He was asked to get off the plane. He was then ordered off the plane. He was then confronted by police who ordered him off the plane. What happened next was the logical outcome. He was forcibly removed. He asked for it and he got it. The time to argue is after you get off. It’s is just like resisting a police order because it was. Just like if a cop is wrong pulling you over and even arresting you his order is best obeyed. Once you go down the path of making a cop force (see the word force) you to comply it will probably hurt (see the word force again). Don’t want force applied to you then comply. Not saying if he was or wrong on the issue itself just that once ordered off it was time to go.
Now if you could just get the United Pilots Union to agree that the level of force used was acceptable:
‘This occurred on one of our contracted Express carriers, separately owned and operated by Republic Airline, and was ultimately caused by the grossly inappropriate response by the Chicago Department of Aviation,’ the pilots wrote according to Business Insider.
‘The safety and well-being of our passengers is the highest priority for United pilots, and this should not have escalated into a violent encounter,’ the union’s written statement read.
‘United pilots are infuriated by this event.’
Very good point and well stated. Security isn’t going to start using physical force on a compliant passenger. He was obviously resisting, and probably quite aggressively, for security to respond in the way they did.