| Imaginedvl said: Don't think you are following here. United being wrong or not is not why the dude got hurt... Not at all and nobody is even arguing with that. |
The point is that United had ZERO right to ask him to exit the plane. When companies overbook, they can block people from boarding, but they can't remove the ones that already boarded. So, if the plane is full and an extra guy tries to board, they may deny it. They can't remove someone so he can board. Also, there was no extra paying passenger: they wanted to fly their workers. And they intended to remove a PAYING customer to do so.
You're also trying to defend them while they removed him with such brutality that he was knocked out. They can't do that. Do you see any of the security guys hurt? No, they are fine. The guy is a bloody mess. It's clear that they used disproportional force to remove an old dude when they had no right to do so. The guy is 69 year old and they could never, ever, hurt him like that. And they tried to argue that a 69-year old man posed such a threat to security guys that were significantly stronger and younger than him so they had to use blunt force. That's the kind of argument I expect from kindergarden childs trying to cover up an obvious mess.
So I really can't see why you're defending the company when they clearly acted wrongly when trying to enforce something they were wrong in the first place in different ways for doing so.
