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Forums - General Discussion - Man violently removed from United Airlines plane. ~Update~ United may have broken the law.

Porcupine_I on 13 April 2017
SpokenTruth said:
Porcupine_I said:

Are they? I'm pretty sure it said "Police" on their outfits. It should not be legal for a security company to pose as Police.

In the US, the word police is legally allowed to be used by all private security entitites.   In fact, the legal distinction is public police (sponsoreed by a government body) and private police (sponsored by a private corporation). When they are private, common language simply calls them security though they are technically police.

Some airport police are actually a branch of the local public police department but Chicago O'Hare is not one of them.

Ok, thank you for explaining. It still feels weird to me.



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Soundwave on 13 April 2017

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Azuren on 19 April 2017
Soundwave said:
Azuren said:

The cops aren't at fault. They were called in to deal with something flight related, which has serious implications. If you resist, you can expect force in return. 

This is false. Police/security don't have carte blanche to do as they please just because of resistance. You damn well are right there's going to be a full investigation if you smash some 69-year-old's face in and you are going to have to answer for how you handled the situation. 

Cops ARE allowed to detain you, and resistance will only result in your own personal injury. Excessive use of force is illegal, yes, but this wasn't excessive use of force. This was a guy freaking the fuck out and getting himself hurt.



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SvennoJ on 27 April 2017

Time for another update: https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2017/04/27/dragged-passenger-david-dao-reaches-settlement-with-united-airlines.html

United already settled with David Dao before he could file a law suit and raised the maximum payment for getting bumped to $10k. The settlement amount is to remain confidential and United has accepted full responsibility to prevent any lawsuit against the city.

I wonder what his price was.