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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 12 2017, @08:58PM
I say let him. Corporations are scum, cops are scum, and this whole thing is about scum. The guy should get tens of millions in compensation, if only to take that money away from the scum.
You bring up an interesting point though. Do people that hate on "SJWs" take issue with the Social Justice goal itself, or do they actually take issue with anybody getting back more than they deserve for being wronged? It seems like it's the latter, at least for you. Because first of all, there is no Social Justice goal at play here at all - unless you consider "old white male getting what he payed for and is legally entitled to instead of being arbitrarily beaten by government agents" a Social Justice problem. And if you think that United is going to change its ways just because of penalties equal to the man's actual economic loss, think again. A penalty less than $100,000 is chump change to an organization of that size.
But sure, go right on ahead thinking that there is a dangerous element to our society that threatens to destroy our values with their moral crusades. Then look in the mirror, because it's you and the rest of your corporations-cops-and-authorities-in-general-are-always-right scum.