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They tasered one of the stars of my school's basketball team this weekend, because he was drunk and pulled a cops' gun. I'd say that he's lucky they didn't shoot him.

Gotta keep those Discordians in check !

I understand that after he is hung, he will be drawn, and then quartered, and parts of him will be posted at each enterance to the university.

A fitting end to such a sorry spectacle.

I agree somewhat with Tallgeese partly, but he wasn't moving toward Kerry at the beginning. He was just asking (rather annoyingly) a question, and the police moved in on him.

And besides that, why in the hell did they taze him after that crapload of cops had him on the ground. There was no way in hell he was going to get out of there, but they tazed him anyway? WTF.

The whole situation was bullcrap, and the kid and the cops should be ashamed.

Tallgeese wrote:

He broke away from the police what, three times before they hit him with the juice?
You shouldn't expect to repeatedly, actively resist arrest and continue moving towards a U.S. Senator without the police doing something to drop your ass.
Which makes me think he was trying to get beat down or tased, to become a YouTube spectacle and example of the brutality of The Man.

Thats crap though. Suppose he had a serious point, suppose instead this kid was in a demonstration against segregation or some "legitimate" use of free speech. The cops try to remove him by force for asking a question. He felt they had no right because all he was doing was asking a question. He tries to simply break free from them touching him and restraining him and thats when the cops decide to arrest him. Again, the person feels this is a violation of his civil liberties, and protests the arrest. He gets wrestled to the ground. He keeps crying "I'll walk away peacefully, just leave me alone" They taser him.

And he wasnt moving towards the senator, he was moving away from the cops.

Last edited by StaticAge (2007-09-18 4:57 pm)

JakeTheTall wrote:

Don't do the crime if you can't do the time !

wow, it gets funnier and funnier each time!

Despite the  early 20's passion and lack of composure, I don't think he deserved to be yanked away by a ton of cops. Kerry was willing to answer those questions and Kerry asked the cops to leave the kid alone.

IMHO both parties acted in a fairly idiotic manner.

Just another example of pussy cops that can't handle one loud mouth kid.

The AP reported police are recommending he be charged with resisting arrest with violence which is a felony, as well as some misdemeanor like disturbing the peace or disrupting a public function or something.  While it's clear from those videos that he's resisting arrest, I don't think you could call it "violent," at least not by my definition (which would be him taking swings at the cops or something).  AFAIK he hasn't been officially charged with anything yet and the president of U of F has initiated an investigation into it.  It'll be interesting to see how far they prosecute this kid.

edit: my bad he has already been charged with Disrupting a public event.  The investigation the University initiated will also look at whether the police used undue force.

Last edited by Sputnickey (2007-09-19 1:03 pm)

I did. Reality is highly over-rated.

Sputnickey wrote:

Even if you believe they're in the wrong, resisting the police is never a good idea.  There are tons of videos of alleged "police brutality" on the internet (often involved kids skateboarding) and I'd say the vast majority of the situations could have been resolved peacefully if the person being arrested had simply cooperated.

I will never cease to be amazed by the sheer number of people who are quite content with, or purposely ignorant of, this paramilitary invasion of our country from within.