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[SydneyH]

I don't condone the manner this man was removed but I'm now hearing some very disturbing things about his background.

[sunala]

There are so many things wrong with what happened, and these are my random thoughts after viewing the videos. 

Was this America in 2017 or Germany in 1944? Pulling people off planes, manhandling them and treating them like a sack of potatoes in our country?

There are going to be a lot of heads rolling after this experience, and I hope they will be the heads of those who are responsible, not this victim, who incidentally, is NOT elderly!  He is 69 years old, and they made him sound like a doddering old man. 

Maybe he was taking some kind of medication to help him relax during flying, as many people do. They either drink or take medication to get them through the flight. Maybe they woke him up and he was disoriented. Whatever it was, they had no right to drag him off the plane like he was cargo. 

Maybe he had trouble with the language? Being Vietnamese, maybe he was having some sort of flashback from the war when he was being dragged? Of course I'm only speculating, but really who knows what his story is?

And now the tabloids are pulling out stories about him from his past, which are totally irrelevant to what happened to him. 

I don't know how this will end up, but I only hope that those who are responsible will be punished. This man was a victim and I hope he will be compensated for his physical and emotional trauma.  

[Melania]

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@SydneyH wrote:

I don't condone the manner this man was removed but I'm now hearing some very disturbing things about his background.

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So?

How does that justify the beating he got or the treament? Keep blaming the victim.

[reiki604]

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@SydneyH wrote:

I don't condone the manner this man was removed but I'm now hearing some very disturbing things about his background.

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His background is irrelevant to this situation and none of anyone else's business. It is an attempt to divert attention from the brutal manner this man was treated and somehow say he deserved it.

[Melania]

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@reiki604 wrote:

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@SydneyH wrote:

I don't condone the manner this man was removed but I'm now hearing some very disturbing things about his background.

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His background is irrelevant to this situation and none of anyone else's business. It is an attempt to divert attention from the brutal manner this man was treated and somehow say he deserved it.

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Amen!!

The despicable airline's stock has dropped too...good.

[Wsmom]

I may have missed this, but did they let everybody board and then randomly select four people and order them off the plane or did they do this prior to boarding and the guy boarded anyway?

[SydneyH]

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@Wsmom wrote:

I may have missed this, but did they let everybody board and then randomly select four people and order them off the plane or did they do this prior to boarding and the guy boarded anyway?

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My understanding is all passengers were already seated, then they started asking for 'volunteers' to debark......

[AngusandBuddhasMom]

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@SydneyH wrote:

I don't condone the manner this man was removed but I'm now hearing some very disturbing things about his background.

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I don't see what this man's past public or private has to do with how he was treated. From what I saw in the video one min he was quietly sitting and the next he is forcibly ripped from his seat and dragged. Nobody else on that plane (including the thug acting on behalf of the airline) who was violently handling him had his past dredged up for all of us to past judgment on.

[itiswhatitis]

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@silentgirl wrote:

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With all due respect, we didn't actually see him acting like a "petulant child," did we? 

Maybe it was there, and I missed it.  But I didn't see a video showing him acting in that way.  I saw him being dragged-

Though I would agree, absolutely, when we are being told to do something by law enforcement, its wise to oblige-

I would rather have seen what did actually occur-everything I've seen was blocked from view-

Was there an actual verbal exchange? Was he given an explanation?  Like; "Sir, you can discuss it when you exit, maybe they'll allow you to continue."

Reports say they allowed him back on the plane -  If that's accurate, he apparently showed proof he needed to be there.

Doctors are just people- we don't know what he may or may not have needed to accomplish or had scheduled with patients-  Maybe he was a surgeon-

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@silentgirl, I didn't see that but I saw his bloody face after the fact.