Except the police don't have that right at all.
I have already explained why the police can't do what they did.
Read the laws I posted.
There is no 'conspiracy' here. If the police have a warrant, they have the right to enter your house without your consent. If they have an arrest warrant, they have the right to take you to a special place without your consent. You have explained nothing.
But here is a perspective from someone who used to work in the industry....
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianrayca
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Brian Rayca, former Gate Agent at United Airlines (1999-2006)
I was a gate agent for United Airlines for six years. I dealt with countless oversales, most of them customers were not even aware the flight was oversold. There is a lot of misinformation and sanctimonious BS surrounding this incident. Here are a few facts:
Republic Airlines required a crew to deadhead to Louisville. This was not just pulling passengers for employees, this was an operational issue. This was not a United scheduling issue. Oscar Munoz has taken responsibility while Republic has remained silent.
The flight was not oversold. It was full, but not oversold.
A full flight of passengers was waiting for the crew to come to Louisville. Deny them boarding for one man, and dozens more would have been inconvenienced.
The contract allows the airline to move and re-accommodate passengers.
Three of the four passenger needed walked off the flight like adults at the polite request of the ground crew and flight crew.
Federal law requires passengers to comply with the instructions of the crew.
The Police were called when Dao refused to give up his seat, because the employees cannot forcibly remove someone from the plane.
It was the apolice who bloodied Dao as he struggled
Dao has a history of anger management issues and outbursts
Now with those facts above in mind here is my assment. United Airlines is guilty of taking away the flexibility gate agents used to have in offering compensation to volunteers. That is all. That is the only part of this situation that was under United Airlines and Oscar Munoz’s control. The FAA makes the crew rest regulations, Republic Airlines controlled the crew scheduling, Dao refused to Move and the Police bloddied him. None of which Oscar Munoz has control over.
Dr. Dao is responsible for the fight with the police. His obstinate refusal to act as an adult is responsible for the police being called. That being said the police were heavy handed in removing him. But the video shows Dao pitching a fit. After being asked by the United employees very politely. Passengers have restrained fellow passengers when they failed to comply with crew instructions and the internet has backed them.
So the internet is also to blame for the digital lynch mob against United, and Munoz. Their ignorance of the facts, the law and their eagerness to believe Dao was just a innocent victim are all to blame as well.
Let me tell you what would likely have happened had Dao walked off the flight as he'd been asked. Dao would have received the compensation offfered. Chicago, being a hub for American, the agents would have likely looked to AA and rebooked him on that carrier at United’s expense. Failing that they might have looked to Midway, and seen if Southwest might have a flight, paid for ground transportation and that flight as well. How do I know this? Because that's how we handled bad situations. Going so far as to charter a bus to get people to airports to fly them. Because our contract says to take care of passengers and get them to their final destination. Dao in his juvenile actions never got to find out what the airline would do for him. But he did dare the police to take him to jail.
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The above were Rayca's words, not mine.
And here is what
WILL happens in the coming days, after all the hoopla died and UA properly embarrassed...
Passengers in that flight will come out and give their versions of what happened. Some, if not most, will be anonymous for fear of their lives being threatened by strangers, but they will be motivated by the truth of what happened. While they will not be kind to UA, neither will they be sympathetic to Dao. Already, there are people like Rayca who gave their unsympathetic opinions -- about both sides -- on what happened.
Dao will sue, will settle out of court, and the settlement will be sealed. Not because UA is embarrassed but to discourage copycats in future events. UA will change its policies, but the laws will remain as is, which gives not only UA but the entire industry the same situation and flexibility as before with each airline the option of changing its policy or not. There will be the usual 'sensitivity' training programs -- led by overpaid pseudo experts -- for airline employees, but nothing will really change at the macro level.
The reason I am with the professionals, but not necessarily with UA, is because I came from their industry -- aviation -- albeit from the military perspective. I fully understand what non-aircraft agents, like Mr Rayca, and aircraft agents like flight attendants (FA), have to put up with in their daily duties. The crew is literally responsible for hundreds of people for a few hrs, a short break, then the responsibility cycle begins again. With each passenger load, the same variations of human characters and personalities are in their collective lap.
THAT is how little is between you and death for that few hrs time span where the crew is responsible for your life. They cannot afford to have people like Dao on board. By that, I mean behaviors that Dao exhibited on the ground. In many ways, it was a good thing that Dao acted the way he did and got removed because if he misbehaves in flight, I can guarantee you that things will be much worse for Dao and literally no one will be sympathetic to him as he stews in his seat in misery while restrained for the flight.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...-woman-gives-birth-on-turkish-airlines-flight
A unexpected passenger joined a Turkish Airlines flight when a woman went into labour and gave birth mid-flight.
Do you really think that an aircrew is happy for this kind of event, even a positive one like birth ?
NO, THEY ARE NOT. No matter what they do for the cameras and news reporters. A birth is a serious medical event that no one want to encounter in a metal tube traveling at several hundreds km/h in the air. No doctors are on board despite what the movies may and have portrayed.
If an aircrew does not want a birth in their aircraft, you think they want someone emotionally volatile like Dao ?
