In spite of the expert analysis on here it appears that the police have made a determination that there was a violation of the law by Mr. Foster.
Technically in our system of law, LE doesn't make that determination. They make the determination that there's an appearance of a violation of law, and a judge and jury get final say as to whether there actually was one.
As an aside, we had a neighbor dispute recently where two grown men got in a yelling match.
Man A was much more irate than B.
Man A kept getting closer to B and screaming louder...
B pulled out his cell phone and started video, holding it at arm's length toward A.
A knocked it out of B's hand.
A is on probation for assault. The camera phone footage of the camera phone getting swatted was shown in court.
Phone Lives Matter. LOL
Bull? Stupid ?
I should not have expected anything better from you people. Your moms taught you really good !!!
You guys are either blinded or dont care about others. I am not saying this from watching the news etc. Personally few years back for some reason my whole family was separated during boarding process. My two older one were fine but the 3 year old was crying pretty badly. We could see him and tried to console him but he would not listen . I asked the FA to see if he can switch seats. He says NO. After about 5 minutes I ask again. Then this 20 something year old punk turns around with eye balls popping out tells me that if I ask one more time he will throw me out of the airplane. I could not believe that someone could do this to a paying customers. If I do this to my customer , I will be out of job before the day ends. How you guys could support this kind of behavior?
We would need a lot more information than you've provided to answer this question. Such as, were your tickets on a "discount" airline without assigned seating?
If so, welcome to the equivalent of the city bus.
Traveling with kids can suck. It can suck harder if you didn't fly an airline with assigned seating and didn't pay for it.
The other reason pilots will defend such things is that ultimately the crew MUST control the cabin. It's not optional. Telling you that your only remaining option is to disembark after multiple answers of "no" to the same question, is the correct answer.
Telling you he'd "throw you off" was probably not the best customer service ever, but the answer "no" was given how many times prior to this? Which part of "no" was difficult to understand?
We've had three year olds travel well in our family. Usually because mom and dad assure them that they're close by and the kid isn't watching dad have a mental breakdown and badgering flight crew over being ten feet away.
I have to wonder what triggered the kid's discontent, since I've seen kids handle separation from parents just fine with calm parents, many many times. Kids are also usually excited about the new experience they're having and often parents have talked up the destination (a vacation, family, whatever) so they're usually quite content to be headed somewhere new/neat.
Most kids mimic the behavior of mom and dad in unfamiliar public situations. If dad mans up and says to the kid that things are fine, and that you'll be at the neat place soon, most kids react quite well to that.
If this was an assigned seat airline, were you late? Missed a flight? Was the gate agent sticking you in whatever seats were left on a flight you weren't originally booked on? Were you at the gate soon enough to notify the agent that you had a three year old and it would be great if one parent could sit with the three year old?
All sorts of things you didn't mention. All things that were your responsibility to do, dad.
