Boycott United Airlines

They over book their own flight, asked for volunteers to leave, and when no one wanted to, assulted, bloodied and knocked out a 69 year old doctor and dragged him unconscious down the isle. Fucking despicable. He had to fly to see a patient. They did this so their own staff could sit instead of him. And I dont think its a coincidence he is asian, and not white.

As Asian, I feel devastated, and am deeply concerned about this.

Here’s an account from the Guardian, usually a reliable news source, and one from the Washington Post (via the New Zealand Herald, because I’ve used up my WaPo articles for the month and the Herald has no paywall).  It looks as if first the cabin crew were high-handed and unpleasant about asking passengers to give up their seats for airline staff and then the police they called on board for assistance escalated to using force for no good reason.