Symone Sanders, a CNN political commentator and former press secretary for Sen. Bernie Sanders was detained by police after an outburst at LaGuardia Airport.
The 28-year-old commenter was reportedly asked to step out of line for a more detailed check. According to law enforcement, she reportedly refused, making “unreasonable noise” before cursing in front of passengers and young children.
Yesterday, I was violently arrested in the security screening line at LaGuardia airport. I was taken offsite & issued a summons for “disorderly conduct.” My attorney & I look forward to the opportunity to highlight this injustice & righting what we believe to be a profound wrong.
— Symone D. Sanders (@SymoneDSanders) April 13, 2018
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According to HotAir:
She was reportedly given a summons for disorderly conduct. What makes this story somewhat more interesting is that Sanders has a history of problems in airports. Last May she published a series of tweets describing having the police called after American Airlines officials said they felt threatened by her. Essence magazine wrote a story about the incident at the time titled “Flying While Black: American Airlines Called The Cops On Symone Sanders For Trying To Check In Luggage.”
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Welcome to the modern age; where getting in trouble for causing a disruption is now a radicalized issue.
Her own tweets in the “American Airlines” incident indicate that it was her own fault she had the police called on her. Sanders makes it clear that the police weren’t called on her for trying to check her luggage, but rather because she yelled at the gate agent.
.@AmericanAir officials literally called the police to come to the gate check area because the customer service officials were threatened.
— Symone D. Sanders (@SymoneDSanders) May 13, 2017
Hm – now why do you suppose those customer service officials felt threatened? Are we to ponder that it’s because they were all closeted racists (as Sanders would like us to believe), or because she was berating them? For anyone that’s seen Sanders in action over at CNN, it’s clear the latter option is infinitely more likely.
I don't understand how getting to the kiosk at 11:01 prevents me from printing a luggage tag for my 11:48 flight? It's just a luggage tag.
— Symone D. Sanders (@SymoneDSanders) May 13, 2017
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I'm tears because understand why American Airlines would call the police on me? https://t.co/cIgigC2Z1U
— Symone D. Sanders (@SymoneDSanders) May 13, 2017
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I’m going to go out on a limb an speculate that the average American has the police called on them approximately zero times at an airport during the course of their lives – so it isn’t exactly a testament to Sanders’ credibility that this has happened to her twice within one year.
Do you think she deserves the charges? Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below!
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Allow the airlines to put her on their do not fly list.
Some people play that race card like a weapon. This person is a perfect example. She looks like she s a professional wrestler and likely does intimate people. And of course since she works for a news outlet she believes that gives her some special privilege. She should be reined in by her employer since she’s and embarrassment to them.
JUST CONSIDER THE SOURCE OF THE PROBLEM. DUH !!! I REST MY CASE. IT REMINDS ME OF ANY COP, THEY “HAVE TO GET IN THE LAST WORD, EVEN WHEN IS DUMBER THAN A BOX OF AUNT JEMIMA PANCAKE MIX, A BIG BOX,
I was thinking, I’ll bet she….then I saw her photo. Yep.
Hell, I can see why they felt threatened. I’d be afraid of being bitten in half ! This woman has a mouth like a Hippo and it’s always open ! I could easily identify her tonsils !!!!
Just refuse to prove her service.
I am now almost 66 years old and I have never ONCE been in the position at ANY airport of having had someone call the police on me for disorderly conduct. Symone feels ENTITLED, as a BLACK “member of the press”, to privileges mere mortals would NOT be accorded. Maybe her parents failed to apply the “BOARD of education” to her “SEAT of learning” often enough.
If she believes that she deserves to make her own set of rules, then she deserves to be arrested. My 70 year old female relative, as well as, other men and women who were chosen randomly for an extra security check. No one refused and no one was arrested. Simone, it’s called playing by the rules. If you want you own set of rules go to a country that works that way. Let us know how that works out for you. What a jerk.
Just another rich liberal elitist who “feels” she is above the rules made for us “little people”.
I have never heard of this person before, she is not an entitled person that can do these kind of things and expect to get away with it. Throw her sorry carcass in the slammer.
…AND throw away the key!
Put the B-otch in jail!
Allow the airlines to put her on their do not fly list.
Some people play that race card like a weapon. This person is a perfect example. She looks like she s a professional wrestler and likely does intimate people. And of course since she works for a news outlet she believes that gives her some special privilege. She should be reined in by her employer since she’s and embarrassment to them.
JUST CONSIDER THE SOURCE OF THE PROBLEM. DUH !!! I REST MY CASE. IT REMINDS ME OF ANY COP, THEY “HAVE TO GET IN THE LAST WORD, EVEN WHEN IS DUMBER THAN A BOX OF AUNT JEMIMA PANCAKE MIX, A BIG BOX,
I was thinking, I’ll bet she….then I saw her photo. Yep.
Hell, I can see why they felt threatened. I’d be afraid of being bitten in half ! This woman has a mouth like a Hippo and it’s always open ! I could easily identify her tonsils !!!!
Just refuse to prove her service.
I am now almost 66 years old and I have never ONCE been in the position at ANY airport of having had someone call the police on me for disorderly conduct. Symone feels ENTITLED, as a BLACK “member of the press”, to privileges mere mortals would NOT be accorded. Maybe her parents failed to apply the “BOARD of education” to her “SEAT of learning” often enough.
If she believes that she deserves to make her own set of rules, then she deserves to be arrested. My 70 year old female relative, as well as, other men and women who were chosen randomly for an extra security check. No one refused and no one was arrested. Simone, it’s called playing by the rules. If you want you own set of rules go to a country that works that way. Let us know how that works out for you. What a jerk.
Just another rich liberal elitist who “feels” she is above the rules made for us “little people”.
I have never heard of this person before, she is not an entitled person that can do these kind of things and expect to get away with it. Throw her sorry carcass in the slammer.
Put the B-otch in jail!
…AND throw away the key!