US: Two Officers Fired Following Probe Of United Passenger Dragging.
Two airport police officers fired in connection with the controversial removal of a passenger from a United Airlines plane earlier this year.
Video went viral online of a bloodied David Dao being dragged off the full flight by airport officers to make room for airline crew needing to be repositioned for future flights.
The April incident on a flight from the midwestern US city to Louisville, Kentucky caused an international uproar.
Joseph Ferguson (Chicago) Inspector general, who heads a city watchdog office, had been pursuing an internal probe of the officers’ actions, and revealed Tuesday that two of the four had been fired and the other two suspended.
Ferguson did not detail when the disciplinary actions were taken nor reveal the officers’ identities.
“Chicago Department of Aviation (CDA) employees mishandled a non-threatening situation that resulted in the physically violent forcible removal of a passenger,” the inspector general’s public report stated.
The fired employees were the officer who initially pulled Dao from his seat and the supervisor who engaged in “the deliberate removal of facts from an employee report,” the inspector general said.
Two other officers, one who “made misleading statements in two reports” and another who “made material omissions in a report,” were handed five-day suspensions, why one of the suspended officers chose to resign instead.
Two airport police officers fired in connection with the controversial removal of a passenger from a United Airlines plane earlier this year.
Video went viral online of a bloodied David Dao being dragged off the full flight by airport officers to make room for airline crew needing to be repositioned for future flights.
The April incident on a flight from the midwestern US city to Louisville, Kentucky caused an international uproar.
Joseph Ferguson (Chicago) Inspector general, who heads a city watchdog office, had been pursuing an internal probe of the officers’ actions, and revealed Tuesday that two of the four had been fired and the other two suspended.
Ferguson did not detail when the disciplinary actions were taken nor reveal the officers’ identities.
“Chicago Department of Aviation (CDA) employees mishandled a non-threatening situation that resulted in the physically violent forcible removal of a passenger,” the inspector general’s public report stated.
The fired employees were the officer who initially pulled Dao from his seat and the supervisor who engaged in “the deliberate removal of facts from an employee report,” the inspector general said.
Two other officers, one who “made misleading statements in two reports” and another who “made material omissions in a report,” were handed five-day suspensions, why one of the suspended officers chose to resign instead.
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