Speaking of garbage is your reply. The issue was interference with a flight crew. The punishment can be severe. This doofus stopped the flight from departing — he interfered with it. The captain would have been well within his rights to have this guy removed by force. “Booking” my tuchis. This guy is already a convicted felon.
The cel phone video contains his shrieking and refusal to move until moved by others. He wasn’t injured except for the bloody lip he earned by fighting with police. Lucky it wasn’t worse. Unconscious? Where did you come up with that one? He was so “unconscious” that once off the plane and pulled free and ran back on board.
We can disagree. He didn’t shriek until he was grabbed.He ran back on the plane dazed after he was left unconscious while the “cops” went to get a stretcher.
I think it will be settled in court or by a settlement. The United Airlines CO changed his tune when he saw the video and admitted wrong doing on their part, poor judgement and improper procedures. You can continue to cheerlead for brutalizing a passenger who only sat in his seat and wanted to undertake the journey he paid for but United has admitted they were wrong.
Airline employees have enhanced authority because of terrorism and saftey concerns but with authority comes responsibility to act in a fair, reasonable, measured manner proportionate to the circumstances. They can’t just push their weight around without repercussions. We are about to see those repercussions ripple through the industry.
P.S. You are aware that the felon is actually another Vietnamese doctor with a similar first & last name but different middle name? Any past crime, punishment etc would in any case be completely irrelevant.
Any of us could be treated this way the next time if we demurred that “we need to get to a job interview, mother dying etc, please could you pick some one else or actually offer $ for volunteers instead of vouchers”.
The bloody lip he earned while fighting with cops? He got that when he was thrown headfirst into an armrest, how on Earth is that “fighting with cops”??
And again, this wasn’t a case of overbooking, it was a case of four employees they needed to fly to another destination and they were too cheap to charter a small plane.
Something tells me that if you were posting about the Triangle Shirt Factory that burned all those employees to death, you’d be posting “those employees had no right to destroy company property, those padlocked doors were owned by the company and it was against company policy to try and remove them!”