This remains a continual puzzle to me. (Behavior on DU.)

[Leith]

23. I'll Give It a Try

Basically, it seems you are asking how the passenger should have been removed - is that right? You want to leave aside the question of the justice in forcing a paying customer causing no trouble to leave?

If my assumptions are right, here is my suggestion:

raise the arm rests. I looked at a couple of the videos again and it's quick, but you can clearly see that all arm rests are down. It's hard enough to wiggle yourself into the window seat around the arm rests when you want to get there. It's nearly impossible to drag a person fighting and screaming out of there when they don't want to leave.

What the cops did was drag the passenger over and around the arm rests, even making his face hit one of them and causing his lip to bleed. I'd be willing to bet that his legs got bruised when they yanked on his body with no thought as to how the human body bends and doesn't bend.

The dirty deed could have been done by removing the physical obstacles first. It would then be a simple matter of pulling him across a couple of cushioned seats.

Does that answer your question?