Woman arrested at Memphis International after assaulting flight attendant, officers, police say

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – A woman was arrested at Memphis International Airport Tuesday after assaulting a flight attendant and biting an officer, airport police said Wednesday.

Video obtained by FOX13 showed the woman as she was being placed under arrest, twisting away from officers as they tried to restrain her inside the terminal.

According to an Airport Police report, officers responded to Gate 12 for a disturbance during boarding Tuesday afternoon; they said 29-year-old Jessica Thomas had struck a Delta Airlines flight attendant in the lip, disrupting the boarding process…

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