2 officers fired, 2 others suspended after forcibly removing United Airlines passenger from packed flight in Chicago
10/18/2017 7:13 am PDT
via KTLA:
CHICAGO -- (KTLA) -- Chicago aviation officials fired two officers and suspended two others involved in the forcible removal of a United Airlines passenger from a packed flight.
Cellphone footage showed security officers on April 9 dragging Dr. David Dao by his arms and legs down the aisle and off the Louisville, Kentucky-bound flight before it took off at Chicago O'Hare International Airport.
Dao was left bloodied and bruised in the incident that created a firestorm for the airline.
Three Chicago Department of Aviation security officers and a sergeant "mishandled a nonthreatening situation that resulted in a physically violent forcible removal of a passenger" aboard the flight, a City of Chicago Office of Inspector General investigation found, officials said Tuesday.
