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Exactly. 100% this. 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
by SamBam 10y ago
Exactly. 100% this.
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.
- cmurf 10y agoI 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.