VIDEO: Passenger Assaults American Airlines Flight Attendant

Almost agree with you Patrick except with the length of jail time. This was a mighty King Hit landed by the perpetrator, with many such punches resulting in brain damage or even death. With this in mind and the evidence is conclusive, he should be charged with aggravated assault endangering human life perhaps even attempted murder and face the full consequences.
Hope he gets a judge who's daughter is a flight attendant.

Guys...he's facing TWENTY years in prison. This is a huge deal, you can't just assault someone in a flight crew. Interfering with their duties and assaulting like that is federal prison time. This guy is going away for quite a while. He will probably do at least five, he'll be forced to join the "white gang" as soon as he gets into the feds (especially if it's a west coast institution), he's going to be forced to "put in work" and will probably get another five years on top of it for said "work", and end up doing 10-15. This is what happens to people that do stupid stuff like him when they go to federal prison. It's no joke, he's in for a world of pain he never knew could happen to him.

Who said it’s not?

Exactly! If you’re arrested for DUI, your driving privilege restriction isn’t confined to the city of occurrence.

Time to welcome him as a permanent entry on the federal No-fly list. And arrest him if he goes within 1 mile of an airport. *After* he gets out from his initial "time in the shade"

"passengers are seen getting up, presumably to restrain the now-hostile passenger."

Agreed, but it doesn’t matter. It’s 2022, and we’ve returned to near normalcy. The Pandimic is no excuse.

The laws for assaulting a flight crew have not changed. He's face 20 years in prison and that would be true after or before the pandemic, and even before 9/11.

Sad! No excuse for that. Very poor judgement, that could have possibly gotten someone injured.

This follows a four year administration during which we were taught to hate people we don’t like and that we can react violently if we don’t get what we want.

Decades of propaganda from increasingly unhinged media outlets and politicians telling Americans that other Americans are their enemy.

He was hogtied with the help of two passengers who AA has never contacted since their assist in the restraint.

https://heavy.com/news/alexander-le-flight-attendant-punched-lax-cabo-video/

How so? I clicked the link, read the full article and watched the video.

Two words. Two syllables. Tolerance of incivility has become the norm for half of the US.

Unless you really want to emphasise your point I would suggest you turn your caps lock off.

My last recurrent training as a FA we were showed some pretty lame self defense over but in no way were we to put our hands on a passenger. And this was even a couple years after 9/11. Of course this instructor did not work for my airline. Worse case scenario and I'm nearby, I know where my O2 bottles and fire extinguishers are. Although there isn't much room to brawl on an EMB145.