re: #426 Sionainn

What makes you think that the mother and the witness made this up about this man?

Read the whole thing I said. I don’t know either way. I have questions that need answered in a trial.

The biggest? How did this man get out of his seat and halfway down the aisle during final descent?

The second biggest? Since they got seats wrong what else did they get wrong? (Flight 721 is an airbus 320. It has 26 rows of seats.)

Why don’t we have an affidavit for the incident, at least for the language, from anyone in the seat to the side or in front of her?

Want a (made up just to answer your question) idea? Try this.

The accused is “genteel racist” - made it plain by implication and posture. And he did tell her to shut that damn baby up (but without the racist language). The woman, pissed, starts yelling “why’d you hit my baby?”. And the witness happens to be black (don’t know, making it for this line), and automatically supports the woman because she’s also black.

And because she was yelling and the man was a southerner and the standing man supported it, a lot of other passengers expressed sympathy.

You want my guess, he’s guilty. I think he is.

But it does not change my core statement. He should not be punished, have his life destroyed, on the accusation.