January 28, 2012 Women faces charges in scuffle with Dayton International Airport police www.privateofficer.com
Dayton OH Jan 28 2012 A 59-year-old woman is expected to be charged with two misdemeanors after she was accused of reaching for an airport police officer’s Taser at Dayton International Airport on Tuesday afternoon.
According to Terrence Slaybaugh, director of aviation at Dayton International Airport, the woman and her son had arrived at about 5 p.m. for departing flights scheduled for Wednesday morning. The woman was reportedly using an airport-property wheelchair as a luggage cart as she was making her way to check-in. A skycap asked for the wheelchair to assist another passenger, Slaybaugh said.
She allegedly refused and the skycap then asked an airport police officer to assist in getting the chair back. She refused the officer and a physical confrontation ensued. The officer was pushed and the woman reached for his Taser, Slaybaugh said. When that happened, the officer handcuffed the woman and she ended up on the ground in the front lobby of the airport.
Her son, U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Devin Rivas-Martin, said he wants to see the surveillance video. Rivas-Martin, who is returning to Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska, said he didn’t see what happened because he was returning a rental car after dropping off his mother in front of the airport. When he returned to the lobby, she was on the ground being held down by an officer.
His mother arrived in Dayton from Salinas, Kan., on Jan. 12 to help during his recovery following eye surgery at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
They arrived at the airport and had planned to stay there overnight because they had departing flights on Wednesday. Now, they are staying in Dayton and plan to see an attorney, he said.
He said his mother is not violent and he believes there was no reason to use force on a 59-year-old woman.
Slaybaugh said Rivas-Martin was apologetic when talking with the arresting officer about what happened.
His mother, who suffered a facial burn, an injured lip and a scraped knee when she fell, was fine after treatment at an area hospital, Rivas-Martin said.
Source:Dayton Daily News
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