Man violently removed from United Airlines plane. ~Update~ United may have broken the law.

[VGPolyglot]

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.

Actually, I didn't know that to be honest. It makes sense though, the police enforce the will of legislators while security guards enforce the will of corporations.