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Passengers on a United Express flight from Chicago to Louisville, Ky., were horrified when a man was forcibly removed--violently wrenched from his seat and physically dragged down the aisle. [...] Videos of the scene have prompted calls to boycott United Airlines.
[...] The Chicago Department of Aviation [...] says the actions of the security officers were "not condoned by the Department" and that one individual has been placed on leave pending a review.
[...] Passengers had already boarded on Sunday evening [April 10] at O'Hare International Airport when United asked for volunteers to take another flight the next day to make room for four United staff members who needed seats.
The airline offered $400 and a free hotel, passenger Audra D. Bridges told the Louisville Courier-Journal. When no one volunteered, the offer was doubled to $800. When there were still no bites, the airline selected four passengers to leave the flight--including the man in the video and his wife.
"They told him he had been selected randomly to be taken off the flight", Bridges said.
[...] The man said he was a doctor and that he "needed to work at the hospital the next day", passenger Jayse D. Anspach said.
[...] Both Bridges and Anspach posted videos of three security officers, who appear to be wearing the uniforms of Chicago aviation police, wrenching the man out of his seat, prompting wails. His face appeared to strike an armrest. Then they dragged his limp body down the aisle.
Footage shows the man was bleeding from the mouth as they dragged him away. His glasses were askew and his shirt was riding up over his belly.
"It looked like he was knocked out, because he went limp and quiet and they dragged him out of the plane like a rag doll", Anspach wrote.
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(Score: 1, Troll) by art guerrilla on Wednesday April 12 2017, @07:30PM (4 children)
@ that fucktard goody no shoes -
it is cowardly, authoritarian pukes like you who REALLY piss me off... so because you are an ineffectual pantywaist who would nebber ebber DARE to traduce ANY laws, regs, or even vague orders from rent-a-kops, and has no use for actual, real, effective civil rights (because a wormtongue like you would never get close to the limits of 'acceptable behavior'), ALL the rest of us who refuse to live on our knees should just suck it up and take the anal probing with no lube, too, just like you do ? ? ?
fuck you sideways with a pineapple...
maybe you dont mind the USELESS shit sandwiches you are forced to eat everyday, and even smile while chewing it, but i am letting the shit sandwich hit the floor and glaring at a nazi creep serving it...
urine idjit...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 12 2017, @08:18PM
In the (meta)thread, there have been several examples of rogue cops on the public payroll.
Clearly, the answer is privatized cops.
All hail Neoliberalism/Libertarianism!
cowardly, authoritarian pukes like you
[...]
fuck you sideways with a pineapple
Keep posting. I enjoy reading your anti-Authoritarian stuff.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 12 2017, @11:56PM (2 children)
Internet Tough Guy on the loose! Watch out everybody! This guy plays by his own rules! Nobody tells him what to do!
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Thursday April 13 2017, @01:55AM
He does what he wants!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z0-KZS1dDyw [youtube.com]
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 13 2017, @01:59AM
Howdy, toady! Are you a paid government shill, or just a volunteer?