Student Tasered for Question

This just sickens me. I saw the youtube video and and ended up reading every page i could find on it. Something needs to be done about that. He was abused as a 21 year-old kid by the police. I mean, the Police are supposed to serve and protects, and they definitly did the opposite here. It sadens me that more people arent outraged by this. It is flat out police brutality.

 

this possibly the worst video of police tring to suppress our youth and and using their power unethecally... the guy did abosolutly nothing that he get arrested for. I think in the begginning they were just tring to escort him out of the room so he would stop making a scene, but still our first amendment right is free speech.

 

There is a scum bag on college humor who makes light of the situation.

As if the erosion of our rights at the hands of corrupt cops, sell out politicians and ultra greedy corporations and elitists is something to joke about.

It was an obvious attack against the kid as if he was an ass.

Go see for yourself on college humor. An article about "spidering" instead of tasers. Hahaha. Register and leave the kid a message telling him how deranged he is.

 

the guy was at the podium for about 40 seconds when someone tried to usher him out. he continued to ask the questions that i'd like to know answers to also. shame on john kerry for standing there and witnessing all that and not speaking out. shame on all the people who sat there and watched that man's rights being violated. if we don't stand up together we'll each go down one by one.

 

I don't think that John Kerry stands for anything but himself.

 

i didn't hear it on youtube, nor on mainstream media, but in audio, as i only get it on the radio, on amy goodman's democracy now. i think the guy WAS hogging the mike, but i don't think he deserved being tazerd. and i also think the kerry owes him answers and the place and its security owe him at least an appology.

the guy WAS wrapped up in his own emotions and maybe didn't realize or see it comming. i could easily see myself being and doing the same thing he did. the rent a cops (or were they real cops? i didn't get that, not that i'm too sure how much that would matter) probably were too. but they had/have a responsibility not to be, as a function of their job.

if you get a chance to listen to the full transcript, and how long he'd been there before the tazering, you'd understand that he was being perhaps a little more annoying then he needed to be. so it isn't all a one sided deal. it's just that what was done to him WAS excessive and could have been handled a LOT better, and without great difficulty or risk to do so.

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I couldn't find it. All I found was a Ghostbusters video making fun of this situation. Link?

On another fourm I hang out at, someone is saying they were campus security (vehemently) - and not real cops. And, that he WASN'T being arrested, but would have merely been taken to the Deans office, his parents called and disiplinary action would have been taken. But, that's the only place I've seen them refered to as campus security. Anyone know for sure?

 

The cops are from the University of Florida Police Department. Their website has "a message from the cheif" on the incident. Check it out here http://www.police.ufl.edu/. I think these cops are the real deal and not just campus security or rent-a-cops.
My questions are were they trying just escorting him away just to shut him up before things got out of hand? And if they were just escorting him away, are cops allowed to do that? And if they weren't just trying to stop his babbeling and they were trying to arrest him, what was there reason?

 

So, I don't get it. Are they police, or campus security? Looks like Police to me. At the end of one of the videos, the student was saying "they're handing me over to the government." He repeated it a few times. So was he being handed over from "campus security" (police) to the real police or what?


I didn't go to college, so I don't have a clue if they call it "campus security" or University Police of blah blah blah, or when they might have changed from "campus security" to University Police. Anyway, in the other forum a poster is adament that it was only security and he was not being arrested because they don't have the authority to do that. But it's clear he did end up in jail, so he was arrested.

Disclaimer: I've been sick for 9 days with tonsilitis and now a flu bug. So if I don't make sense, pls excuse.

 

I think some schools have campus security and other, larger schools have there own police. THe kid probably didn't know what the hell was going on so if he was yelling "they're handing me over to the government" then he may have just been trying to make it seem even worse.

I'm done here because I gotta do an essay for school, but here's my last few cents:
If he didn't resist then he probably wouldn't have been arrested. Unless he is known to be a disturbance in classes and in public, the cops shouldn't have taken him away in the first place. It kinda seems like everyone is at fault here.
That's my last few cents. (I say "few" becuase it's worth more that two)

 

We are living in what can be considered a police state. If you resist an arrest at all, they will just add a charge for resisting arrest. And if you didn't do anything wrong in the first place, the police will lie, the judge will believe him over "scumbags" like ourselves, and you will be shut up for a while behind 4 feet of concrete.

"we need another prison"

 

Yes we do have the right to resist unlawful arrest, and I saw the video, why couldn't four people apprehend one unarmed individual without resorting to armed force? Not trained, not physically able, then why are they security guards or police?

 

Haha. Get your nose out of 1984.

 

When our government can surveil our private conversations without cause, what would you call it?

 

If you think our government has any interest in our private conversations you must be pretty stupid.

 

And I think your other name must be Pepik. Distraction only works for a while, people wake up and ask for answers eventually. You only have quick comebacks and marketing talk that is tired and worn out.

 

Haha, I'm not Pepik. I've had 3 or 4 other names on here... don't remember the passwords


If you want quick comebacks join the Army. Oh wait, you're too old. Haha sucks to be you

 

Someday you'll be too old too, if you live that long.

 

my brother says he shouldve just left peacefully when asked to.
but...i say, WHY?! i wouldve done the exact same thing.
he did nothing wrong. but, hey-thats politics for ya. we get tasered for speaking our minds.

 

When you attend a public hearing there are rules that you must follow if you want to speak. If you break the rules, you are likely to be removed. But they shouldn't have used tasers.