How people direct their outrage at these kinds of stories is pretty fickle, too. Right now, because of a quite egregious case, people are more skeptical of poli

How people direct their outrage at these kinds of stories is pretty fickle, too. Right now, because of a quite egregious case, people are more skeptical of police removing people from planes than they used to be (which is probably good). But in a few months there will be some case of a passenger removed from a plane in circumstances that look bad for the passenger and/or trigger common pet peeves, and then we'll have a chorus of pro-police internet commentators saying "FINALLY someone did something about these assholes, I hope they start doing this regularly!!!"