So i read many comments but I haven't read all of them here. The way I understand it is that the rule is for overbooking is before they board the plane not after boarding. The policy does not allow for forcing the removal of passengers after they have already boarded the plane. The rules do state you can not allow them to board the plane because of overbooking and offer compensation.

The thing is that elder Asian male had a seat and had a boarding pass. I dont believe he was one of guys in overbooking queue. Even if he was overbooking, but hes already boarded. The UA somehow wanted to board their employees after all these and what they decided is to forcefully kick out random 4 guys on the airplane, what a crap.

Good on him for staying in his seat.

This shit is fucked up. I hope he sues their asses.

The airline is just incredibly stupid. They were being cheap and that is what they get for it. It was obvious that this scenario will delay the flight and every delay is a very expensive matter for any airline. They could've easily offered everyone $10,000. I'm sure at least 4 out of the 80 passengers would've took that offer.
Now they got an 2 hour delay, which alone causes them to lose more than $40,000, lawsuit, bad PR etc.

btw. the guy who dragged him out was already fired.

Someone is about to get rich from the incoming lawsuit.

Interesting fact for those trying to defend United trying to get their own people on board the man was a Doctor needed to work the following day which is why he could not volunteer to leave save for the fact Airlines actually aren't allowed to remove you from a plane after you've boarded if you're not a health and safety issue.

Seriously, people here tell me they would comply with someone who picks them randomly to be removed from a plane for reasons that are neither their responsibility nor their fault?

Additionally they have been randomly picked by the people who's fault it was in the first place.

I don't think so.

The man did absolutely nothing wrong. He bought a ticket, he was assigned a seat and he was let on board.

Besides, if they used that bribe money to buy regular tickets on another airline, it would have probably been cheaper.

First of all, no I'm not "acting" in any way... I said multiple time that this is not even the problem here. United may be wrong in the way they overbooked the flight or whatever other reasons they had to remove 4 people from it. But again, that's not even the point...
Second, this has been seen before and explained multiple times, even if you have your own rules about how things are taking prescedence on others, 4 empployees means most likely that they were a crew for another flight resulting in a very bad chain reaction in delays etc for a LOT of people in another airport... I mean, it sucks for the guy but it happens and you coming out with your "lie" accusation will not change it. How do you know that? How do you know better than anyone else the reason United had to abosultly get those 4 employees to the other airport? 

The guy bought a ticket with a contract on it. I mean it sucks; I would HATE to have to -deplane for that too... Like really; I would be pissed.

But no matter what is the reason, at the end when cops are coming and ask you (first peacefully) to de-plane; you de-plane... You just do it and then you can fill a complain, sue the company or whatever... But you listen to the authorities.  

Good for you you don't care about your rights and blindfully listen to authorities, even when they're abused by the airline.

How much is violence worth to you? How far could the airline have gone with offering money to volunteers to deplane? Is $800 dollars already too much and violence is a better solution? Should they have offered $1600 first to find any takers? $5000?

The airline caused their own delay. They could have found nother way to get the employees there or call in other people for work for that day at the other location. They were in the wrong to deplane already boarded people. They created a bad situation and handled it even worse.