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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Former <keyword id="65503" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Southwest-Airlines">Southwest Airlines</keyword> pilot <keyword id="11051430" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="michael-haak">Michael Haak</keyword> was charged with exposing his genitals mid-flight.</li><li>The act is said to have occured in August 2020 on a flight from Philadelphia to Orlando.</li><li><keyword id="145945" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Federal-prosecutors">Federal prosecutors</keyword> charged Haak with indecent exposure on April 2.</li></ul>A <keyword id="6444246" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="southwest">Southwest</keyword> Airlines pilot "intentionally committed an act of lewd, indecent and obscene exposure of his genitals in a public place" while captaining a flight from Philadelphia to Orlando in August 2020, the Department of Justice alleges.Michael Haak, who is no longer a pilot for Southwest, was criminally charged with exposing his genitals mid-flight, according to documents filed April 2 in Maryland <keyword id="98892" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="federal-court">federal court</keyword>. Notably, Haak was in charge of <keyword id="52392" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Flying">flying</keyword> the plane in question, Southwest flight WN 6607 from Philadelphia to Orlando.Haak is accused of a "lewd, indecent, or obscene" act on an aircraft "of which he was the pilot in command." He's being charged in federal court because events that occur mid-flight are under federal jurisdiction.If convicted, Haak could face up to 90 days in prison and/or a fine of up to $500. It's unclear at what point during the flight Haak is accused of exposing his genitals. A non-stop flight between Philadelphia and Orlando on Southwest takes about 2.5 hours. Few details of the event are included in the one-page court filing. A Southwest representative <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/southwest-pilot-accused-indecent-exposure-flight-76882051">told ABC News</a> that the company was unaware of the incident until it was contacted by investigators, at which time Haak no longer worked for the company. The airline told Insider it is complying with federal investigators and, "takes all matters related to workplace conduct very seriously."Haak could not be reached for comment. <p style=" margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block;"><a title="View Southwest Pilot charged with indecent exposure on Scribd" href="https://www.scribd.com/document/501654224/Southwest-Pilot-charged-with-indecent-exposure#from_embed" style="text-decoration: underline;">Southwest Pilot charged wit...</a> by <a title="View Graham's profile on Scribdribd" href="https://www.scribd.com/user/442256871/Graham#from_embed" style="text-decoration: underline;">Graham</a>Got a tip? Contact Insider senior correspondent Ben Gilbert via email (<a href="mailto:bgilbert@insider.com">bgilbert@insider.com</a>), or Twitter DM (<a href="https://twitter.com/RealBenGilbert">@realbengilbert</a>). We can keep sources anonymous. Use a non-work device to reach out. PR pitches by email only, please.

Southwest pilot accused of exposing his genitals during a flight from Philadelphia to Orlando

<ul class="summary-list"><li>A retired <keyword id="65503" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Southwest-Airlines">Southwest Airlines</keyword> pilot admitted to performing lewd acts during a flight last year.</li><li>Michael Haak exposed his genitals to a first officer and watched porn in the cockpit, prosecutors said.</li><li>Haak expressed remorse for his actions before being sentenced to one year's probation.</li></ul>A retired <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/watch-southwest-airlines-passenger-punched-attendant-knocked-teeth-out-2021-5">Southwest Airlines</a> pilot was sentenced to probation on Friday after pleading guilty to showing his genitals to a female first officer and watching <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/pornhub-purges-millions-unverified-videos-amid-child-pornography-allegations-2020-12">pornography</a> during a flight from Philadelphia to Florida last year.Prosecutors alleged that Michael Haak, 66, waited until the flight reached cruising altitude before he got up from the pilot's seat and "intentionally disrobed" while watching porn on a laptop, <a href="https://eu.usatoday.com/story/travel/airline-news/2021/05/29/southwest-airlines-pilot-exposure-porn-sentenced/5263480001/">USA Today reported.</a> "Haak further engaged in inappropriate conduct in the cockpit, as the first officer continued to perform her duties," prosecutors said in a statement, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-57294412">according to the BBC.</a> Haak had never met the female first officer before the flight.Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/us-cities-pay-people-move-incentives-2018-7">Can you work remotely? These 14 cities and towns will pay you up to $20,000 just to move there.</a>Judge J Mark Coulson sentenced Haak to one year of unsupervised probation and a $5,000 fine. Coulson said the ex- pilot's actions had traumatized the first officer.Haak apologized for his actions and said they had "started as a consensual prank between me and the other pilot," the BBC reported."I never imagined it would turn into this in a thousand years," he added.Haak, who is originally from Florida, was a pilot with Southwest Airlines for 27 years. He retired at the end of August last year.A spokesperson for Southwest Airlines told USA Today that the airline "does not tolerate behavior of this nature and will take prompt action if such conduct is substantiated." "Nonetheless, Southwest did investigate the matter and as a result, ceased paying Mr. Haak any benefits he was entitled to receive as a result of his separation from (the airline)," the spokesperson added.

Retired Southwest Airlines pilot admits to exposing himself to female first officer and watching porn mid-flight

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Evan Agostini/Invision/APFamous red beard-haver Michael Fassbender.</div></div></div>The <keyword id="79969" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="insider">INSIDER</keyword> Summary:• Some people have red beard hair, but not red head hair. • It's because of a mutation in a chromosome involved in producing hair pigment. • Don't worry, it's not dangerous. While<a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-24331615"> only a small percentage</a> of people in the world are redheads, non-redheads can still grow red beards.That's because of a curious genetic quirk that makes it possible for people to grow red hair in the first place.Hair color is determined genetically, and can be inherited through different genes from parents, grandparents, and ancestors that reach even further back. That increases the wide range of hair colors and color combinations that can be expressed on a person's body.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for Entertainment WeeklySeth Rogen has much lighter beard hair than head hair.</div></div></div>The precise shade of the color is determined by the amount of melanin - a type of organically developed pigment - in your hair. The type and amount of melanin is determined genetically."For white people the shades are dependent on two sorts of melanin: eumelanine (black pigment) and pheomelanine (red pigment)," Petra Haak-Bloem, a specialist at the Dutch national genetic research center Erfocentrum, <a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/read/why-do-so-many-men-have-red-beards-but-not-red-hair">told Motherboard</a>. "Hair cells of dark haired people only contain eumelanine. Blondes have less eumelanine. And redheads' hair contains mostly pheomelanine."Having a red beard and non-red head hair is linked to a mutation on <a href="https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/gene/MC1R#location">the MC1R gene, which appears on chromosome 16 in the DNA sequence</a>.MC1R plays an important role in making a protein involved in the production of the melanin that determines red hair.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Jesse Herzog/Invision/APChristian Bale's head hair is pretty red, but the whiskers are in another league.</div></div></div>People inherit two different types of MC1R, one from each parent, Haak-Bloem explained to Motherboard. So if one of those MC1R genes is mutated, you end up with people who have red hair in one place but not the other, because the two different types of MC1R are producing hair color pigments in different ways.That means you can end up with red beard hair and brown regular hair, like some people do. It's one mutated MC1R gene expressing itself in one part of the body. A similar genetic principle explains <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/why-beard-hair-is-a-different-color-than-head-hair">why hair texture is different on different parts of the body</a>.But if that's the case, why is it that it's relatively common to have dark hair and a red beard, but not red hair and a dark beard? And why doesn't this happen with other color combinations?Haak-Bloem said he wasn't sure. As far as genetic research goes, having a red beard isn't linked to any deadly diseases, so it hasn't been researched very much.So if you have a copper-colored beard that doesn't match your head hair color, don't worry - you're definitely not alone. <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/the-smallest-outdoor-sushi-bar-in-america-is-also-the-most-delicious-2016-12">The smallest outdoor sushi bar in America only has four seats</a></h3> <div> <div> <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="0wc2hqODE6x5P9eJ8j-02Vwuf_-U1FV8" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div> </div> </div> </div>

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Washington, DC, appeared to take a breather Thursday following days of unrest and clashes between protesters and law-enforcement officials in demonstrations against <keyword id="53374" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Police-Brutality">police brutality</keyword>.</li><li>Though the nation's capital remained peaceful, protesters outside the White House said the increased security made them uneasy.</li><li>"I'm really concerned that military has been brought in and the National Guard — I think that's a really radical step," said Lia Cheek, 32, who took the day off work to protest. "Part of me feels like it's turning into a military state."</li><li>A firestorm is also brewing over the sudden appearance of unmarked federal law-enforcement officials in the area, some of whom were later identified as being from the Bureau of Prisons.</li><li>A law-enforcement veteran said that it's "incredibly unusual" for such officials to be deployed to Washington and that it's "deeply troubling" that some tried to conceal their identities.</li></ul>For a moment, Washington, DC, on Thursday appeared to take a breather following days of unrest and clashes between protesters and law-enforcement officials during demonstrations against police brutality.The biggest resistance these forces encountered Thursday was the heat. Temperatures climbed above 90 degrees Fahrenheit, and the looming threat of thunderstorms in the nation's capital seemed to bring at least some measure of calm.But another storm is brewing across the country, with protests continuing from coast to coast connected to the Memorial Day death of <keyword id="9295731" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="george-floyd">George Floyd</keyword> while in Minneapolis police custody. His memorial service Thursday in Minnesota drew the Rev. Al Sharpton for a eulogy, while growing anger over President <keyword id="6354484" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Donald-Trump">Donald Trump</keyword>'s response to the protests have added fresh doubts about his own reelection prospects.Washington had been a ghost town since March because of the coronavirus pandemic. Now, it resembles a police state following the recent appearance of unmarked federal law-enforcement officers patrolling the streets and guarding important government landmarks.Against that larger backdrop, about a hundred demonstrators gathered for a peaceful protest outside the White House shortly after noon while a smattering of Secret Service and US Park Police patrolled Lafayette Square on the other side of a tall new fence erected to block the area off from protesters.Reporters gathered outside the boarded-up St. John's Church, which Trump used Monday as the setting for his widely criticized photo op in which he held aloft a Bible after federal agents cleared protesters from the scene with gas and rubber bullets. A few park police officers lounged on shady benches, which were theirs for the taking after tourists and locals were barred from the area.South of the White House, members of the District of Columbia and South Carolina National Guard waited in their vehicles outside the headquarters of the US Customs and Border Protection agency.About 500 South Carolina guardsmen arrived in Washington on Tuesday to assist with protests, but on Thursday afternoon several sat in a parked convoy as the downtown streets that were already abandoned from the coronavirus pandemic remained mostly empty. Some huddled together, while one appeared to take a midday nap in the cab of his vehicle.One serviceman remarked that he'd been about to go on vacation, until he was called up to the nation's capital."We were out last night, and it was very calm, just people wanting to be heard," a staff sergeant from South Carolina told Insider. She didn't know how long they'd remain in Washington.Around the corner, a platoon of about 30 Washington metropolitan police officers guarded the Trump International Hotel from behind a ring of metal barricades. The building hosted no guests but remains a popular site for protesters.Up the street, eight FBI agents strolled in a tight pack past the boarded-up fast-casual restaurants and shuttered office buildings that lined 12th Street, with their agency's abbreviation beaming from bright yellow letters on their vests.<h2>'Part of me feels like it's turning into a military state'</h2><div type="image" title="washington dc protests" height="800" width="1600" msid="76205863" hostid="261"></div>Though Thursday afternoon remained peaceful, some protesters outside the White House said the increased security made them uneasy."I'm really concerned that military has been brought in and the National Guard — I think that's a really radical step," said Lia Cheek, 32, who took the day off to protest. "Part of me feels like it's turning into a military state.""It's a sign of who our president is — he likes to control, he likes to bully, and he's using our military and our people and our tax dollars to bully us and control us, and that's not OK," she added. "We need to keep protesting and using our voices."Nikki Goodwin, a 45-year-old bartender from Maryland, said she was protesting outside the White House on Tuesday "just 'cause he said not to," referring to the president.Goodwin said she took issue with Trump's<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/state-leaders-shun-trumps-calls-to-dominate-protests-using-military-2020-6"> command that governors and law-enforcement officials "dominate" protesters</a>. She said she went to her first demonstration on Tuesday after seeing images the day before of police officers firing rubber bullets and chemical irritants at protesters."If he hadn't been talking reckless, I probably would have stayed home," Goodwin said. She added that she wanted to see more transparency from police departments about officers' backgrounds, as well as policy changes to stop officers with previous records of complaints or abuse from transferring between departments.Not everyone was concerned about the increased security. Rahsann Soumas, a Washington resident in his 40s, pointed to the fence around Lafayette Square and told Business Insider, "The guys on the other side of that fence aren't bad. They're doing their job.""You see the National Guard often in times of civil unrest, crisis, everything from a natural disaster to protests," he said. "The average person in the Guard is just doing their job — they're not here to bust heads."But, Soumas added, "I think it could be misused."<h2>Trump criticized for emulating dictators and authoritarians</h2><div type="image" title="FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump walks out of the Oval Office to deliver a statement on the ongoing protests over racial inequality in the wake of the death of George Floyd while in Minneapolis police custody, in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, U.S., June 1, 2020. REUTERS/Tom Brenner" height="400" width="800" msid="76205864" hostid="261"></div>Indeed, the president has been harshly criticized in recent days for acting in ways that <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-teargas-photo-op-was-frightening-to-authoritarianism-experts-2020-6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">experts say</a> emulate the behavior of dictators and authoritarians: cracking down on demonstrations, labeling opponents "thugs" and terrorists, and calling for the use of military force against protesters.Then there's the unidentified federal agents. Reporters started noticing them early this week. <a href="https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2020/06/who-are-they-unmarked-security-forces-dc-spark-fear/165892/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According to Defense One</a>, some carried rifles and others had body armor, riot shields, and pepper spray.Dan Friedman, a Mother Jones reporter, encountered some of the federal officers on Tuesday who replied that they were with "the Department of Justice" when asked to identify themselves.NBC <keyword id="6355005" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="news">News</keyword>' Garrett Haake had a similar experience, writing that federal officers outside the White House refused to identify themselves and that all insignias and name plates had been removed.Two security personnel identified themselves to Defense One on Tuesday as being part of the Special Operations Response Team, an emergency unit from the Bureau of Prisons that's tasked with maintaining order at correctional facilities.NPR reported on Monday that Attorney General William Barr had ordered the Bureau of Prisons, which is part of the Department of Justice, to send its riot-response teams to help local law-enforcement officials in Washington.<h2>'Incredibly unusual' for BOP officials to be deployed to Washington</h2><div type="image" title="BOP officials" height="1000" width="2000" msid="76205865" hostid="261"></div>Numerous Democratic lawmakers are leveling harsh criticism at Trump for ordering what they characterize as a disproportionate use of force by law-enforcement officials against protesters exercising their right to peacefully assemble."It is alarming that here in our nation's capital, the thousands who have turned out peacefully have been confronted with the deployment of various security officers from multiple jurisdictions, including unidentified federal law enforcement personnel," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a letter to the president on Thursday."We are concerned about the increased militarization and lack of clarity that may increase chaos," the California Democrat added. Pelosi requested a "full list of the agencies involved and clarifications of the roles and responsibilities of the troops and federal law enforcement resources operating in the city.""Congress and the American people need to know who is in charge, what is the chain of command, what is the mission, and by what authority is the National Guard from other states operating in the capital," the letter said.Asked about the unidentified officers on Washington's streets, the city's police chief, Peter Newsham, said local police officers were required by law to identify themselves. Their helmets even have numbers on them so they can be tracked.Newsham said he would ask that any federal officials who come to the Washington area moving forward be "clearly identifiable as to who they are" so that people feel more comfortable.Law-enforcement veterans also expressed concern on the matter."It would be incredibly unusual for BOP officers to be deployed in this manner," said John Sandweg, the Obama-era acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement who also served as the general counsel of the Department of Homeland Security."While I understand that the federal government needs to pull from as many resources as possible, and while some BOP officers have training in handling protest and unrest inside federal prisons, those situations are dramatically different from protests on city streets," Sandweg added.Matt Chandler, a deputy chief of staff at DHS during the Obama administration who is now a managing director at the Democratic consulting agency Bully Pulpit Interactive, echoed that view. The officers' refusal to identify themselves is "only exacerbating tensions" and sends "a chilling message of unaccountability in a time where law enforcement should be seeking ways to deescalate and listen," he told Business Insider.While some federal investigators may have to conceal their identity in the course of their enforcement duties, "it's implausible to think there is any operational reason why a law enforcement official in a patrol or crowd-control capacity would be unwilling or unable to identify themselves," Chandler said.And whether BOP officials were ordered to conceal their identities, he added, "It would be deeply troubling and beg the question: Why?"<h2>The DOJ can mobilize officers across the federal government so they have 'authority in all 50 states'</h2><div type="image" title="William Barr" height="1000" width="2000" msid="76205866" hostid="261"></div>The Bureau of Prisons' director, Michael Carvajal, addressed the controversy during a press briefing Thursday, telling reporters he was not aware of "any specific Bureau of Prisons personnel being told not to identify themselves.""What I attribute that to is probably the fact that we normally operate within the confines of our institution and we don't need to identify ourselves," Carvajal said. "Most of our identification is institution-specific and probably wouldn't mean a whole lot to people in DC."That said, he conceded that he "probably should have done a better job of marking them nationally as the agency." He continued: "Point is well taken, but I assure you that no one was specifically told, to my knowledge, not to identify themselves."Bill Pickle, who served for more than two decades in the Secret Service, also told Business Insider he wasn't surprised to see BOP officials in unmarked attire in the region.As the chief law-enforcement agency, the Department of Justice consists of multiple smaller arms like the FBI, the Bureau of Prisons, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, and others. Each agency's individual authority is spelled out under Title 18 of the US code.But "what happens when you get a situation like this where there's a lack of manpower, what you'd do is bring in officers from other agencies, like the BOP, and place them under DOJ supervision," Pickle said. "And all you do is deputize them as deputy US marshals, so they then have authority in all 50 states. That's how the government gets around this. So that's what you probably saw with the Bureau of Prisons guys and others, they were probably all deputized."In this case, Barr most likely decided to bring in BOP officials for expediency and because they're familiar with crowd control, Pickle said. And as far as the officials not wearing clearly marked uniforms, he added, "it's probably not so much that they removed their insignias, it's just that they didn't wear their prison uniforms here.""My sense is there are lots of different federal law enforcement agents and officers who were brought in here," Pickle said. "In situations like these where you see cops, they're usually wearing all black or all green. They don't really wear name tags or patches on their shoulders. It's more of a functional uniform. So I don't know if there's a lot to this."But even Pickle said that he found it odd that the security personnel didn't clearly identify themselves when asked."When someone asks you who you are, you tell them, 'Yes, I'm with the Department of Justice,' or, 'I'm with the Bureau of Prisons,'" he said. "That's all you have to say. I don't know the circumstances under which someone would say, 'Maybe,' when asked if they're with DOJ or decline to identify themselves."

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