[TheDaddy]

Originally Posted by Mick

Just thought this is not technically an over booking. The seats needed were for United Staff.

I'm wondering though how 4 United Airlines staff were needed more than a Doctor.

At a guess they might say other planes couldn't take of without those four staff and it'd inconvenience thousands of people rather than the four they boot of. Might be interesting to know exactly where the four were needed and why they weren't already there and was there an alternative like driving them there.

Originally Posted by adzii_nufc

So we can confirm it was Police and not private security. Just another ordinary example of Police brutality. It's alright, he fell though, then he slid down the aisle. It's a good thing he slid down the aisle on his back then, if it was exposed they might have shot him.

Obviously going off multiple sources and included in that link

This is actually what happened according to witnesses. Don't stop there though, you can see exactly that in the video, they pull him over the first armrest and he gets dragged face first into the next one.

So back to the earlier. UA should compensate him for the absolute embarrassment of all of this which I'm sure they're going to do along with a statement distancing themselves from the model police officers. Noting had they not insisted their staff board the plane, none of this would've happened.

He should sue regarding the Police issue, all three should be instantly suspended pending assault investigations, people have pointed out elsewhere that he and his lawyer are likely trying to get both in court at the same time on the same lawsuit. Noting that this could've been avoided had UA either upped their offer or just you know like Paul said, made other arrangements for their staff. This might make headway into absolutely stopping airlines forcibly removing people from planes, as earlier, that happens all the time, mostly without a fracas like this one, but it's still bs in all cases.


Again from the above article:

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They're setting up to literally deny the entire thing despite a video showing they're complete liars. What a broken system they have.
Also, he re-appeared 10 minutes later? They dragged him off and then just walked off? or what? Top blokes these lot, real professionals.

Whilst we're at it, we can use technicalities like the flight not actually being oversold at all, I wonder if there's anything in their bs contracts that protects UA from removing people for their own staff.

Witness account:



So not only did they assault a 69 year old man, they then lost him, these guys are the real deal, Chicago's finest.

Turns out he was indeed suspended: https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/2017...icer-suspended

Wonder if the manager is still laughing, $1600 seems cheap at twice the price considering the bad publicly, cancellations and law suits this is bound to cause.