Posted on 04/18/2017 5:06:52 AM PDT by pabianice
But we have to ask, do the facts really justify this level of outrage? After all, United approached this overbooked flight in the same way that airlines across the country do every day. Dao was given many chances to leave the flight peacefully, and blatantly refused to do so. In airports post-9/11, this type of behavior is not tolerated as there is a greater emphasis on the expectation to comply with the instructions of airline personnel for safety reasons. After Dao dug his feet in, all United did was call the airport police. Anything that occurred after that point was out of its control, and was the responsibility of the police department. Still, the injuries to Dao that have garnered so much outrage were probably not done intentionally, and were likely only sustained after he was accidentally dropped while being removed. No evidence in the video, or anything that has otherwise surfaced, has shown that anyone intentionally tried to harm Dao.
Despite the media’s best efforts to create a narrative, Dao was not an innocent doctor assaulted for trying to get to his patients. Christina Mora, a reporter for a CBS affiliate out of Louisville, tweeted that his office remained open through Monday morning, and that the staff there would not even confirm that he had patients scheduled for Monday. Dao belligerently defied airport security, and was met with an unintended consequence. And now, Dao will also be a man with a potentially quite lucrative lawsuit in the works.
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“”Is this part of the story in the thread? I didn’t see anything like that””
“”Yup.””
If it’s not too much trouble, could you copy that in a reply? I have gone over the article twice more and I don’t see a word about some guy sleeping across two seats on that thread. Just curious....
His own office could not confirm that he had ANY patients at the time he claimed. Sorry, but Dr. or not, he is not entitled to special treatment just because he claims he is one of the entitled ones. He should have left the plane and tthere would have been no ‘disturbance.”
‘His own office could not confirm that he had ANY patients at the time he claimed.’
Link, please. Thsnks.
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