Feds looking into United incident.

[Cattledog]

Link to tweet

[MontanaMama]

1. UA ought to be fined into

the ground. This garbage doesn't stop unless it hurts them where it counts. We're losing and may have already lost our humanity in this country. This won't be the last time we see this happen. This was a 69 year old man FFS!!! We're ALL fair game, I guess.

[malaise]

2. All he wanted to do was return home to see his patients

This is fugging madness

They should be sued, fined and boycotted

[MontanaMama]

3. Yes they should.

This is only the beginning...if they get away with it, we can all expect this to happen on any flight. Nobody is safe.

[warmfeet]

5. I would like to see UA go bankrupt.

To hell with them.

[stillcool]

4. having the "feds" looking into it...

does not bring to mind the image it once did.

[DFW]

6. Having uniformed thugs beat an unarmed doctor to a bloody pulp is worthy of notice.

An airport, especially a big international one such as Chicago, is a federally controlled area. Even in the era of Trump, this is worth federal attention.

United blessed this carnage, only started getting contrite due to the international attention. Initially, they saw nothing wrong with their actions. THAT is the biggest problem, as I see it.

[dalton99a]

9. Their first "apology" was for the overbook and completely ignored the man.

Fuck United and their apologists

[DFW]

10. I would pay money to know....

What was the first reaction of UA's CEO when he saw the photos of the doctor beaten bloody?

Second question--DID UA's president even see those photos?

[geek tragedy]

11. I think he saw them and thought some variant of

"oh fuck."

[DFW]

12. Let's hope.

If what he thought was "dumbass got what he deserved" then it explains in the first place why United acted the way the did initially--following set company procedure. THAT should give pause to anyone willing to consider taking that airline EVER again. If I were Lufthansa, I'd be looking for a new partner, right about now. It's been a while (like 72 years in the West, 28 in the East) since Germans approved that kind of jack-booted thug carrying out official duties in that manner.

[geek tragedy]

14. To clarify, he would have been concerned about stock price

not with how UAL treats its customers.

[Trekologer]

15. It wasn't an overbook

In the sense that they sold two tickets for the same seat

United needed to get a crew for a flight the next day to Louisville and decided to bump 4 paying passengers from that one. If they couldn't get volunteers, they should have figured out a different way to transport the crew.

[Ilsa]

7. God almighty, if it ever went to SCOTUS I could only imagine

the opinion written by gory Gorsuch supporting United's right to shove passengers out the door at 35,000 feet.

[BannonsLiver]

8. Great, they'll probably try to deport the poor man on top of everything else

[gyroscope]

13. Welcome to the Police States of America

There was a time when this kind of thing only happened in third world dictatorships like N. Korea.

The US has literally turned into the Soviet Union.