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Back in the '80s, Patricia Cornwall was best known for her roles on both Baywatch and Married... With Children under the stage name "Patty Breton", but she was also a Playboy model and NFL cheerleader. Now let's fast forward to 2021, where she's making national headlines for attacking a man on a Delta flight and getting arrested.
According to The Washington Post, the incident started when Cornwall couldn’t return to her seat after using the airplane bathroom. At this time, the flight attendants were serving drinks, the cart took up the aisle, so they asked her to temporarily sit in an empty seat.
She responded with, “What am I? Rosa Parks?”
That's when a male passenger told her “it was an inappropriate comment and that she ‘isn’t Black … this isn’t Alabama and this isn’t a bus.’” He then said, “Sit down, Karen.”
Instead of sitting down, she escalated the situation by calling him a slur of unsavory names, hitting the man in the face, and allegedly spitting on him while the plane full of passengers watched.
When the plane landed in Atlanta (like the elderly man said) Cornwall was arrested and has been charged with “assault by striking, beating, or wounding.” She could face up to a year in prison and up to a $100,000 fine if convicted.
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