2 women arrested after wild brawl over missed boarding at Miami airport

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2 women arrested after wild brawl over missed boarding at Miami airport
By
Snejana Farberov
January 25, 2023 1:50pm
Updated

Two female passengers were arrested at Miami International Airport after a fight with an airline worker, followed by a clash with cops that was caught on video.
Cellphone footage that was provided to NBC 6 Miami by the news media site Only In Dade shows the two unruly women being pinned down Tuesday by police officers.
One of the arrestees sporting bright pink hair is seen kicking her feet and trying to crawl away on her stomach while screaming “Get off of me!” at the top of her lungs.
The other woman is lying face down on the floor with her hands restrained behind her back.
The incident that preceded that chaotic arrest took place around 9:30 a.m. Tuesday at a Frontier Airlines ticket counter, where an airline employee informed the two women that they could not to board their flight to Atlanta because they were 45 minutes late.

00:3801:28 Mercer, 20, was charged with aggravated battery, resisting arrest with violence and disorderly conduct.Miami-Dade Corrections Negash, 21, was arrested on counts of resisting arrest with violence and disorderly conduct.Miami-Dade Corrections Police said Mercer threw a plastic sign holder at a Frontier Airlines employee after being told she could not board her flight because she was 45 minutes late.Instagram / @onlyindade
A verbal argument ensued and then escalated to violence when 20-year-old Makyan Mercer allegedly hurled a plastic sign holder at the Frontier staffer, leaving her with a cut on her face, according to an arrest report cited by the station.
Police officers at the scene detained Mercer, after which the second woman, 21-year-old Janaeah Negash, allegedly tried to interfere with the arrest by positioning herself between Mercer and the cops.
The arrest report quoted Nagesh as screaming at the police, “Don’t touch her!”
Police were called and tried to arrest Mercer, but pandemonium broke out.Instagram / @onlyindade
The 20-year-old is seen in the video screaming and crawling on the floor.Instagram / @onlyindade
Negash was arrested for allegedly trying to interfere in Mercer’s arrest by putting herself between the woman and officers.Instagram / @onlyindade
Mercer was booked into the Miami-Dade County Jail on charges of aggravated battery, resisting arrest with violence and disorderly conduct.
Negash was arrested on counts of resisting arrest with violence and disorderly conduct.
The two women, both from Durham, North Carolina, were released from jail after posting $500 bond each.
They are due back in Florida court on Feb. 23.

 

[carsun1000]

when your life takes a detour, following your action.

 

[EGO-TRIP]

The next 10 - 15 yrs this country will look like a war zone

 

[CoTtOnMoUf]

Some of our people have so
much to learn about life.

 

[DiGeneral]

Has anyone ever experienced a scenario in which screaming "get off of me" and flailing about prompted law enforcement to do just that?

 

[RUDY RAYYY MO]

Negash. Sounds like East African, particularly Habesha

 

[REDLINE]

Fake eyelashes stayed in place, looks like a win to me.

 

[Last Dayz]

Went to get a BBL and got arrested.

 

[VAiz4hustlaz]

" 'Canadians' acting up again??"

Don't y'all know this is code for "n********ers"?

 

[Da Backshot Champ]

Why do those dastatdly policemen have their filthy hands on those beautiful black queens?

 

[yasky777]

" 'Canadians' acting up again??"

Don't y'all know this is code for "n********ers"?

No shit? Explain the connection

 

[VAiz4hustlaz]

No shit? Explain the connection

Is term 'Canadian' used as racist word?
Is Canadian' the new black? Perhaps – that is if you're a racist speaking in code.

Is "Canadian" the new black? Perhaps – that is if you're a racist speaking in code.

Recent revelations that the term "Canadian" is being used to replace racist names for black people have got a Texas assistant district attorney into trouble and have left others wondering what exactly it means to be labelled a Canadian in the American south.

Long derogated as weak-kneed liberals with lax laws and funny monopoly money, Canadians have carried a negative connotation in certain regions of America – but not as a replacement for the N-word.

Earlier this week a columnist with the Houston Chronicle uncovered an email from Harris County assistant district attorney Mike Trent who, in a congratulatory note to a junior prosecutor, used the word "Canadians" to describe blacks on a jury.

Trent wrote of the prosecutor in a 2003 email: "He overcame a subversively good defence by Matt Hennessey that had some Canadians on the jury feeling sorry for the defendant and forced them to do the right thing."

Trent's email remained unchallenged by colleagues who received the email, despite there being no actual Canadians on the jury.
But when Trent's office came under scrutiny this month over an unrelated incident, the email was unearthed, leaving Trent open to accusations of bigotry.

Those accusations are grounded in allegations that the use of "Canadians" was in keeping with the definition listed on an online racial slurs database that defines "Canadian" as a masked replacement for the N-word.

In his own defense, Trent said he honestly thought there had been Canadians on the jury and did not understand the negative connotation of the word.
Others, including the columnist with the Houston Chronicle initially thought the reference to Canadians may have been a misspelling of Californians, who are themselves seen to espouse many of the same liberal values as Canadians.

Despite the controversy, Henry Wells, a Texan and media relations officer with the Canadian Consulate General in Dallas, says he has never heard the term used in a racial manner before.

Is term 'Canadian' used as racist word?

Is Canadian' the new black? Perhaps – that is if you're a racist speaking in code.

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