Originally Posted by
minnyfly
I can't believe you want to empower and legalize extortion. Unbelievable.
Extortion: "the practice of obtaining something, especially money, through force or threats"
It seems clear to me that it was United doing the extortion in this case. They had all the power in this situation, including the power to leverage off of and threaten the use of violence through state sanctioned actors. The idea that it was the 69-year old 'extorting' United when he had paid for his ticket, had a reasonable expectation not to be pulled from the plane and it was United who used both physical force and threats to remove him to obtain an outcome in their interests does not make any sense to me.