China social media users were in an uproar Tuesday over viral footage of a passenger dragged off an overbooked United Airlines flight, after some reports suggested he was of Chinese origin. The videos taken on the plane and posted to Twitter showed the man, reportedly identified by another passenger
China social media users were in an uproar Tuesday over viral footage of a passenger dragged off an overbooked United Airlines flight, after some reports suggested he was of Chinese origin.
The videos taken on the plane and posted to Twitter showed the man, reportedly identified by another passenger as ethnically Chinese, being forcibly pulled screaming from his seat by three security personnel.
“He said, more or less, ‘I’m being selected because I’m Chinese,’” fellow passenger Tyler Bridges was quoted as saying by The Washington Post. The man’s ethnicity and identity were however not officially confirmed.
Twitter — along with other Western websites such as Facebook and Google — is blocked on the mainland by the country’s ruling Communist Party, which fears the unregulated spread of information it deems politically sensitive.
