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.
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.