Not the best way to handle overbooking

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:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

United's stock value is taking a bit of a beating after all of this. This was just a really stupid move on United's part no matter how someone might try and spin it.
 

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:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

United's stock value is taking a bit of a beating after all of this. This was just a really stupid move on United's part no matter how someone might try and spin it.
To be completely fair, though United handled the situation with incredible lack of grace, it was actually Chicago Aviation Division security that administered the beat-down.
 

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Especially Doctors that get busted for writing fake Rxs for cash or trade for gay sex.

Doctor dragged off United flight was felon who traded prescription drugs for secret gay sex with patient half his age and took them himself - and he needed anger management, was 'not forthright' and had control issues, psychiatrist found

Dr David Dao's troubled medical past is revealed in court documents
His wife Teresa - also a doctor - reported him to medical authorities and his secret inappropriate gay relationship with a patient was revealed

Father of five, 69, was convicted of a felony - but avoided prison time - because he was giving the man prescription drugs in return for gay sex

He denied the gay sex even though he was caught on camera shirtless and in his pants with Brian Case, his lover, 26, who was a fellow worshiper at his church

Case said he believed that Dao wanted to hook him on prescription narcotics including Oxycontin so he would keep coming to him for gay sex

Psychiatrist found Vietnamese-born doctor had series of issues and one doctor wrote that he 'he would unilaterally chose to do his own thing'

He only got his licence back after agreeing to be drug tested and polygraphed

United are facing a furious backlash and boycott calls over the video; their stock price plunged as Wall Street reacted to passenger fury

DailyMail.com also reveals that the airline told staff he had 'tried to strike law enforcement' - despite no evidence for that on the video
 

Twila

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yes, by all means lets smear the victim. Cause big business ya'all. pfffft!


From the article:

While the piece sullies Dao, it doesn’t delve into the background of the CDA or Chicago Police Department (CPD). CDA officers were reportedly the only officers on the plane, but the CPD nonetheless saw fit to release a statement describing Dao as “irate” and “yelling.” The CPD’s statement attributes no blame to officers or the airline for the man’s injuries.

The Courier-Journal piece doesn’t mention that in the 10-year stretch between 2004 and 2014, the CPD paid out more than $500 million in brutality settlements and legal fees.

Nor does it attempt to explain why the CDA placed one officer who was involved in the Dao incident on leave but not the other two who can be seen manhandling him in videos.
It also doesn’t attempt to explain the shocking degree of force used by CDA agents. An industry expert who spoke to the Chicago Sun-Times, Robert Mann Jr., said he’s “never seen a passenger forcibly removed unless it involved an unruly passenger of some sort.”
Also omitted is any discussion of United’s overbooking policy that created the problem in the first place.
The New York Post ran a piece similar to the Courier-Journal’s under the headline, “Doctor dragged off flight was convicted of trading drugs for sex.” The Post also doesn’t contain Dao’s side of the story or delve into the background of the CPD, CDA, or United

https://thinkprogress.org/media-out...ited-airlines-brutality-incident-28f9405405c5
 

Twila

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Maybe he shouldn't have been belligerent?

is that the word you use when someone decides they don't want to do what's been ASKED?


I guess you do everything you're asked regardless, eh?

Maybe cops should learn to "use their words?"

maybe they should learn to keep their hands to themselves, then they don't have to fork out 50mill in settlement money for being 'handy'