Originally Posted by
NorthwestFlyer
Just Saw the United Airlines Re-Accommodation video shot from the beginning. Dr. Dao was real surly before the incident and told the flight attendant that he was going to Sue 'United Airlines' before he was even touched. The plot thickens
Before the incident, as in before he was being physically assaulted by UA's thuggish henchmen? He wasn't "surly" on the video compared to what passes for being in the range of normal UA GA attitude. Rather he was very smartly dealing with another party while keeping rather calm in the face of being threatened with IDB or worse. And as we know, UA and its henchmen made it worse.
Originally Posted by
lazard
He was already on the phone with his lawyer.
As makes sense when already being subjected to threats from the police and from the airline with which there is a valid contract. Was his being on the phone with a lawyer the reason the airline and its henchmen became so awfully aggressive and wanted to strike him hard? This wouldn't be the first time extra-legal punishment was delivered to mess around with a person of means for seeking to exercise their legal rights by seeking counsel before making any cowering move.