UF student Tasered after questioning John Kerry

Right! Which is why they didn't do it for that - they did it for resisting being handcuffed. He was an asshole the entire time, but no one tasered him until well after he got physical.

 

Funny how you posted the original video but apparently haven't seen it yet.

 

That's nowhere near what happened that night.

 

Dan -- I sit corrected.

Tony -- you don't have to hate cops to think these particular cops weren't very good at their jobs, nor to think that campus police forces employ a lot of people who don't have much business being cops.

You were agitating for people to be reasonable earlier. Extend Okie the same courtesy.

 

Hey, this is great.

This morning I talked to Jesus, and now I'm talking to God.

 

No, but ignoring the requests of the police to "cease and desist" is. And resisting the cease and desist order most certainly is. Check your police blotter and you'll read at least once a week about some drunk getting arrested for disorderly conduct because the police telling someone to knock it off and this guy becomes a tough guy and decides to mouth off. I feel absolutely zero sympathy for this publicity-seeking ass.

 

Yeah, I feel no sympathy for Meyer either. Cop tells me to sit, I sit.

But I fault the cops also.

 

No, it doesn't tell the whole story. My point remains, that we should never assume police will follow the law when apprehending someone who they feel has pushed them.

They're human. And they can get pissed off and lose rational thought just like the rest of us.

 

You don't have to be sympathetic to the kid or his behavior to think the cops fucked up here.

 

Now that you understand that I'm God, I'm giving you the task of finding all 1,553 of my posts on this site and organizing them in Bible form. ;D

 

The cops fucked up in not opening the door with this kid's head like the Tangier's Casino guards did with the big redneck in the movie Casino.

 

I just rewatched the tape, and the cops grab him immediately after the mic is cut. I don't blame him for being a little freaked out by that, because he had done nothing to warrant being arrested at that point.
He resisted longer than he should have, but there was no reason for the cops to get involved when they did. He didn't do more than ask a few questions up to that point.
And the CNN story, http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/18/student.tasered/index.html, says the police report claims he tells Kerry the senator will answer his question "because I have been listening to your crap for two hours."
That didn't happen. He simply said he would ask his question after Kerry talked for two hours.
If that's slanted to make the guy look worse, could there be more in the report that is?