A passenger was forcibly removed from a United Airlines flight from Chicago to Kentucky on Sunday because the flight was overbooked and the airline needed to get four employees to Kentucky so they could work the next day. The video is horrifying and then this happened last night. The C-E-O of United Airlines’ parent company is supporting the way employees handled a passenger who did not want to go after being asked to leave an overbooked flight Sunday night in Chicago. In a letter to employees Monday evening, Oscar Munoz says he was upset the incident happened. But he says the man dragged off the plane had ignored requests to leave and became “disruptive and belligerent.

See the video here: Warning graphic.

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