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Call The United Incident What It Is: Police Violence

We thought that we would share this and get your opin­ion on whether this type of law enforce­ment is nec­es­sary, par­tic­u­lar­ly when the per­son being bat­tered paid for the seat he was sit­ting in and had done noth­ing wrong.
The ques­tion has got be what would cause Police to bat­ter a 69 year old man leav­ing him bleed­ing and dazed when all he was guilty of is sit­ting in the seat he paid for.
Over the years we have seen video evi­dence of police beat­ing , body slam­ming and assault­ing peo­ple of all ages. Yet it is even more shock­ing when we wit­ness so-called peace offi­cers who are sup­posed to pro­tect and serve the pub­lic act instead like reg­u­lar thugs.
Which begs the ques­tion, at what stage does an offi­cer say I will not use force on this per­son no mat­ter how right and jus­ti­fied that offi­cer may think he is?

The arti­cle speaks to whether this would have hap­pened to a white woman ? The writer knew quite well that it wouldn’t .
So we have to ask why is it that some peo­ple are treat­ed this way when oth­ers would­n’t be?
Watching Television this morn­ing I saw a woman in the news busi­ness relate to CNN she was paid $11,000.00 to give up seats as well . Only dif­fer­ence for her , her hus­band and daugh­ter on their way from Florida to New York.
They were all white.

By Nick Wing

It’s not just the airline we should be mad at.

Social media explod­ed on Sunday with footage of a police offi­cer wrench­ing a scream­ing man out of his air­plane seat and drag­ging him down the aisle like a rag doll, blood seep­ing from the side of his mouth.

People around the world direct­ed their ire at United Airlines, which offered a cor­po­rate­ly man­i­cured response apol­o­giz­ing for hav­ing to “re-acco­mo­date” 69-year-old doc­tor David Dao and three oth­er cus­tomers to make space for com­pa­ny employ­ees that need­ed seats. United main­tains that it fol­lowed prop­er pro­ce­dure, but some­thing isn’t right about watch­ing Dao get bat­tered and pub­licly humil­i­at­ed sim­ply for insist­ing on sit­ting in a seat he paid for.

Let’s not ignore what we’re see­ing. Yet again, an uncom­fort­able and repul­sive out­burst of state-sanc­tioned vio­lence ― this time at the behest of a mas­sive cor­po­ra­tion ― is cap­ti­vat­ing the nation’s atten­tion. The Chicago Aviation offi­cer was unques­tion­ably bru­tal in this instance, and his actions fol­low a dis­turb­ing trend of U.S. police resort­ing to force, even when it seems to most observers like they’d be bet­ter off avoid­ing it at all costs.

As with most con­tro­ver­sial use-of-force inci­dents, offi­cials will now exam­ine whether the offi­cer act­ed law­ful­ly in this sce­nario. The Chicago Department of Aviation has report­ed­ly placed the offi­cer on admin­is­tra­tive leave pend­ing an inves­ti­ga­tion, and said in a state­ment that it does not con­done his actions. But legal or not, the con­fronta­tion could have larg­er consequences.

Subsequent videos show Dao return to the plane after the alter­ca­tion, say­ing he needs to go home. In one, he appears dis­ori­ent­ed and mut­ters repeat­ed­ly to himself.

The scene is chill­ing, in part because Dao appears to not have received med­ical atten­tion, said Monnica T. Williams, a clin­i­cal psy­chol­o­gist and asso­ciate pro­fes­sor of psy­chol­o­gy at the University of Connecticut who has stud­ied the effects of police brutality.

“I can’t imag­ine see­ing a white woman treat­ed in this way, just left to bleed with pos­si­bly some sort of severe head injury,” she said.

Dao was lat­er tak­en away on a stretch­er, accord­ing to the Associated Press.

United CEO Oscar Munoz blamed Dao for the officer’s reac­tion, call­ing the doc­tor “dis­rup­tive and bel­liger­ent” and sug­gest­ing air­line per­son­nel and police had no choice but to phys­i­cal­ly extract him from the plane.

But if the officer’s actions were nec­es­sary to ensure the plane’s time­ly depar­ture, they cer­tain­ly failed to achieve that goal. The flight was ground­ed for hours after the dis­rup­tion, in order to allow staff to clean Dao’s blood from the cab­in. And in the end, this approach will like­ly cost United far more mon­ey than if staff had sim­ply offered pas­sen­gers addi­tion­al mon­ey to deplane voluntarily.

Munoz’s state­ment also reflects a ten­den­cy of those in posi­tions of pow­er to excuse law enforce­ment for using vio­lence to force com­pli­ance. Authority fig­ures con­sis­tent­ly argue that it’s the respon­si­bil­i­ty of civil­ians to act in a way that could not invite offi­cers to use force, and nev­er the respon­si­bil­i­ty of the offi­cers to con­sid­er ways to de-esca­late and avoid it.

The inci­dent also high­lights broad­er con­cerns about the cul­ture of U.S. law enforce­ment, which many have crit­i­cized for embrac­ing a role as “war­riors” rather than “guardians.” Multiple bystander videos in recent years have cap­tured offi­cers show­ing lit­tle hes­i­ta­tion to use force, even in seem­ing­ly sen­si­tive sit­u­a­tions. In many of these cas­es, a cop’s use of force leads to a pre­cip­i­tous esca­la­tion of the situation.

Trust in law enforce­ment has suf­fered at times as a result. A 2015 sur­vey showed con­fi­dence in police had fall­en to its low­est lev­el in 22 years, though a sim­i­lar poll tak­en the next year found that respect for law enforce­ment had rebounded.

Opinions on law enforcement’s use of force are con­sis­tent­ly divid­ed along racial lines, with white and black Americans show­ing dras­ti­cal­ly dif­fer­ing views of the issue. Although 75 per­cent of white respon­dents said police use the right amount of force, only 33 per­cent of black respon­dents agreed, accord­ing to a 2016 sur­vey.

Victims of vio­lence often suf­fer from trau­ma beyond their phys­i­cal wounds. Many report feel­ing psy­cho­log­i­cal symp­toms like anx­i­ety or post-trau­mat­ic stress, and those issues can be com­pound­ed when the aggres­sor is in law enforce­ment, Williams said.

“Part of the whole syn­drome of PTSD is that you feel like the world is not a safe place, so you’re con­stant­ly vig­i­lant, con­stant­ly on guard,” she said. “And what bet­ter way for them to learn that the world isn’t safe when the peo­ple who are sup­posed to pro­tect you are harm­ing you or bru­tal­iz­ing you and not tak­ing any steps to keep you safe.”

The debate over police tac­tics typ­i­cal­ly revolves around law enforce­ment activ­i­ty in com­mu­ni­ties ― often com­mu­ni­ties of col­or, which tend to expe­ri­ence polic­ing dif­fer­ent­ly. But the fact that we’re see­ing this hap­pen on an air­plane should open people’s eyes, Williams said.

“It reminds us all that the police can do what­ev­er they want to us, even if you’re a doc­tor on a plane,” she said. “They can harm you if you don’t obey.”

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