrested.
The man per the complaint told authorities that Cornwall, the woman made
the a rosa parks remark to a flight attendant while returning to the bathroom.
Okay, we'll get to what that remark was in a second.
The flight attendant asked Cornwall to find an open seat until beverage
circuit service was completed.
The complaint said.
Now Cornwall responded to the flight attendant quote, what am I Rosa parks?
The man believed Cornwall's comment was inappropriate and he responded to
Cornwall that she quote isn't black, this isn't Alabama and this isn't a bus.
I don't know what airline it was on because it might have been an Airbus.
But when the flight landed, Cornwall was arrested and charged for the assault.
Here's part of the Atlanta police Department statement.
The disturbance led to the injury of fellow passengers and
delta employees based on the statements gathered, invisible evidence
officers detained miss Cornwall and contacted the on call FBI agent.
FBI agents responded into custody of Ms Cornwall.
So she said something like about being discriminated against because she's rosa
parks because she was told to go to the back of the plane essentially.
Jake whose side you're on.
>> Now I'm in favor of her being double arrested.
Your rosa parks no, you are no rosa parks.
I mean you saw that video when we showed it again.
I mean she's got her hand cocked like this ready to punch
a guy who was considerably appears to be considerably older than her, right?
>> She spits on him.
>> And she spits on him and she slaps him.
I mean there is no ands ifs or buts that this is not even close.
And honestly I guess like the way the cultural wars break out obviously have no
idea of their personal politics and my guess is that it probably gets
confusing like which side they're on and which issues, etc.
And I can't perfectly tell.
But ostensibly she's on the you should wear masks side and
he's maybe presumably on that you shouldn't wear masks side.
And so that's why I say presumably we would be on her side of
the divide in the culture wars, but not if you're not actually on our side,
you don't wear the mask and you assault people,
which immediately means you're not an actual progressive.
You can't conduct a battle of ideas and you get into something physical.
That's insane.
So there's just a ton of reasons why this is so out about.
>> She said he was drinking and eating or something.
Maybe he was, maybe he wasn't, but it is insane because the one
fact of the culture wars, no matter what side someone's on
is just the overall climate of discourse in America has so
many people convinced of one thing and it's that they're right.
Half the people are wrong, but
all the same people believe what they believe themselves.
And so they look around and they're kind of taking stock of who they think is
saying, they're making wild assumptions of everyone and then I and
then they they're basically concluding that I could spit on this man and
not get in trouble for it in a plane.
That's her thing.
She wants him to face consequences.
Meanwhile she's swinging her hands and
spitting on an elderly guy who we all know, the elderly were
essentially like the most vulnerable to dying from this thing.
>> Yeah, so Karen is usually used against right wingers who want
to call the manager on a black guy.
But it's not always racial and it's not always on a black guy and
they're not apparently they're not always right wingers.
Because I don't know again what her politics is, but if she's pro mask,
maybe she's a left wing Karen.
But she's definitely Karen in then she feels entitled.
I feel entitled to get you to do what I want and
I feel entitled to punch you in the face and spit on you and
have no consequences because I matter and you don't.
Now, as progresses, we hate it when the right wing does that to us,
we certainly should not do it back to them.
Everyone obviously matters.
I hope we can at least still agree to that, but I'm not positive.
And yeah, this is just and we show this to you because unfortunately it is an extreme
case, but it is emblematic as well.
Violence on the flights have gone up tremendously.
5,779 unruly passenger incidents already this year, way up from last year.
72% of the incidents are over mass.
So we are fighting this cultural war very literally.
And we're fighting it in the skies as well,
which is kind of a dangerous place to fight it.
So yes, we need to engage the battle of ideas if we're on the left,
we can't shirk away from a ideological fight.
But making it physical is insane for everyone involved.
>> Yeah. And this is like Delta's position on it.
It's, you read the stats.
They are undeniable that there's been an uptick in these incidents graphic five.
This is Delta airlines statements.
Situation like these are rare for the vast majority of our customers.
And Delta has zero tolerance for unruly behavior at our airports and
aboard our aircraft.
Vast majority of the customers, yes.
But it's becoming more and more common when you fly these so
called friendly skies where let's face it,
everybody would be miserable in a plane if it weren't a pandemic on.
Everyone always self medicate with alcohol and alcohol.
If you are the least bit frustrated a lot of people they act out in that
situation and it's really rough.
>> Okay, super last thing, the lines are all getting blurred guys,
because there are absurd rules with.
So you have to wear the mask going into a restaurant and
then you could take it off immediately one foot later.
It makes no sense.
Let's just acknowledge that.
And if somebody is frustrated with that rule, that doesn't mean they're a right
winger or a Trump supporter, you don't know exactly where people stand.
Stop making assumptions as well.
I know it's near impossible, but
at some point we have to be decent to again to one another.