United Airlines suspends pilot for calling for ‘public hanging’ of Hillary Clinton

Saturday, 19 Jul, 2016 0

United Airlines has suspended a pilot for calling for the public hanging of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

The airline said it was ‘appalled by the threatening comments’ of Michael Folk, who is also a Republican member of the West Virginia House of Delegates.

He posted on Twitter saying Clinton should be prosecuted for treason and ‘hung on the mall in Washington, DC.’

He has since deleted the Tweet and said the message should not have been taken literally.

He penned the message after the FBI decided not to charge Clinton over her private email server.

"This pilot has been removed from flying pending our investigation," United Continental said in a tweet.

"It could have been said a little bit better. I regret the tone, and the second part of that tweet. The biggest misconception is that for some reason, everybody thinks I made a death threat, which I did not. Clearly it was not that," Folk told the AP.

The Democratic Coalition Against Trump, which numbers more than 20,000 members, has called for a boycott of United Airlines until it takes decisive action against Folk.

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