I'm surprised United have not come up with the "this flight was operated by Republic Airlines so nothing to do with us" line. That certainly is what happens when one of these US franchised carriers has an accident.
Let us stop writing about "overbooking". It didn't happen here. the correct number of passengers turned up and boarded. Then the carrier decided, for their own convenience, to send four of their personnel on the flight by removing four of the passengers.
Munoz's groupies in the
PR team write his various comments, without any retraction of his disgraceful victim-blaming comments they previously wrote over his name. In any other decent organisation he would have offered his resignation over those comments by now, "encouraged" by his board of directors.
The thugs who did the extraction seem to be from a grey area between police and security staff. It is stated above that they are not allowed to carry guns. In the USA this must really grate on them and lead to hiring low calibre personnel. In the UK the perpetrator would be in custody by now while criminal assault charges were considered, his colleagues would be down for aiding and abetting, and the gate staff who gave them the "go boys go" command would be looking at the wrong end of a pink slip.
I wonder how the background of the passenger hit the media so fast. Did United's
PR dig for dirt about him, then spread it among their contacts in the media.