(Advanced) Forcible Deboarding

Word form:

Try guessing the correct form of these base words... then check on the text bellow the video on the website:

United Airlines is facing    SPREAD    criticism after video surfaced of a doctor being    FORCE dragged off a plane by      SECURE  officers on Sunday, after United     BOOK     the flight and then demanded some passengers    EMBARK     . The flight was leaving from Chicago O’Hare International Airport and was headed to Louisville, Kentucky. When no one    VOLUNTEER    to get off the flight, the 69-year-old man was selected to be forced off the plane. He protested, saying he was a doctor who needed to see patients at a hospital in Kentucky the     FOLLOW morning. The Washington Post reports a fellow passenger says, "He said, more or less, ’I’m being selected because I’m Chinese.’" Multiple Chicago Department of Aviation security officers then began dragging him through the aisle as fellow passengers screamed. After being removed, the man, who was     BLOOD     by the first    REMOVE   , attempted to run back onto the plane. He was then forcibly removed a second time.

Now watch:

Forcible deboarding

Task: 

Fill the gaps and then check on the transcript (on the website under the video)

United Airlines – “Forcible deboarding”

NORM STAMPER: Well, we’re looking at airline security people. One can ________________ what kind of temperament, what kind of training, what kind of policies guide their work. I think, ________________, this is a ___________________ for a major corporation. But it also ______________ of how we deal with people under difficult circumstances, when there is tension, when there is conflict. And I’ll go back to the Seattle consent decree. The police officers themselves are saying, "I’ve never had better training," referring to de-escalation training, crisis intervention training, "in my entire career," helping them _______________ dealing with their own families, their children, their spouse, that sort of thing. So here we have some people who are probably not well trained in what they have been asked to do. And they’re doing it very, very badly.

AMY GOODMAN: I can’t remember the word they used, the airline, something like "___________ deboarding." He had a paid ticket. Is the idea that all United Airlines customers will now—I mean, I was just in a plane yesterday. When they say, "Would anyone volunteer?" everyone’s going to raise their hand, because they don’t want to be bloodied and perhaps __________ unconscious?

SHERRILYN IFILL: You know, Amy, this is kind of the _____________ of two issues. At the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, we’ve been working on the issue of removals of passengers—not violent removals of passengers, but removals of passengers because other passengers think that they look suspicious or for some other reason. We’ve been looking at just the issue of _____________ and the issue of removals. Now we’re seeing we go to this kind of very violent removal. And what worries me about this is that even if we want to talk about the training of those police officers, the response of United Airlines is so bizarre, in my view, that it suggests that there is a wider and deeper _________________.

And I worry, as, you know, Americans increasingly are _______________ seeing things like people violently dragged by police officers next to them as they have out cellphone videos—this is almost like the police killings—we’re being—we’re being almost kind of __________ to this violence that we’re seeing, you know, every place we go. This is in an airplane. And people are witnessing this. This is becoming part of American life. And that’s why I say if we don’t really get serious and turn against this, we will find that this becomes _____________around us. For a while, people were shocked by the cellphone videos of police killings and people—the police shooting people in the back. Now we’re seeing this kind of thing. This is why we have to ______________ this attempt to kind of return us to this kind of ______________policing in this country.