Police taser student at John Kerry Q&A

jeffbr wrote:

He didn't want to hear Kerry's response. Kerry tried twice to answer but the bitch kept yelling and whining.

He totally brought it on himself. It was completely staged. Some of you are so blind in your hatred of 'The Man' that you can't see when you're being taken for a ride.

So he should have been tasered? Give me a break!

jeffbr wrote:

No, he shouldn't have been. He should have acted his age. At any point in the process prior to the tasing he could have stopped it. He got exactly what he wanted - 15 minutes of fame and hits on his website.

that is not the issue. the issue is the cops abusing their authority, which in this case they clearly did. just another example of us turning into a police state and everyone is ok with it.

what was the kid gonna do to them, swing the book at them? give me a break.

you may approve of cops acting like this, but i think its totally over the line. they did not even read him his rights before tasing him.

Kerry could have stopped it.

flutteron wrote:

Kerry could have stopped it.

i think that's a good point too. Kerry was way too tepid.

gimmesometruth27 wrote:

that is not the issue. the issue is the cops abusing their authority, which in this case they clearly did. just another example of us turning into a police state and everyone is ok with it.

what was the kid gonna do to them, swing the book at them? give me a break.

you may approve of cops acting like this, but i think its totally over the line. they did not even read him his rights before tasing him.

I think you're bordering on the same hysteria that the dipshit in the video demonstrated.

I have a general distrust for government, authority, cops, etc... I am anti-tax, anti-social services, anti-police-state. But I am also anti-stupidity. That fucking guy could have stopped the escalation any time he chose.

Again, show me a case where someone is not creating a situation and gets tasered, and I'll be up in arms. I'll join you in moral outrage.

jeffbr wrote:

He wasn't just talking, he was disrupting a public event. At some point that becomes disturbing the peace. The kid was not interested in Kerry's response (although I would have been). He started talking, and wouldn't shut up. Even after Kerry said he'd answer the questions he'd start yelling and creating a disturbance.

If any of you think he acted with decorum and respect, let me know. I'd like to stay away from you at public meetings.

someone can get tasered for being disrespectful? wow!

Cheguevara6 wrote:

i took a college course with one of the most reknowed and important socialist thinkers of our time- John Bellamy Foster.

His son was friends with a high school kid who was killed by police.

My professor said this: If my house was broken into, i would let the burgular kill me before I called the police"

I agree.

Police are monsters.

Its the only profession where you can kill people, and not be punished.

"Killing and brutalizing citizens daily" should be their motto

A bunch of strong big men! They murder a black man over a WALLET people!

Did the people who beat rodney king really need to beat him?

Police are pigs.

I am glad i gave florida police a call. They deserve to be called what they really are. They arent heroes. they are killers.

Wow they are so cool, they tasered an unarmed man! Wow daddy I want to be a police officer!

but that's overgeneralizing dude... this is a little too much man. it ain't like some huge conspiracy. now don't get me wrong... i don't support cops who do this. but there are good decent cops out there who are trying to "protect and serve" the community.

heck... wanna say something nice about a cop? ok. i was driving 84 mph on a construction zone and a 65 speed limit with no proof of insurance in katie texas. a cop stopped me and passed me off with a warning... all he asked me is why i was speeding. i said i had a meeting with a girl... a date, mind you. he asked for proof of insurance.... i didn't have it but i told him it was under my sisters. the dude calmly just passed me off with a warning. and said, "just drive safe, ok?"

you gotta understand that cops are people too.... trying to do their jobs the best they can. yeah, sometimes they mess up... just like any other human individual would. some cops are crooks.... some are not. you can't overgeneralize the situation.

see.... when you look at it at a perspective without holding any sides you begin to realize that people tend to go from one extreme to the other. cops aren't ALWAYS going to be justified by their actions.... but at the same time cops aren't ALWAYS going to be "pigs" or "killers".

no... i don't agree that the cops should've tased the dude.... but albeit... i don't think they had any other clue of how to deal with the situation.

i still get pissed at cops for many reasons. here in austin... in the last 4 years or so they have killed about 9 unarmed black and hispanic males... no older than 25 and all were done by white cops. yeah, it's a big deal here too.

are you all joking? I've been to a lot of conferences and if all the people that went over the maximum time would have been taken away by the police (and I'm neither talking about being tasered), conferences would be empty.
If someone gous out of time they take him away the mic, eventually, but being arrested is pure fascism and repression.

Open wrote:

It could have been a simple procedure of letting him listen to Kerry's response.

He was being obnoxious and acting like a highschooler (before they took him away too). Did you hear the entire audience clap as he was being taken away? He was probably acting immature the whole time and people and the cops were fed up. It said he had a history of taping his practical jokes, did nobody read that part that's defending this tool? Just listen to the way he asked his questions, he didn't give a shit about the answer, just wanted attention. Look at his website. He was acting this way for attention and now he's getting it.

danny72688 wrote:

He was being obnoxious and acting like a highschooler (before they took him away too). Did you hear the entire audience clap as he was being taken away? He was probably acting immature the whole time and people and the cops were fed up. It said he had a history of taping his practical jokes, did nobody read that part that's defending this tool? Just listen to the way he asked his questions, he didn't give a shit about the answer, just wanted attention. Look at his website. He was acting this way for attention and now he's getting it.

is it enough to arrest him? Prisons would be super full, if people acting immature could be arrested for that