OMG the man was Chinese

[samintx]

billb wrote:
Yes, security took him off the plane because of his ethnicity, not because of his belligerence and refusal to cooperate.

No not because of his ethnicity…you are missing the point. With our Political Correctness sensitivity now days it would be perceived in a different light because he WAS not a White European type. People are not looking at his belligerence they are looking that he was of a different RACE. If he had been white the first thoughts would be his belligerence and lack of cooperation NOT his RACE.

The people were supposed selected with an algorithm not by ethnicity. He also is a convicted felon and not an accredited Doctor.

Dr. Dragged Off United Airlines Flight Is A Convicted Felon
Posted on April 11, 2017
LOS ANGELES, Ca. (WBAP/KLIF News) — TMZ reported this morning that the passenger who was famously dragged out of his seat onboard a United Airlines passenger jet in Chicago is a medical doctor with a messy legal history.

Dr. David Dao has a history of trafficking in illegal drugs going back to 2005 when he was charged with 98 felony counts of illegally prescribing prescriptions for hydrocodone, Oxycontin and Percocet. He was convicted on six counts and given five years probation after surrendering his medical license in Kentucky.

TMZ reports Dr. Dao was also convicted of writing prescriptions in exchange for sex.

In 2015 the Kentucky medical board restored Dao’s license with the restriction that he is only allowed to practice in an outpatient facility one day a week.

Filed Under: 24/7 Newsroom News, WBAP 24/7 News

[S. Pupp]

Being allowed to practice medicine at all is far too lenient for a physician with 98 felony counts of illegal narcotic prescriptions and trading prescriptions for sex.

[$tevie]

All of this doesn't answer the question "if a person says they don't want to be removed from the flight, why not ask somebody else"?

I fail to understand why the crew didn't just say, oh screw it, and ask around for a volunteer.

[JoeH]

S. Pupp wrote:
Being allowed to practice medicine at all is far too lenient for a physician with 98 felony counts of illegal narcotic prescriptions and trading prescriptions for sex.

There is a difference in being charged with 98 counts and being convicted. He was convicted of 6 counts. But anyways, so he is not the poster boy for being the best person, that was 10+ years ago. The restriction to a single day to practice medicine in an outpatient clinic might explain his insistence on getting back for Monday.

[samintx]

I am hearing there is some legal paragraph in your plane ticket that says an airline can bump you, they can chose how to pick who is bumped, and you agree to this when you buy the ticket. Something under the Consumer rights…..

It does erk me tho that bumping was for employees NOT any emergency. I would take the $800 and delay except my experience with AA is they put me in a Motel that I think was a brothel. Dirty and miles from the airport.

[decay]

Overbooking is complete bullspit.

[rjmacs]

The solution to this problem was listed on the other side already:

Want to avoid being bumped from a commercial flight like this guy? Just buy a more expensive ticket!

To paraphrase Capitalist Spiderman: "With great wealth comes no responsibility."

[Lemon Drop]

OK I'm just now reading this story and it's truly bizarre that a person could get so roughed up over an overbooked flight. I'm also suspicious of a lot of conflicting reporting on this incident:
There's this from the BBC:

However a passenger who sat next to him told BBC Radio 5 Live that he said he was originally from Vietnam and had been living in Louisville, Kentucky, for about 20 years.

Ms Bridges in her post said: "This man is a doctor and [said he had] to be at the hospital in the morning. He did not want to get off." She added that everyone on board was "shaky and so disgusted".
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-39562288

[Lemon Drop]

Actually after reading this, it's worse than I thought for United:

http://fortune.com/2017/04/10/united-air...upsetting/

They removed four passengers because they needed to put United employees on the flight. Shame on them, really. It's true they offered $800 for volunteers but still there's no excuse to treat anyone the way this man was treated. United is going to be writing this doctor a very big check.

[rjmacs]

What's particularly sickening to me is the number of people here who parrot America's favorite racist maxim:

"If he had just obeyed the authorities in the moment, and filed a complaint later, none of this would have happened."