‘Sit Down, Karen!’ FBI Investigating White Woman After Viral Video Shows Violent Mid-Flight Attack

Delta Air Lines passenger Patricia Cornwall is restrained while confronting another passenger on Dec. 23, 2021. | Source: ATL Uncensored | Atlanta News
A white woman who was shown on video harassing and attacking at least one passenger during a recent commercial airplane flight is reportedly being investigated by federal law enforcement officials. Patricia Cornwall was taken into custody last week after the plane landed in Atlanta in what is seemingly the latest example of a so-called “Karen” being brought to justice for flagrantly flouting the law.
The fateful Delta Air Lines flight was one of the rare instances of a white woman trying to weaponize her privileges against a fellow white person. But still, the episode ended like most of the other viral Karen videos — with her being held accountable for her actions, albeit much more swiftly than those instances involving Black victims, but we digress…
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The video footage that was apparently recorded by another passenger opens by showing a furious Cornwall standing over and berating a seemingly elderly white man about the universal airline policy of everybody on board being required to wear masks during the COVID-19 pandemic. Only this woman wasn’t wearing one at all.
“Put your f**king mask on!” Cornwall implored, to which the man responded: “I’m eating!”
Passengers are permitted to lower their masks while eating or drinking on flights.
Still, Cornwall fired back, “Don’t you dare talk to me like that!”
After Cornwall dares the man to stand up, almost as if she wanted to fight him, he yelled in no uncertain terms, “Sit down, Karen!” — three words that elicited applause from some of the other passengers who couldn’t help but hear the commotion.
Cornwall and the unidentified man go on to exchange expletives as a flight attendant appears to restrain the “Karen” and tells her to put her “mask up, right now.”
Karen responds by telling the flight attendant to tell the man to put his mask up.
After the man calls Cornwall a “witch” with a capital B, the video shows she smacked his face.
“Now you’re going to jail!” the man said while wagging his finger at Cornwall.
Watch the video below.
As it turns out, the man was correct about Cornwall’s fate, sort of.
Atlanta news outlet 11 Alive reported that the “unruly passenger” was taken into custody once the flight from Tampa arrived at Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Thursday.
A former Atlanta prosecutor told 11 Alive that Cornwall might be facing some seriously harsh penalties for her in-flight violence.
“She could be charged with a felony by interfering with the lawful duties of not one, but two, I think maybe three flight attendants because they had to restrain her and continually ask her to stop,” Darryl Cohen said. “She is potentially facing both misdemeanor and felony charges.”
As of Sunday, Cornwall had reportedly still not been charged with a crime.
Unruly passengers have been an issue that’s been steadily escalating as the pandemic endures. Airline crews recently released a list of demands in response, including a mandatory “no-fly list” for anybody found to be in violation. Airline industry officials testified earlier this month at a Senate Commerce Committee hearing on the impact of federal support for airlines during the COVID pandemic.
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At the dog park in Brooklyn with my fiancé and this white woman was threatening to call police and told us to “stay in our hood” because she had our dog confused with another dog who had been barking loudly. So, I started recording and she tried to slap the phone out my hand. pic.twitter.com/9MXwMiU3Qb
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Nosy woman complains about a flag pic.twitter.com/srQk12YmW9
Karen charges at a black woman and then turns on white woman tears when she realizes she’s being recorded. 1/3 pic.twitter.com/9gzksgorLN
I wish a Karen would roll up and call herself taking a package from my house because she suspects “something is going on in there.”

What is wrong with these white women? pic.twitter.com/ROX3zLPcTY
This happened at a Ross Dress for Less…

Told you. pic.twitter.com/FkSLsgxPUc
RACIST Anti-Masker Karen Calls Black Bakery worker B**** Ass N-word for denying service. pic.twitter.com/nRsF95RFmK
PRAY FOR LEBRON pic.twitter.com/Z8oAhl2kqf
Wow! This woman made baseless claims against @keyonharrold and his 14yo son at @arlohotels Arlo SoHo — then assaulted them, scratching Keyon & tackling his boy. Worse, the hotel manager defended & empowered her actions, and refused to apologize after her claims were proven wrong! pic.twitter.com/LqHboiAEd6
This is a Trader Joe’s today. In Los Angeles. Cases are through the roof in California. Is there any way to reach these people?

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hey guys!! this is my new neighbor!! pic.twitter.com/yZxsQD1daS
Caron Jones — that’s Caron with a “K” as in “Karen” 👩🏼‍⚕️ — also called the Black Lives Matter movement a "ploy" for Black votes before the North Carolina nurse got fired for her racist social media posts.https://t.co/WQn68gNToF
It was the I’m the wrong nigga for me 😭 pic.twitter.com/2Rv33NNn2k
"I HAVE A BLACK HUSBAND!"

A "Karen" in Seattle identified as Leah completely lost it when Karlos Dillard, a Black man, confronted and recorded her after he says he was the victim of her racist road rage.

The video has gone viral as Karening gets worse.https://t.co/X5ryYpQlhF
A white couple call the police on me, a person of color, for stencilling a #BLM chalk message on my own front retaining wall. “Karen” lies and says she knows that I don’t live in my own house, because she knows the person who lives here. #blacklivesmatter pic.twitter.com/rOpHvKVwgP
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Question: I get we’re living in stressful times but why do we keep seeing so many white women abusing workers like this? pic.twitter.com/UKfWG631TX
Racism rots your brain pic.twitter.com/OuzPmyRN6d
On the next episode of “are white people ok? 👀”…. meet Red Lobster Karen 🦞 pic.twitter.com/ElgRipPyrU
Karen has a meltdown because store won’t let her in without a mask.

They offer to give her a mask.

They offer to shop for her.

She says she’s calling corporate. #COVID19 pic.twitter.com/oQSFueFn4T
I can’t believe this is real. This lady went out to video shame everyone who dared to have fun in the sun at the beach and then she yelled at a Trader Joe’s worker over social distancing.

Karen needs to just stay home and leave the rest of us alone… 🙄🤦🏻‍♂️pic.twitter.com/QUeZkRSudW
K*ren: "Arrest me"

Cop: Okay

K*ren: 😲 pic.twitter.com/5NJnPsSj8k
I’m baffled. Just saw this on the news. Woman who drove 1.5 hours to go to the beach with her family complains about other people at the beach who have done the same as her. Does she not see she’s part of the problem #StayAtHomeSaveLives #COVIDIDIOTS pic.twitter.com/iowllyZEk2
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Source: Twitter / Twitter (opens in a new tabUPDATED: 9:40 a.m. ET, Sept. 28, 2021 — While they never really went anywhere, Karens and their Karening — white women amplifying and weaponizing their privileges when it comes to exerting their purported moral authorities — are apparently making a serious comeback. The pandemic seemed to bring them out in hordes before the unfortunate phenomenon died down, but now they’re coming back with a major vengeance. But one constant throughout it all has been how Karens keep getting immortalized on the viral videos in which they and their racism are unwittingly starring. Frederick Joseph was at a dog park in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, with his fiancee, Porsche Landon, when the Black couple and their dog happened across an unidentified white woman—we’ll just call her Klan-ish Karen—who they said told them to “stay in your hood” during a spat over the couple’s dog, which they said she had mistaken for some other dog. https://twitter.com/FredTJoseph/status/1441919836112650242 Another video that was recently making the rounds on social media and showed a white woman walking her dog threatening an apparent neighbor and fellow dog-walker who was Black. It was unclear what the confrontation in what appeared to be an apartment complex stemmed from, but the white woman was the clear aggressor. The white woman was cursing up a storm, dropping F bombs left and right, as the Black woman apparently just stood there and recorded Karen’s angry outburst. When the white woman yells for the Black woman to “get the f**k out of here,” the Black woman calmly responds, “I live here.” The white woman retreats, but then comes back at the Black woman saying inexplicably, “b*tches like you are the reason cellphones are a thing these days.” The video’s caption says, “I was minding my black business walking my dog when…” The post was accompanied by the now-obligatory #karensgonewild hashtag. “Let’s find her,” the caption encouraged the woman’s followers. Watch the unfortunate encounter below. https://twitter.com/TomthunkitsMind/status/1438307714065702912?s=20 With the proliferation of all the Karens, it can be hard to keep track of them, especially amid ongoing protests against the very racism that they represent. And if you thought Karens could only be women, get your sexist mind out of the racial gutter. There have been a growing number of instances of white men unknowingly vying against their female counterparts (though there doesn’t seem to be anything more irresistible to police officers than a white woman’s tears, but we digress…) to one-up each other’s irrational anti-Black racism. Those folks have been Christened as “Karen’s Husband.” We met one earlier when a white man decided to call the cops on protestors because they were allegedly “honking horns” near his home. In peak white entitlement fashion, he tried to use his service in the military as a reason why he has the authority to make demands. In another video, a group of Black entrepreneurs described being racially profiled by a white man in a Minnesota building where they rent office space. Previously, one notorious Karen had an unwanted moment of international attention when a woman named Amy Cooper claimed to be deathly afraid of a Black man because he asked her to put her dog on a leash in New York City’s Central Park where bird-watching is popular. Oh, and because it is against the rules to have dogs off leashes in the public park. It was one of the more egregious instances of Karen trying to police a Black person under flagrantly racist pretenses. Source: @melodyMcooper / Twitter The incident unfolded early on the 2020 Memorial Day holiday after Christian Cooper (obviously, no relation) spotted Karen’s dog off the leash in a part of Central Park called the Ramble. The video begins directly afterward and shows Karen, clearly embarrassed at being rightfully called out, reacting mercilessly on both human and canine levels, fumbling to put the leash on her dog while scrambling to call police at the same time. In doing so, she appeared to be choking, lifting and dragging her dog by the leash. Karen can be seen and heard repeating in a shaky voice on her phone that “there’s an African American man threatening my life.” Christian Cooper’s video, of course, showed that the only apparent threat came when Karen moved aggressively toward him despite his pleas for her to stop advancing in his direction. Watch the video below. https://twitter.com/melodyMcooper/status/1264965252866641920?s=20 Prior to that madness, a social media debate broke out over the racial connotation behind the name Karen, with white women claiming it was the “N-word for white women.” But not all of these videos have a racial undertone to them, either. Many of the so-called Karens show just as much negative energy toward their fellow white folks as they do to Black people. The underlying theme each time remains the same — how dare anybody go against what Karen says? https://twitter.com/briantylercohen/status/1263208102951743488?s=20 That privileged attitude, however, has not prevailed as it used to not so long ago when an earlier incarnation of the Karens — BBQ Becky — dominated the news cycle by calling the police on Black people who were somehow exhibiting threatening behavior by participating in everyday activities that included but were definitely not limited to having a cookout, selling Girl Scout cookies and studying in a university library. Source: YouTube Karens were already rising to infamy before the coronavirus pandemic set in. But as the COVID-19 crisis has continued, so have the Karens, undeterred in getting their points across. From questioning why a Black police officer was “breaking into” his own home to assaulting workers at a Red Lobster restaurant who were only enforcing social distancing guidelines to finding a UPS worker “suspicious” for delivering packages to threatening pharmacy employees, the coronavirus has emboldened Karens across the world. Another hallmark of the Karen videos is the decided absence of police violence. In one video, a Karen is joined by a throng of other Karens at a playground, one of the many places initially ruled off-limits during the pandemic. The video opens with a police officer politely and patiently asking the lead Karen to kindly leave since playgrounds were closed to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, especially among the young. But the head Karen in charge had other ideas and decided to mouth off to the cop, who gave her multiple chances to leave before he finally arrested her. We shudder to think of the police treatment a Black person would have received for exhibiting the same behavior. That came after a male Karen blocked a Black delivery driver from leaving a gated community and called the police over the same kind of misguided suspicions that white folks have been known to have when they see Black and brown skin. https://www.facebook.com/765180603/videos/10163890984630604/ Listen to the 911 call “Ken” made reporting the “suspicious” delivery driver. https://twitter.com/Korbettmosesly/status/1373360737922347009?s=20 For the full Karen experience of living life feeling like there are no consequences and repercussions for one’s own actions, scroll down for a hearty dose of Karens’ collective reality as documented in the growing number of videos below.
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