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Porcupine_I on 13 April 2017
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SpokenTruth said:
Porcupine_I said:
I don't know about the laws in the United States, but i can't believe the police is there to enforce arbitrary rules of a private company.

If the police are called to such a case, their questions should be: "Is there a security concern? Has the man broken any law? Is this a dangerous situation?" If not, you are on your own dealing with this situation.

Those were not the police but rather airport security.  That said, the actual police can still become involved and remove the passenger if they deem him as disturbing the peace and being hostile.

However, that was a horrible display of policy and force.  Unwarranted and United will be feeling the repurcussions of this one right in the financials.

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.



“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.”

- George Orwell, ‘1984’