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[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 103 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The pilot was arrested on child pornography charges according to the article if anyone came her looking for the reason.

That said... It's a pilot you know where they are going to be next why not wait till they exit?

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 101 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Police love theatrics. Gotta keep the population afraid.

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 38 points 2 days ago

They think determining guilt and innocence and punishing the guilty is their job and all the lawyers and judges are just egghead formalities, so they think that administering the punishment of public humiliation to suspects is doing their job

[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 33 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They shouldn't have been on the plane and shouldn't have been anywhere NEAR the terminal either.

Imagine the pilot's buddy in the terminal texts him in the air like "lots of cops on the tarmac, wonder what's going on?"

If their hand had been tipped that they were on the plane or on the ground, there is a real chance that everyone on that plane would die.

[–] SheeEttin@lemmy.zip -4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I don't think the flight crew are checking their phones in the air.

I also doubt he'd think they were coming for him. Most criminals aren't too clever.

[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago

Pilots are 100% on their phones in the air.

[–] dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Flight Crew, including pilots, are 100% checking their phones in the air.

[–] SassyRamen@lemmy.world 68 points 2 days ago

Oh now do Donald John trump for raping and trafficing children!

[–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 45 points 2 days ago

When will they go to the white house

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 days ago

Cops too stupid to just nail him at home. This was for show.

[–] ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh look. A test to see how many people with fake badges can force their way into "secured" cockpits now.

[–] SirSamuel@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

Ehhhhh. I get the spirit of what you're saying. I do like accuracy tho. A secured cockpit is not a sovereign state on the ground, and airport police absolutely have authority to arrest and would have been involved in this clown show.

The badges aren't fake because, as Cerci said back when GoT was good, "Power is power", and they have the power.

[–] zero@fek.xyz 10 points 2 days ago

One of the plane’s pilots was arrested on child porn charges by officers from multiple agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security and the Contra Costa Sheriff’s Office.

Was he on the Epstein list too?