If I'm in the subway, I'm a paying passenger. I agreed to abide by the regulations by buying a ticket. So did the a$$hole next to me.
BTW, in your little fantasy world where your right to be an a$$hole trumps everyone else's rights, the end result is the same: a fellow citizen will get tired of your s**t and shoot you in the back.
The issue here isn't whether or not there should be rules on the subway. And it isn't a question of should these people should have been kicked out or even cited for their behavior.
The issue is the insane overreaction and complete disconnect between the level of offense and the severity of the response.
Take for example the pregnant woman. I don't care how belligerent she got. The ONLY time such force against such a person is justified is when they are an immediate threat to the life or limb of another. And a bad attitude falls several orders of magnitude short of that threshold. Imagine the response to anyone else but the 'King's men' committing such an assault!
And cuffing a 12 year old...?
LOL!
How did I know that your solution to life's little problem like eating a candy bar on a subway is to shoot someone in the back?