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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This poor man is 69 years old I think. With his face/image plastered all over the internet without his permission.  On the one hand it is good for videos to show how poorly people get treated in situations where it is likely the offending party (United) will deflect, deny, victim blame; but on the other the videos have gone viral and this poor man never agreed or gave his permission for them to be distributed.  We all know what he looks like.  Some speculate he isn't mentally sound when he renters the plane, etc.  who know?!  I wasn't there.  I am not him.  I think of my elderly father, who is 70.  Holy shit, being manhandled like that, dragged out of a plane, everyone standing around taking videos but no one offering their seat.  Imagine how he feels today.  I would be embarrassed, even when United is totally in the wrong.  Poor guy.[/quote]

Exactly. I also thought about my father, and people who are not native speakers. Imagine the indignity, confusion ... and worse, what if that caused him a heart attack or another irreversible damage? There's a point in which these by the book rules need to be weighed against reality and humanity. Somehow I feel the enforcement was partly driven by racism. If the  passenger was some heavy set white male, or another"protected " (=privileged,) category , like a serviceman in uniform etc, I highly doubt the process  would have been the same. [/quote]

The serviceman would be used to following orders from people in authority, so indeed I don't think there would be a need to drag such a person out of the plane.

3 other people on that flight were bumped also. They left without needing to be dragged out.[/quote]

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