“The only issue that occurred was the amount of force needed to remove the passenger from the airplane by a police officer.”
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Yup, anything else is just smoke-screening. It was airport rent-a-cops from what I understand, by the way.
And if such a person grabbed me like that, he'd have two hyper-extended and likely broken elbows for his trouble.
They were Chicago Department of Aviation security officers. Interestingly, the Chicago PD (which was not involved in the incident) released a statement saying the guy fell and injured himself!
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...a Chicago Police news affairs officer — not the aviation cops — initially released a statement to an unnamed media outlet saying that a “69-year-old male Asian airline passenger” became “irate” aboard the flight and that aviation officers “attempted to carry the individual off the flight when he fell.
http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/video-appears-to-show-passenger-being-removed-from-united-flight/