Aviation authorities late Monday released police reports about the Kentucky doctor who was violently removed from a United flight earlier this month. The officers involved painted a picture that differs from the viral videos of the incident taken by other passengers.
The videos of the April 9 incident, which were posted on social media and broadcast on news sites across the world, have sparked global outrage at United, which at first defended the incident but later apologized.
The police reports, released from Chicago’s Department of Aviation in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by The Los Angeles Times and other news outlets, say 69-year-old passenger David Dao was flailing his arms and being verbally abusive. The officers involved suggested that it was Dao’s fault that he struck his face on an armrest, which broke his nose, knocked out his two front teeth, and gave him a concussion before a flight from Chicago to Louisville.
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