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.
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?
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.
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.
And I don’t either.
Tyler Bridges should be ashamed. Such force used on a citizen when no crime had been committed is illegal, and in this case has the appearance of a hate crime.
Before its over United will not only pay damages for false arrest, negligence, abrogation of civil rights of freedom of movement and travel ( freedom of assembly), assault and battery, breach of contract, and punitive damages ( triple).
United will be paying a cool few million to the good doctor, who I believe is Korean.
Tyler Bridges can’t tell money hole from corn hole.
“resisting”
That was the man’s “crime”?
The whole affair was United’s fault. United should have BOUGHT their 4 standby crew members tickets on another airline leaving near the same time, going the same way, so they’d be where they wanted them later on.
Alternatively, they should have kept offering more money until enough passengers voluntarily gave their seat up.
I saw a video yesterday of the run-up to this man’s dragging and assault. The only resisting he was doing was saying “no”.
Is that Ric Flair?
Hard to see under all that customer service covering him.
This all could/can be handled at or before the airport terminal.
Stupid, stupid, stupid.
Now lets get back to real news (see Norkies’ missile launch)
Doubt we know the whole story of what happened. Of course the evil big corporation is going to get blamed, but did he have any responsibility?
I have a feeling that United is going to continue to be front and center every day in the press until it gets knocked off the page by North Korea.
Well, Tyler....this man PAID for his seat, was in his seat and hell yes, he “resisted”.
I do not see that YOU jumped up and offered to be bumped.
No instead you videoed it and then snaked about it.
STFU.
The United CEO - Oscar Munoz is an MBA making almost $6 million dollars a year in salary and bonuses.
He has exercisable stock options valued at more than ONE BILLION DOLLARS!!!
But the airline is run like it’s being managed by Josef Stalin and the Marx Brothers comedy team..
https://s15.postimg.org/4p14h0l5n/MUNOZ_BIO.png
What I want to know is why none of the people on the plane that were so upset about it, like the loud blond lady, would offer up their seat? I would have except that I refuse to fly while the NSA exists.
Easy for him to say since he was not the person who had his seat taken away.
If he was so cool about the jackboots beating up a passenger, then why didn’t he volunteer to give up his seat for the coupon being offered by United?
