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United Airlines has more than once become the object of mass outrage in 2017. In March, the airline temporarily barred two women from boarding a flight because they were wearing leggings. Less than a month later, a viral video showed a man dragged from a United flight bleeding from the nose because the flight was overbooked. In the aftermath, an image satirizing the company's customer service policies became popular on social media. The image purports to show United's Special Seating & Apparel Division: This image, of course, does not actually show the Special Seating & Apparel Division of United Airlines. The man at the podium is actually Lake County Sheriff Peyton Grinnell, who delivered a warning to heroin dealers in Florida, flanked by masked police: The doctored image mocking United Airlines apparently used stills from the sheriff's video. The video itself has been the subject of controversy. The ACLU has expressed concern about police using SWAT teams inappropriately; however, some residents have appreciated Grinnell's acknowledgement of the devastating surge in heroin use in their county.
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