>>> The videotaped assault of Dr. David Dao by airport police at the behest of United triggered a media firestorm. Lots of media outlets, from the Los Angeles Times to Judicial Watch to Heavy, filed an Illinois Freedom of Information Act request for documents about the incident. On April 24, 2017, the Chicago Department of Aviation released four surveillance videos, two audio recordings of police channels, and a bunch of paper documents relating to the easily avoidable incident.

Of all the media outlets that got these documents, only Judicial Watch was good enough to post the link and password (April92017c0c) to the Dropbox that Chicago set up, thus giving us access to everything, including four surveillance videos of two hours each, hour-long audio of two police channels, the incident reports, and personnel files for the four airport cops who got suspended. For convenience, and because Chicago could pull down the Dropbox at any time, I've posted the audio and video to the Internet Archive for safekeeping and have embedded them here. I've also posted the PDFs below.