Re:A man wouldn’t leave an overbooked United flight, so he w...
by cmurf on Monday April 10, 2017 @05:28PM
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I agree. Someone who has committed no crime, and no breach of the contract of carriage, has the right if not the responsibility to resist police power. It's a misuse of power. United should not have requested police presence and the police should have refused to intervene.
Otherwise this becomes might makes right.
If he had just left when the police arrived, as commenters above you are suggesting, then that would mean that the threat of violence was a successful solution to United's mistake, and we'd never have heard about it.