Posted on 04/13/2017 3:37:45 AM PDT by Zakeet
The person who filmed the video of a man being forcibly removed from a United Airlines flight over the weekend says security is not to blame for the situation.
"It's clearly the man's fault that security had to drag him off. He was resisting. I don't blame the security guards at all," Tyler Bridges, who captured the moment on his cellphone, told Fox Business on Tuesday.
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this videographer is a slave
Next time I’m taking the train....
It’s funny because people here generally defend cops’ shooting of people for “not obeying orders,” yet here it finally becomes acceptable to not immediately bow to their demands.
"DONT TREAD ON ME"
Media & government say different than he, they are pushing more government control of the airline...
And it's getting very tiresome to keep hearing that the flight was overbooked, when in fact the airline opted to toss off paying passengers so that four employees could enjoy free travel.
Regardless of Dao's past history, United screwed up. They would have done so no matter who it was they chose to have removed.
Several cellphones captured the scene. You can see other phones recording it in some footage.
Also, did the news agencies PAY to use this footage or did they just steal it off the internet as their parent companies always complain about people doing with music, movies, and tv shows?
Next time the airline would be best served to kick the videographer off the plane. No evidence and he would comply.
“this videographer is a slave”
Agreed, And a snowflake no doubt.
Wait until Livenation starts doing this at concerts.
“I’m sorry, I know that you’d planned to see this concert from the fourth row but we managed to sell that seat for a couple thousand dollars, here are some free vouchers to see cover bands at the House of Blues.”
And on another thread, that reportedly HAS happened on an airline (where a higher paying passenger got to fly in a seat that had already been sold and occupied).
They weren’t cops.
A distinction without a difference.
Jack boots are born from wearing a badge.
Two issues I haven’t seen addressed very much. A, I read that they tazed Dao point blank. That was playing into his lawsuit, because not every 69 yo heart can withstand that level of stress.
B, they left a 69 yo bleeding, unconscious man unattended. That’s stupid on many levels. Weren’t there three people involved in dragging him off? Is retrieving a gurney so hard and arduous that it required all three to do it?
United could not have cooperated more with the soon-to-be pending lawsuit if that had been their intention.
Any such actions need to be handled pre boarding or not at all. When passengers get to their seats there is a flip switches in their brains that says .... I made it, I’m on the plane, I’m settled in my seat, and so barring any accidents I have nothing to worry about until I land. So when approached about getting off the plane it’s completely unexpected, a shock, and the natural reaction would be to resist as their must be some mistake.
The airline has plenty of advance info to handle these issues prevoarding, and if something comes up post boarding then whoever is not in a seat should have to take the next flight.
I don’t really see either as the good guys.
This “doctor” should have just got off the plane. It isnt a public bus, it is a private company that CAN tell you to get off if they choose. Go sue them after that if he feels slighted.
Now was the force they used excessive? I don’t know. The question is that would you want security on an airplane to be wimpish? If we can demand guns on planes to make terrorist think twice about pulling anything, then bringing on security to remove a guy that was being somewhat entitled in the face of normal company policy, regardless if is considered unfair, isnt as appalling as many are making it out to be.
But like I said, neither look all that great in the end.
“when in fact the airline opted to toss off paying passengers so that four employees could enjoy free travel.”
Weren’t they staff that were needed to work another flight?
I don’t think this was some fun free travel perk. They were going to work.
If what UA did as far as randomly choosing 4 people to exit the aircraft, what do you believe should have been done with the passenger who refused to leave the aircraft?
Actually it is a big difference. The airport authority is going to pay big times for the actions of these rent-a-thugs.
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