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The story is insane and i hope he squeezes every dollar he can out of AA

by wombat-man 4y ago

nerdponx 4y ago
American Airlines is a scapegoat for the broken justice system.
- peddling-brink 4y ago
  Are you suggesting AA is an innocent party here? They messed up big time. Those accusations change lives. Nor is the American Justice system innocent, their handling of the situation was terrible, likely criminal.
  - tehwebguy 4y ago
    They are saying that the police should not have taken the action they took based solely on the unconfirmed identification provided by AA, which is correct.
  - astura 4y ago
    Police asked for a manifest. AA replied with a single passenger. Police should have realized right away this was an error and re-requested the manifest. Stills from surveillance footage (included in the actual complaint another poster linked to) show multiple people boarding the plane. The was this article is written is very bad journalism, AA (obviously) didn't know anything about the theft in a completely unrelated store, and didn't report it. The only thing they did was replied to a subpoena incorrectly. This article makes it sound like AA was doing their own investigation into a crime they knew nothing about.
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croes 4y ago
Why AA? They didn't put him in jail for 17 days under cruel conditions. Everything after the wrong identification was done by the state. Especially if the differences between the wanted perpetrator and the arrested person is obvious.
- notch656a 4y ago
  Because you haven't a prayer of punishing the state (although you may squeeze some money out of tax-payers who never agreed with the actions to begin with). Had some less egregious shit happen to me (border patrol lied and said a dog determined there were drugs up my ass). Got strip searched, taken to multiple hospitals across the state of Arizona against my will based on utterly fabricated 'probably cause' for attempted warrantless search of my body cavities. Cuffed and strutted and talked down to by doctors who called me a druggy purely based on entirely fabricated evidence, spending nearly a day in lobbies of hospitals while health care professionals ignored HIPAA and patient consent laws to do the bidding of border patrol. Looked up the court cases, a woman in identical situation was even raped by the doctors in every orifice on the same accusations and she didn't get jack. Step A when you've been wronged by the state is to find the most proximal private entity and put them through the ringer. In this case that's AA. The state will protect itself and even if you succeed you'll need to move afterwards. ------------- To the person who asked for link of the woman: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.azd.985537/gov.uscourts.azd.985537.1.0.pdf https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.azd.985...
  - croes 4y ago
    I'm shocked. That sounds like a corrupt third world country.
    - ncmncm 4y ago
      Welcome to the US. Supposedly everybody wants to come here.
    - dotancohen 4y ago
      No it doesn't. It might have sounded like a corrupt third world country before we had ready access to information other than what the local newspaper and encyclopedia could provide. But now that the individual has the tools to consider the bigger picture, this sounds exactly like the United States that I've been hearing about for well over a decade. Much of that I've become aware of right here on HN.

The story is insane and i hope he squeezes every dollar he can out of AA

nerdponx 4y ago

American Airlines is a scapegoat for the broken justice system.

peddling-brink 4y ago
Are you suggesting AA is an innocent party here? They messed up big time. Those accusations change lives. Nor is the American Justice system innocent, their handling of the situation was terrible, likely criminal.
- tehwebguy 4y ago
  They are saying that the police should not have taken the action they took based solely on the unconfirmed identification provided by AA, which is correct.
- astura 4y ago
  Police asked for a manifest. AA replied with a single passenger. Police should have realized right away this was an error and re-requested the manifest. Stills from surveillance footage (included in the actual complaint another poster linked to) show multiple people boarding the plane. The was this article is written is very bad journalism, AA (obviously) didn't know anything about the theft in a completely unrelated store, and didn't report it. The only thing they did was replied to a subpoena incorrectly. This article makes it sound like AA was doing their own investigation into a crime they knew nothing about.

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croes 4y ago

Why AA? They didn't put him in jail for 17 days under cruel conditions. Everything after the wrong identification was done by the state. Especially if the differences between the wanted perpetrator and the arrested person is obvious.

notch656a 4y ago
Because you haven't a prayer of punishing the state (although you may squeeze some money out of tax-payers who never agreed with the actions to begin with). Had some less egregious shit happen to me (border patrol lied and said a dog determined there were drugs up my ass). Got strip searched, taken to multiple hospitals across the state of Arizona against my will based on utterly fabricated 'probably cause' for attempted warrantless search of my body cavities. Cuffed and strutted and talked down to by doctors who called me a druggy purely based on entirely fabricated evidence, spending nearly a day in lobbies of hospitals while health care professionals ignored HIPAA and patient consent laws to do the bidding of border patrol. Looked up the court cases, a woman in identical situation was even raped by the doctors in every orifice on the same accusations and she didn't get jack. Step A when you've been wronged by the state is to find the most proximal private entity and put them through the ringer. In this case that's AA. The state will protect itself and even if you succeed you'll need to move afterwards. ------------- To the person who asked for link of the woman: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.azd.985537/gov.uscourts.azd.985537.1.0.pdf https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.azd.985...
- croes 4y ago
  I'm shocked. That sounds like a corrupt third world country.
  - ncmncm 4y ago
    Welcome to the US. Supposedly everybody wants to come here.
  - dotancohen 4y ago
    No it doesn't. It might have sounded like a corrupt third world country before we had ready access to information other than what the local newspaper and encyclopedia could provide. But now that the individual has the tools to consider the bigger picture, this sounds exactly like the United States that I've been hearing about for well over a decade. Much of that I've become aware of right here on HN.