American Airlines Passenger Melt Down

Airline travel is challenging, even for long time business travelers. The demographic shift in passengers and discounted airfares means your chances of encountering a traveling nut case are pretty damn high. 

Purchasing a "First Class" ticket might protect you from the barroom brawls in coach but not from the deranged idiot on your next Charlotte to Baltimore flight.

Yesterday, American Airlines Flight 1223 arrived in Charlotte only 4 minutes late and promptly found a gate and began the process of deplaning passengers. 

First Class followed by coach passengers, smoothly exited the aircraft and within minutes they were on their way to connecting flights or baggage claim. 

A quick clean up and the American Airlines Airbus 321 would be ready for the 3:05 return flight to Baltimore. 

Except Inside the empty plane seated in row 23 is a lone passenger, who is now refusing to exit the aircraft. When American employees tried to "assist" her out of her seat she reportedly went into meltdown mode.

It took 3 CMPD Officers, 2 Medics, 1 Clergy, and 6 American Airlines employees 50 minutes to talk the young woman into departing the aircraft.

American 2411 departed fifty minutes late without further incident.

As for the passenger apparently she was "scared" but finally exited the aircraft willingly or somewhat under her own power as she was strapped to a narrow wheelchair her arms and legs bound but not in handcuffs or a straightjacket and apparently she was not arrested. Medic was providing her with oxygen, maybe to keep her calm?

What a mess. 

Too Fast Too Furious? (The One Who Got Away)

 Ask anyone around Charlotte about "Street Racing" and they will tell you it is out of control.

Last weekend's Southpark "take over" of Fairview and Park Roads lasted a full hour. Dozens of calls to 911 with no response from CMPD. 

CMPD tells local media that they were on the scene 14 minutes after the calls came in. But CMPD sources tell CP and Meckburbia that they've been told to "stand down". In other words No pursuits No arrests.

Need proof?

Doing donuts Uptown just a few blocks from CMPD Headquarters and surely you'll get busted?

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Or maybe not. Seems the no pursuit no arrest order to stand down is true.

But CMPD tells local media that's not true. There also no serial killer targeting Black women. 

Street Racing In Charlotte? No Way!

From the local talking heads at WSOC last night:

Several residents in SouthPark witnessed street racing and stunts late Friday night at the intersection of Tyvola and Park roads.

Here's the news story at WSOC.(Yes I know its painful to deal with the endless pop ups and video ads).

Serena Battista watched it happen from her condo balcony. There were cars doing doughnuts, drifting, screeching tires and the noises of loud engines and horns.

“It was insane, and I wanted them to go away so I could go to bed,” Battista said. “It was literally a free-for-all,” Battista said. “Pretty much just havoc everywhere.”

Battista said that she saw hundreds of cars blocking off the intersection and people standing in the street, which caused a traffic jam.The street takeover lasted about an hour between about midnight and 1 a.m.

“It’s very irresponsible,” she said. “That should have been dealt with especially, because this is such a busy residential neighborhood.”

Another resident emailed Channel 9 to say that she called police but had to wait four minutes while on hold with 911.

Officers responded to the intersection well after the crowd had dispersed, she said.

“There were, like seven people that said they called, and I know the neighborhood across the street, there were people who called, as well,” she said.

Battista said there was more chaos when the crowds and cars finally left.

“Nobody paid attention to the traffic lights,” Battista said. “There could have been countless accidents. People were going whatever way they wanted to and I saw almost three of them (collide).”

Channel 9 sent the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department a series of questions about the incident and has not heard back.

Whoa this seems to be news to WSOC? But Charlotte's street racing scene is and has been out of control. 

CMPD's policy is still hands off never mind the end result of doing just that on "The Ford" two years ago when Jamaa Cassell, Christopher Gleaton, Kelly Miller and Dairyon Stevenson died in the shooting.

CMPD Officers were told to "stand down" after a Juneteenth  after a block party on Beatties Ford Road. Police say 150 rounds were fired into a crowd of 400 people in the early-morning hours of June 22, 2020.

Cedar's Take: Personally I love street racing. However, CMPD's unwillingness to enforce traffic laws is just stunning.

A Sad Tale A Mother's Pain and The Liberal Media

A local Charlotte News Operation led the other day tells a sad story of a mother's pain:

A Charlotte mother is demanding justice three years after her son was shot and killed.

20-year-old Darnel Mills was a passenger in a car that police say was driven by 44-year-old Kehlan Johnson.  (Other reports say Mills was driving when Johnson shot him in the head) 

Authorities say Johnson ran away from the scene right after the shooting, but later turned himself into police.  Mills died from his injuries 9 days later.

Kehlan Johnson Photo Courtesy of MCSO 

Now, three years after his death, Mills’ mother has learned the suspect in her son’s murder has been offered a deal by the district attorney’s office.  An 8 year prison sentence.

“They let people out on bond that shouldn’t be on bond, repeat offenders.  This is my son.  You’re telling me I can’t fight for my son?  Even if we go to trial and we lose, I fought for my son,” says Tomaceeta Hampton, Mills’ mother.

Arrest warrants show Johnson has an extensive criminal history.  He was sentenced to 65 months in jail back in 1999 for robbery with a dangerous weapon.  Mills’ mother says the DA’s office offered him a deal after Johnson underwent several mental evaluations.

Johnson is expected to be sentenced in November. 

CP's take:

Sad indeed once again life on the street in Charlotte is cheap. Leave it to liberals to "spin" this story.

Johnson has remained in the custody of MCSO since his 2019 arrest. But dig a little deeper and Tomaceeta Hampton's son wasn't exactly a "good boy".

Darnel Mills was a wanna be gangbanger, his arrest in 1998 AWDWIKISI and discharging a weapon into an occupied dwelling or vehicle, and mugshot highlight his lifestyle as much as his face tats. 

and 1999 Intimidating Witness Felony Conspiracy conviction doesn't help the case.

Both arrests and the conviction paint him like his mug shot and give the impression of anything but a good boy.

Johnson's trial date for the murder of Mills is set on November 18th, 2022. CP expects the judge to accept the plea deal and that Johnson will serve another five years in jail before being released on Charlotte citizens once again.

So is this justice?

Just A Reminder How Fast Things Can Go Ugly

Warning: The Above Video Contains Graphic Footage. 

This camera video shows Decatur Police Officers and a Macon County Sheriff's Deputy conducting a traffic stop just after midnight on October 12, 2022. 

Officers upon approaching the vehicle notice a weapon in the seat with Jamontey O. Neal. As Officers try to remove Neal from the vehicle he pulls the gun on them and fires the weapon striking one Officer several times and another officer twice. 

The videos released by the Decatur Police, 10 in all, show the 32-year-old Neal opening fire at close range range in the early morning traffic stop.

He had repeatedly refused commands to get out of the car and opened fire with one of two guns he had within his vehicle. 

The entire encounter lasts less and 90 seconds.

Decatur Sgt. Tim Wittmer's BWC shows him waiting letting his junior officer deal with the subject until he senses the threat level is too high. The video clip starts as he approaches the suspect vehicle. What he does next, likely saved the other officer's life.

Warning: The Above Video Contains Graphic Footage. 

Once again in slow motion provided by the Decatur Police Department:

Warning: The Above Video Contains Graphic Footage. 

Just a reminder from CP - Let's be careful out there.

More Than 100 Victims In Charlotte

100 in Charlotte alone, not even looking past the city limits. 

Add Gaston, Union, York, Cabarrus and Lancaster Counties (Meckburbia) and you have more than 150 in the past 12 months. 

The Murder of Ahylea Willard A Culture of Violence

The murder of Ahylea Willard showcases the casual manner in which kids and adults in Charlotte's African American Community view shootings.

Early Sunday morning Ahylea Willard was found by several people that lived at the Heritage Park Apartments. Video that has since been taken down shows multiple people on Facebook Live gathering around Ahylea's lifeless body. Oh my God a dead body shouts one bystander, another is laughing, then joking about her blood still being wet.

The screen grab from FaceBook live apparently shows the victim lying in grass behind her apartment.

The people (kids and adults) around her body were conspiring to steal the gold belt and gold jewelry she was wearing.  A bystander can be heard saying "I'm about to get gloves and take her jewelry and belt" as they dance laughing around her lifeless corpse.  

This is the audio only it starts after a short delay. Warning Graphic Content

To no surprise, when police arrived on scene, Ahylea's jewelry was gone.

A culture of violence, an accepted way of life in the hood.