UF student gets tasered...

[skadistic]

What I want to know is where was John Kerry in all this? He was a professional protester after all and has done far more disruptive and violent acts than yelling out at a debate in his carrier. Shouldn't he have been standing up for the kids 'right to protest' or does that only apply to the political left?

This kid was the political left.

 

[JollyRoger]

What I want to know is where was John Kerry in all this? He was a professional protester after all and has done far more disruptive and violent acts than yelling out at a debate in his carrier. Shouldn't he have been standing up for the kids 'right to protest' or does that only apply to the political left?

Kerry was the one that tazed him, bro.

 

[azzaman333]

It was the quick and safe way to get a resisting offender to comply with lawful commands

He was charged with resisting arrest. He was not arrested for any good reason. Too bad your facts aren't helping you.

 

[skadistic]

He was charged with resisting arrest. He was not arrested for any good reason. Too bad your facts aren't helping you.

Right because breaking laws isn't a good reason to get arrested. The facts help me fine. They don't help so you and others like you ignore them. I don't blame you. I'd ignore obvious facts to if they got in the way of a dishonest emotion argument that doesn't mesh up with what really happened.

 

[Elrohir]

I don't. Police shouldn't be involved in petty matters like this.

Even though they were asked to get involved by the people running this event? You're saying no one in the world had the authority to interfere with him?

I can't see anywhere on the video where he shoved them away. He was speaking on the mic, then the police took him away and then attacked him.

They tried to usher him away, and only started pulling him away when he shoved them back.

Lots of people do, but that doesn't mean we should taser them all.

Not for being a public disturbance, but if they won't let the police escort them out of the area, then why not? This wasn't a valid protest, he was breaking the rules, and then got belligerent when the police tried to enforce them. He wasn't tasered for being loud, he was tasered for physically resisting the police.

The video clearly shows that he wasn't fighting. The police officers arrested and tasered him without a good reason to do so. He was resisting the police because they were wrongfully arresting him.

He was indeed fighting the cops, at the mike, and down the isle, and on the ground, and so on. The only point when he doesn't fight the cops is after they tase him - which just goes to show that the taser did its job, and well.

Why on earth would you need chloroform just because a man is giving his point of view? Sure, he's having a rant, but why should people be arrested for having a rant? Is it because he's directing his rant to someone of importance, or what?

They weren't going to arrest him initially, they were just going to escort him out of the building. They arrested him when he resisted being escorted out of the building and made an even bigger scene.

I'm still waiting to hear a viable alternative that doesn't involve hurting him even more.

Can you show me where in US law does it state that people who jump the queue for asking questions should be tasered and arrested?

Strawman.

 

[Cu Chulainn]

just because a man is giving his point of view?

Quit this BS. It's a blatantly dishonest argument. You're smart enough to know it had nothing to do with what he said and everything to do with the disruptive uncivil way he said it.

 

[Ecofarm]

Someone needs to buy Ahmadjihadforyou a "Don't tase me, bro" t-shirt! He was threatening to go to the WTC site despite being denied access by NY authorities. Sen. McCain has proposed he should be "physically restrained if necessary". Someone should tase that bastard right now, just for talkn smack.

*NY officer greets Ahmadfor at the airport*
*zap*
Officer: "We heard you were considering resisting arrest. Is this true?"

(reference: tase 1st, ask questions later policy)

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=633_1190309981&p=1
(via Drudge)

 

[Bronx Warlord]

He was charged with resisting arrest. He was not arrested for any good reason. Too bad your facts aren't helping you.

Disorderly Conduct, Disturbance of the Peace and Assault on a Peace Officer. He could have been hit with all three eazily.