Originally Posted by
rsteinmetz70112
While the "optics" may be bad, Southwest is entirely within it's legal rights to prohibit video recording in it's aircraft.
Also the person who recorded the incident also advocated for the parent, which could easily be construed as interfering with the flight crew.
For interference to come into play, a passenger would have to have assaulted or intimidated a flight crew member. Advocating for (at least in the form that we saw in the video) is neither assault nor intimidation (in the legal sense of the word).