Cop laughed as man was dragged off flight: witness [United Airlines]

NY Post ^ | April 13, 2017 | Natalie Musumeci

[Ken H]

A passenger aboard United Airlines Flight 3411 said that one of the three officers who dragged a Kentucky doctor off the plane was “laughing” during the chaotic episode.

In a “Letter to the Editor” published in the Chicago Tribune this week, Louisville, Kentucky, resident Jason Powell wrote how he was a witness to the Sunday incident that involved David Dao, 69, being physically dragged off a full flight before takeoff at O’Hare Airport.

“The disgusting mishandling of the situation included everyone from the rude ticket agent who demanded that this man give up his seat on the flight … to one of the officers laughing in the midst of the incident, to the violent, abusive way the passenger was dragged off the plane by the officer,” Powell wrote.

[2nd amendment mama]

Try looking words you don't understand up in the dictionary:

hear·say

ˈhirˌsā/

noun

noun: hearsay

1. information received from other people that one cannot adequately substantiate; rumor.

   "according to hearsay, Bob had managed to break his arm"

   synonyms:

   rumor, gossip, tittle-tattle, idle talk; More stories, tales; informalthe grapevine, scuttlebutt, loose lips "that's all hearsay, and I don't care to listen to such tripe"

   • Law

     the report of another person's words by a witness, usually disallowed as evidence in a court of law.

If a person actually sees something and testifies that is an "eye-witness" and that testimony is allowed. This person was on the plane and stated what he saw - not reporting what other people told him!!! EYEWITNESS.

eye·wit·ness

ˈīˌwitnəs/

noun

noun: eyewitness; plural noun: eyewitnesses; noun: eye-witness; plural noun: eye-witnesses

1. a person who has personally seen something happen and so can give a first-hand description of it.

   "eyewitness accounts of the London blitz"

   synonyms:

   observer, onlooker, witness, bystander, spectator, watcher, viewer, passerby, gawker; literarybeholder "several eyewitnesses were questioned by the police"

[RitaOK]

Yes, I corrected the usage in my reply, from the inadvertent space error, in my first comment. Thx.