A model and star of "The Bay Watch" hit an elderly passenger on a flight
A former Playboy cheerleader and model who also starred in series like "Bay Watch" and "Married Plus" made headlines in the US - after a 70-year-old man was severely beaten during a fight over face masks on a flight
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The former Playboy model, who even starred in several episodes of the hit series "The Bay Watch" in the 90s and of "Married Plus," Patricia Cornwall, allegedly hit a 70-year-old passenger during an argument over face masks while on a Delta flight.
TMZ reported that the incident involving the model and former cheerleader of the Los Angeles Raiders football team, now 51, occurred during a flight from Tampa, Florida to Atlanta on Dec. 23.
In a video that went viral, Cornwall, also known by her stage name Patti Burton, is seen arguing with an elderly man on a plane - including the need for a face mask during the flight, and on suspicion - she beat him during the fight and inflicted bruises on his face.
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Cornwall tried to get back to her seat from the bathroom when she asked a flight attendant with a drinks cart that blocked the aisle to help get to her seat. The flight attendant asked Cornwall to find a seat available for the time being until she finished serving the drinks. Cornwall replied, "What am I, Rosa Parks?" (When she compares herself to an African-American activist active in the civil rights movement who became famous for refusing in 1955 to vacate her bus seat for a white person).
According to court documents this is what caught the attention of 69-year-old Russell Miller. The man, who felt Cornwall's comment was out of place, told her it was "not black, it's not Alabama and it's not a bus." At this point Cornwall ordered him to put on his face mask. Miller responded to her: "I eat and I can do it without my mask." She kept yelling at him to put the mask on and cursed him with "a piece of shit" and he in response told her she should put hers on - since they were both at this point with masks on their chin.
After Cornwall told him to get up, he responded to her with "Sit down, Karen" - a derogatory nickname used in the United States to describe a middle-aged white woman who fights a lot and thinks she is entitled to all the rights and demands beyond what is possible.
The couple continued to quarrel over the masks, and after Miller called Cornwall a "bitch" she was seen hitting him on the head and claiming she even spat on him, and he in response told her "now you're going to jail. Once we get to Atlanta, you're going to jail."
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Cornwall was indeed stopped when the plane landed at Hartsfield-Jackson Airport in Atlanta.
And she was later released on $ 20,000 bail, after being charged with assault.
Miller told police he was "hit in the face and scratched in the eye area" and the passenger who shared the video who identified herself as Clarissa Chasnat told them she was "burned by boiling water because of the suspect's behavior," according to the police report.
According to reports Cornwall has a string of offenses and entanglements with law enforcement, the most recent of which last month was then arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol in Walton County, according to Florida arrest records.
A Delta spokesman told the New York Post: "Law enforcement officials were waiting for Flight 2790 from Tampa to Atlanta, due to a passenger behaving uncontrollably during the flight. Such situations are rare for the vast majority of our customers and Delta has zero tolerance for such behavior at our airports and aircraft."
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