Originally Posted by jjmoore

After having a night to dwell on the happenings Sunday at ORD, here are a few thoughts:

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4) The forcibly disembarked passenger - guilty - though the legality of this man's removal from the aircraft may be in question with regard to the CoC, the bottom line is that he disobeyed flight attendant and police orders. I feel bad that he was injured in the incident, but the choice was entirely his to make a willful or unwillful exit from the aircraft. We will let the courts decide whether excessive force was used... and if necessary, the authority responsible for those police officers should be held to account for this component of the incident (not UA). UA will have to deal with the legality of the IDB in this man's case.