{"id":179807,"date":"2017-10-19T18:17:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T23:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/10\/19\/i-did-not-expect-this-4\/"},"modified":"2017-10-19T18:17:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T23:17:00","slug":"i-did-not-expect-this-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/10\/19\/i-did-not-expect-this-4\/","title":{"rendered":"I Did Not Expect This"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 330px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dASATLLvGRM\" width=\"320\"><\/iframe><br \/><i>Warning, graphic video<\/i><\/div>\n<div>The officers who brutalized David Dao on a United Airlines flight a few months ago <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2017\/10\/viral-video-of-man-being-dragged-from-united-flight-get-officers-fired\/\">have been fired<\/a>:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">According to the initial police report, Dao was said to have pushed away an officer&#8217;s arm, causing &#8220;the subject to fall, hit, and injure his mouth on the armrest on the other side of the aisle.&#8221; Another officer corroborated that account, but none of this is visible on the videos passengers posted online. <\/p>\n<p>Thomas Demetrio, Dao&#8217;s attorney, said video evidence is what doomed the officers. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Do not state something that is clearly contrary to video viewed by the world,&#8221; he said in a statement. &#8220;Our cell phones are the best deterrent to ensure mistreatment becomes a rarity.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The inspector general inquiry said that officers had &#8220;deliberately removed material facts from their reports.&#8221; Aviation officials fired the security official who had &#8220;improperly escalated the incident&#8221; as well as an official involved in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/local\/breaking\/ct-met-aviation-cops-fired-20171017-story.html\">removing facts from a report on the incident<\/a>.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You have the constitutional right to tape LEOs in action.&nbsp; Use it.<\/p>\n<p>As the counselor notes, &#8220;Cell phones are the best deterrent to ensure mistreatment becomes a rarity.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warning, graphic video The officers who brutalized David Dao on a United Airlines flight a few months ago have been fired: According to the initial police report, Dao was said to have pushed away an officer&#8217;s arm, causing &#8220;the subject to fall, hit, and injure his mouth on the armrest on the other side of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[413,526,471,401],"class_list":["post-179807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-civil-rights","tag-law-enforcement-misconduct","tag-transportation","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179807"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}