They don’t have a right to force any individual passenger off the plane once they’ve boarded you. united’s right is to refuse boarding in the first place, but once you’re on the plane they can’t bump you for someone else.
Pretending like it’s his fault because he’s refusing to comply with an arbitrary and abusive exercise of power is the worst kind of authoritarian thinking. I’m sure the cops that senselessly beat him said it was his fault for not complying too.
“They don’t have a right to force any individual passenger off the plane once they’ve boarded you.”
They most definitely do. It happens many, many times every day. Drunks get pulled off daily. You are very much incorrect.