Man Slaps 19-month old on Delta Flight and Calls Him The N-Word

[RyFo18]

Joe Rickey Hundley, AGC Aerospace & Defense ex-worker, turns himself in after Delta flight debacle
Posted: 02/20/2013

By: CNN Staff
An Idaho man accused of uttering a racial slur and slapping a crying 19-month-old boy on a Delta Air Lines flight turned himself in to authorities Tuesday.

Joe Rickey Hundley of Hayden, Idaho, surrendered in that state, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Atlanta. He was charged with assaulting a minor, stemming from a February 8 incident aboard the Delta flight to Atlanta.

Hundley was released on bail.

His attorney, Marcia Shein, has said her client is being unfairly portrayed.

"This has escalated into a racist issue and I want to be clear he is not a racist," Shein said.

She also said that Hundley is dealing with unspecified issues.

According to documents filed in U.S. District Court in Atlanta last week, the boy's mother, Jessica Bennett, 33, of Minnesota and her son were seated in Row 28, Seat B on Delta Flight 721 that originated in Minneapolis.

She spent part of the flight in the rear of the plane to get away from Hundley, who she said smelled like alcohol and was slurring his speech, according to John Thompson, the attorney for the child's family.

As the plane began its descent into Atlanta, the boy began to cry because of the altitude change and his mother tried to soothe him.

Hundley, who was seated next to the mother and son, allegedly told her to "shut that (N-word) baby up."

Hundley then turned around and slapped the child in the face with an open hand, which caused him to scream even louder, an FBI affidavit said.

The boy suffered a scratch below his right eye.

Other passengers on the plane assisted Bennett, and one of them heard the slur and witnessed the alleged assault, the affidavit said.

Shein said that even if her client did use the slur, it does not make him a racist.

CNN's MaryLynn Ryan, Ric Ward and Michael Martinez contributed to this report.

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[Johnny Vegas]

gotta love Idahoans. Nothing but racists and dry counties over there. He was anxious to get to his clan meeting.

[KC native]

Originally Posted by Cannibal

Then kill yourself.

Q

[Sorter]

Pretty ****ed up.

[Cannibal]

Originally Posted by KC native

Q

Saw you beat me to it after I posted it.

[crazycoffey]

Originally Posted by loochy

Actually I was trolling

I'm shocked, guess there is a first time for everything

[HonestChieffan]

Originally Posted by Chief_For_Life58

(N-word) baby? was it any good?

They were great. Lil licorish things. Im sure interwebs would have the info. So non PC im ashamed. They were a penny candy

[loochy]

Originally Posted by crazycoffey

I'm shocked, guess there is a first time for everything

of all the things to troll over, race trolling is among the best and most productive

[Lumpy]

Originally Posted by Inmem58

Just decked?



Man, I might have psychopathic tendencies.

I probably would have punched him in the dick, too. For fun.

[WV]

Yeah the whole plane would've found out quickly if there was an air marshall on that flight because I would have went pyscho on that old bastard.

[Brock]

Originally Posted by HonestChieffan

Used to be a candy called that. Times are changing

Hopefully because the people who called it that are dying.

[HonestChieffan]

Originally Posted by Brock

Hopefully because the people who called it that are dying.

Every day.

Read on one site they were morphed into Nibs and they still make them.

[Dave Lane]

Originally Posted by gblowfish

When the lawyer says "my client is not a racist" that means "he's a racist."

What's really really cool about America right now is that there are no racists left. There are all gone, racism, finished.

Just ask the racists they will be happy to tell you.