I believe that this is the real story!
The story as I understand it is that United Airlines had a flight from Chicago to Louisville that was full/overbooked. It was a Sunday evening flight, so many people were probably returning home to start work the next morning. They let everyone board until the plane was full. Then, AFTER everyone was boarded, they asked for 4 volunteers to be removed from the flight. They needed 4 seats so that United Airlines employees could take them, as those employees needed to work a flight out of Louisville the next morning.
No one volunteered, even after being offered compensation. So they started "randomly" picking people to kick off the flight so the UA employees could have seats. The first three begrudgingly but willingly (according to reports) exited the plane. The fourth, a doctor who claimed to have to see patients at the hospital the next AM, refused.
Chaos ensued. They called the police and had police/UA security physically drag him off the plane, splitting his face open in the process. It appears that he didn't fight back, he just refused to cooperate.
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