A disruptive passenger was restrained with flexible handcuffs and duct-taped to a seat as his flight was diverted to make an emergency landing in Baltimore Thursday night, photos and video from other passengers showed.
Richard Olenick and Juan Mejia were more than halfway through the flight when a man two rows behind them in the first-class section started to become belligerent, Olenick said.
A flight attendant tried to control the situation but the man got increasingly agitated, started to hit the passenger next to him and then hit a woman who tried to intervene, Olenick said.
Why are they blurring his face? Fuck that. You need to let people know who these idiots are.
Edit: Okay. I’ve been properly chastised. I’m not entirely swayed, but you all have given me pause and things to think on.
was going to reply to @[email protected] but figure I will to you. Last protest we had a guy drive by. park. come back and he was trying to throw another guys sign over a fence. He put hands on the other guy so I tried to pull him away. Cops actually came pretty fast I think because they kinda monitor our protest. From what the guy was screaming me and another protester were basically debating on if he was mentally ill, drunk, or both. We came to the conclusion both as he smelled of alcohol but even then some of what he said sounded more crazy than drunk. Ultimately you had us and him and a bunch of police and their vehicles so drivers by were taking a lot of pictures and I imagine it went on social media more. So the guy basically upped the visibility of our protest as far as what he accomplished. That being said I think he was mentally ill but maga seems to have a lock on that demographic here.
Because he could be mentally ill and should not be shamed for it?
Why? So people who live thousands of miles away can see a headline, dox them, then harass their family based on assumptions for years?
You have no idea why this happened, or what the situation around it is. You have no reason to judge and punish this person.
That’s fair. But when you’re arrested on suspicion of committing a crime, your identity is made public. I guess I’m more wondering why this guy’s name and image are withheld in this instance.
Only in America
Which is where I am and where this happened and where the article is being published, sooo… I guess my question still stands?
We do the stupid thing in case X, so why aren’t we doing it in case Y?
Probably because the news service doesn’t want to potentially get sued. The same reason they often use ‘allegedly’ when talking about people accused of crimes.
Also, though they do it here in the states, it’s still wrong to release the names and images of people accused of crimes. People should not have their name and face plastered across the internet merely because they’ve been accused. Being accused of a crime is not the same as being convicted of a crime. Why should someone have their life potentially ruined because they are accused of something. Lots of people are wrongly accused and never convicted. We should at least wait until a conviction before publishing such information.
well we do it here in America, so you know it’s the right thing to do
…how’s that going for you these days?
On the list of things wrong here, I’m not sure “posting photo of what someone does in public” even ranks.
That’s part of the problem. You’ve come to accept so many small compromises on your rights that you have the situation that you have now.
Name and shame. Actions have consequence.