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What part of ‘please leave’ did the kid not understand when the cops first confronted him?

He deserved what he got.

Stand up or you’ll get tazed again

You can take that to the bank.

Heh, his complaining about the Patriot Act is the most uniquely pathetic thing I have heard anyone say in a long long time.

Perhaps the old ways are best…

A lot less hooting and hollering with a properly applied Billy club or blackjack.

The tape as is should be sufficient grounds for a resisting arrest charge at the very least, and should serve as a warning; contempt of cop is painful.

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Latin: “Furthermore, Parthia (Persia aka modern day Iran) should be destroyed.”

I wish I had a tazer.

What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.

I like the fact that by calling him “Little turd” you are really making it clear where you stand on the subject.

On the other hand, as you reported yourself, he was already up and walking towards the door to leave, and that is what the police wanted too, right? So what is there to cooperate with? He is already leaving, why grab him and “escort” him out when he is doing what he was asked to do? Even if “escorting” is part of the requirements, when the guy is on the move, you can just give way and make sure that he actually is leaving without touching him.

I was there. He was not asked repeatedly and refused. He was approached once by the community officer who was checking IDs and told to leave. He started looking for his Bruin card and couldn’t find it. The officer came back and asked him again, and the kid told him that he has forgotten his ID, but he is in the middle of something and he is going to leave in a second. While the community officer got impatient and went out of the room (to get the cops, apparently), the kid started packing and moving towards the door. Then the cops arrived and grabed him. He said “get off me”, but they forced him down and hand-cuffed him (I was behind the crowd then and I did not see this part). Then they told him to get up, but he said “get off me” and then the rest you can also see in the video.

The “refused several times” bit is a UCPD fabrication to justify the community officer’s impatience and calling on the cops. We were all there and he was just a sleepy kid using the CLICC lab and trying to finish up quick so he could leave. No one goes to fucking Powell at 11 o’clock to provoke anyone. It’s on top of the damn hill and quite a way from the dorms and there are better places in the Westwood village to go and raise protests.

I thought you guys are for small government?

"Stand up or you’ll get tazed again”? Sounds like a mafia thug talking, not a police officer.

Whatever happened to dragging people out of buildings?

Ever try to walk after you have gotten tazed? NO?! Do you know how hard it is to even move after those volts flow through the body? Some people can jump right back up, while others are physically incapacitated for a few. Getting tazed gets one light-headed and dizzy.

That being said, this had nothing to do with the Patriot Act. That was just moronic for the kid to say.

And The Whistler? I wish I had a tazer as well. It would have come in handy two weeks ago when the Detroit mafia or police or whatever they want to call themselves (they sure as hell don’t identify themselves) were acting like thugs and abusing their power.

He is already leaving, why grab him and “escort” him out when he is doing what he was asked to do?

How about a person NOT get aggressive when they escort him out.  The kids got no one to blame but himself.

Speaking of stupid were you the guy asking the cop for his badge number while he was in a confrontation with the guy.  That’s stupid, if you’ve got a complaint wait until the situation is resolved.

What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.

I don’t understand how you could constue this video against anybody since the video itself is pretty much worthless most of it.  You can HEAR what’s going on, but you can’t really see anything and without being able to see what’s going on you don’t get all the information.

I’ve never heard “stand up or you’re gonna get tazed”, and it does sound a bit odd.  But that alone I dont’ think constitutes police brutality.  Maybe improper tazer training.  Tazers should only be used as if you were using your sidearm IMHO.

I think Rob hates me… I mean, just look at the pic he took of me!

I thought you guys are for small government?

We are, but allowing cops the power to protect themselves and enforce order is one of the few justified areas of government power.

But you don’t get to use the “small government” argument until you quit trying to get me to pay for your health care.

No one goes to fucking Powell at 11 o’clock to provoke anyone.

And cops don’t typically taser someone in a room full of college students who hate cops without good reason.

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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Tazers should only be used as if you were using your sidearm IMHO.

I think you’re wrong there.  I think the Tazer is a compliment to the nightstick (PR-24).

Only when confronted with potential lethal force should a police officer resort to his sidearm.  In that case the tazer should be left in it’s holster.

What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.

My dad, a former officer, told me that typical police procedure is to always go “one notch above” what the person you’re confronting is doing.

If he/she refuses verbal commands then you can put your hands on them.

If he she resists physically you can use a nightstick of comparable non-lethal weapon (mace, taser, etc.) to subdue him/her.

If he/she pulls a knife or other potentially deadly weapon you pull your gun.

At that point things get a little more complicated.  If you’ve got the person cornered and all they have is a knife you keep them cornered with your gun until they either give up or put someone’s life at risk (like charging with the knife or whatever).

If the person pulls a gun you shoot them immediately.

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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What a sickening little episode. Calling a young guy like that “a little turd” is even worse. Laughing at someone shrieking in agony - well, that’s beneath contempt, I’m afraid. And who said all those students hate cops? They sounded like a bunch of scared kids to me. The whole thing disgusts me. What was all this “stand up” stuff? What difference does it make? if you want to neutralise a threat, then the ground is a good place for the guy to be, surely? Barbarism. Ken, I hope you don’t have people laughing at your pain and suffering. Compassion? Try it, you might like it.

Calling a young guy like that “a little turd” is even worse.

Sounds like a Kindergartener problem to me.

The fact is from the audio he was acting like a little turd.

What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.

He deserves every volts that was coming to him!  If you think that was bad, go to Saudi Arabia, the cops over there are brutal.

The kids rights were clearly violated. All the right wingers here just like to see people getting hurt. They are all sitting around, replaying the vid, watching the kid jellyfish, and spooging on their keyboards… while a crucifix looks on over their shoulder.

Yun Chu said, “You must strictly not express in words what is very significant. Both dragon and snake are killed in one blow.”

Well, it’s a disgusting way to talk about someone, regardless. And you can’t even see the incident. Surely the cops were worse? It’s unacceptable to be a little brusque with a cop (if he was, that is,) but it’s fine to repeatedly zap a young student who sounded pretty naive and green? I’m glad I don’t live in the US, if everybody thinks that’s okay, and even finds it funny. Very sad.

We do know the kid was very aggressive at least verbally BEFORE he got tazzed.  It’s not on the video but if he was swinging his arms “resisting arrest” then I think the cops were likely justified in what they did.

Whining about the police calling a little turd “a little turd” is pretty juvenile.

What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.

The only little turds here are the contents of those policemen’s skulls.

Yun Chu said, “You must strictly not express in words what is very significant. Both dragon and snake are killed in one blow.”

No, I was referring to what another blogger said, and now you too display the same lack of basic courtesy. I just find it to be in very poor taste to say that about someone you’ve just watched suffering that much pain and humiliation. I don’t believe he deserved it, but even if he was being cheeky he ought, according to common decency, to be spoken of a little more kindly. I don’t think that’s juvenile.

Hey, you keep nipping in front of me, Calvin! I’m of course replying to the posts one back.

Calm down, the problem is that you actually have no empathy for the job the police have to do.

They get called in knowing that a person has been asked to leave the library.  Their job is to eject that person.

This person acting aggressive and dawdling on his way out.  They tell him to hurry on and he deliberately provokes them by dawdling more. 

They grab his arm to escort him out and defuse the situation.  He become verbally aggressive and swings his arms (conjecture but almost certainly true).  At this point he is resisting arrest and does not respond to the police officer’s commands.

Furthermore the crowd is hostile and starts harassing the police.  They want to diffuse the situation but the loonball that created the problem does not cooperate.

The whole problem would never have happened if the loonball hadn’t acted up in the first place.

He is a little turd and deserved what he got. 

If it would have happened to me, I would have told them I forgot my ID and asked to save my work.  Then I would have left.

What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.

I appreciate that the police have a hard job. But I don’t think it does us justice to laugh at somebody on the ground being zapped repeatedly in front of, well, millions, probably. It’s not funny, it’s pure cruelty. I don’t know if he was resisting in any meaningful way, but I don’t really care. Nobody really deserves that just for being a petulant kid. What kind of country are you running where some dozy student gets zapped in a university library?! For the crime of possible “dawdling” and maybe “swinging his arms”. Jeez, why not just shoot him in the head? He’s clearly a massive menace to society…

I don’t think the crowd is hostile - I think some are shouting at the student to do as the cops are telling him. Surely two armed cops aren’t scared of a few spotty kids? Even I wouldn’t be, and I’m no karate master, I assure you. i’ve defused loads of situations like that - they basically just did everything wrong, and in a particularly unpleasant, pain-inflicting way.

For the crime of possible “dawdling” and maybe “swinging his arms”.

No he was dawdling so the Police put their hands on him. Then he started to resist them and the cops responded in my opinion properly.

Surely two armed cops aren’t scared of a few spotty kids?

This shows just how ignorant you are.  The last thing they need is someone to jump on their back while they are manhandling the little turd out of the library.  The last thing they need is someone to be grabbing at their sidearm while they’re wrestling this turd.

Jeez, why not just shoot him in the head?

Clearly you’ve lost all grip on reality here.

What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.

Never been anywhere without an ID, huh?  Don’t remember how much work it was to gather up a bunch of research material for a paper?  Or even just to get all the things laid out one needs to do homework?  Sounds like he forgot his ID, genuinely tried to find it, then reluctantly AGREED to leave by packing up and moving toward the door.  Someone freaked out and it is the police’s duty to be the most professional and calm and rational in any situation and they simply blew it.  Anything he did in fear or panic after that point is irelevant to the case.

If I am somewhere without my ID I realize I’m in the wrong and leave as soon as possible.

No issue and no morons second guessing the cops.

What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.

The “Jeez, why not shoot him in the head comment” was an illustration of how much you’re going overboard with a situation which posed no real danger. You are pronouncing the guy guilty without any proof - and I notice you keep using the term which I find so unpleasant, so thank you for showing once again your courtesy and decency.

I think shocked provides the most plausible explanation. It sounds pretty authoritarian to me. In a library, too. Dearie me.

If I am somewhere without my ID I realize I’m in the wrong and leave as soon as possible.

If i pay expensive tuition for acces to computers i would use them.

Yun Chu said, “You must strictly not express in words what is very significant. Both dragon and snake are killed in one blow.”

If i pay expensive tuition for acces to computers i would use them.

And you’d also be the first to complain if some non-student nut got into the library and raped a girl back in the stacks or assaulted someone because security was too lax.

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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and I notice you keep using the term which I find so unpleasant,

You mean “little turd” offends you?

You must have had a hard time in school.  LOL.

What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.

But no-one’s saying the police were wrong to monitor the guy to make sure he left! But to cattle prod him for being a bit slow or petulant. You can’t put someone in massive pain on the slim chance he might be a criminal. Arrest him if you have to. Full stop.

And no, I did not have a hard time at school. Again, you give the impression of lacking imagination and compassion by apparently thinking one has to be personally bullied in order to be appalled by it. What you’re saying is unkind.

And you’d also be the first to complain if some non-student nut got into the library and raped a girl back in the stacks or assaulted someone because security was too lax.

I thought he was using a computer and not raping anyone.
Hey, when these cops get in trouble you guys will have been wrong. I understand some people might have family in the police force, but that doesnt obligate you to stick up for shitty cops.

Yun Chu said, “You must strictly not express in words what is very significant. Both dragon and snake are killed in one blow.”

Again you totally mistaken how the little turd got to the point of being tazzed.

The police put their hands on him to guide him out of the building.  That’s appropriate when he’s not cooperating fully. 

At that point the little turd got very aggressive.

What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.

Calm Down, Sparkie, and all the rest who don’t have a clue what you’re talking about,

A tazer is a valuable tool of police work. All of you lefties out there shriek about the use of the tazer, so let me ask you this.....

Was it better in the day when an officer had to physically fight someone to get compliance? Or when we had to use a club (nightstick, PR-24, ASP, whatever - the function is the same) to get compliance? Why is it better to physically fight someone - risking injury to yourself and the suspect - than to Taze him? The tazer does no harm. It just locks up the muscles making resistance impossible. It hurts like hell - I know, I had to get shot with one to be certified with it.

Tazers can be life savers as well. Here are two great examples that I saw myself:

A woman stood in the doorway of her residence with a cocked .38 to her head. She said she was going to kill any officer who approached her, and that she was going to kill herself because her husband had been unfaithful. One of our officers talked to her while another got withing twenty feet with a Tazer (about max range). The officer talking to her then said “Is that your husband behind you?” She turned to look, taking the .38 from her head for a split second. The Tazer hit her, dropping her to the griound. Officers rushed in, got the gun, and restrained her. Nobody was hurt.

A guy had a molotov cocktail in his hand and a large hunting knife in the other. He had just burned one car. It was his intention to commit “suicide by police.” He kept charging officers yelling, “Shhot me! Shoot me,” and slashing with the knife. A few short years ago we would have had to shoot that guy. A tazer put him down. Nobody was hurt.

Just last week a very large guy hit one of my officers in the mouth when the officer tried to talk to him on a suspicious persons call. A tazer put him down and we were able to handcuff and shackle him without he or my opfficers getting hurt.

A Tazer is a compliance device. It hurts. BVut it does no harm except in the rare cases where the suspect is coked out or has a heart condition to begin with.

For all of you who mourn for the old days when cops just “busted heads” and hauled peole off - well we got sued a lot in those days for just that. And a lot more cops got hurt. So did suspects. Been there. Done that. Got the t-shirt AND the hospital records to prove it.

I for one like the tool. I saves a lot of grief. Message to that idiot kid and his ilk...don’t want to get tazered? Comply. When they tell you to stop resisting....STOP. Simple.

By the way...the tazer is lited well below deadly force on the force continuum. Right after about the third voice command to cooperate. We don’t want to get hurt and we don’t want to hurt you so....cooperate.

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He was leaving when they put their hands on him. It was unnessary then. These cops obviously have tiny little penises and they are trying to compensate for it. If you ask my opinion, we should only recruit cops with big penises so their ‘complejos’ don’t interfere.

Yun Chu said, “You must strictly not express in words what is very significant. Both dragon and snake are killed in one blow.”

I understand some people might have family in the police force, but that doesnt obligate you to stick up for shitty cops.

Get this, Sparkie...the Supreme Court of the United States authorizes offciers to use “whatever force is necessary” to make an arrest. Than includes putting their hands on you when you get stupid. The kid got stupid. Pulling away from an officer who is putting his hands on you in the line of duty is resisting. Period. And then...you lose. Simple. Get over it.

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These cops obviously have tiny little penises and they are trying to compensate for it. If you ask my opinion, we should only recruit cops with big penises so their ‘complejos’ don’t interfere.

Sparkie -

Big penises = more testosterone. It would just further intimidate you left wing bed, limp wristed girly man, bed wetting types and give you something else to cry about.

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In this trial by youtube you still insult this person in an unpleasant manner, without having all the facts. It does, however, appear that he was on the ground and they zapped him, for heaven’s sake! And how unworthy to persist with your name-calling. You know nothing about him. Unpleasant, undignified and unnecessary.

Big penises = more testosterone.

You seem to study at the r108 school of science. Nice correlation, but I don’t think its true, otherwise I would be made of pure testosterone.

Yun Chu said, “You must strictly not express in words what is very significant. Both dragon and snake are killed in one blow.”

Calm Down...you sure sounded like you had decided that the cops were guilty based on this “trial by you tube.”

Doesn’t the shoe fit well on the other foot?

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I’m speaking to Whistler there, by the way. But Pilgrim, I’m not against Tasers per se, who said I was? But it’s got to be used sparingly, surely? That was a sickening clip. If you’re so frightened of crime that a student on the ground has to be zapped again, then I feel for you. And is a college library really the place to strongarm somebody who was leaving anyway? It says he was walking towards the door. So why manhandle him? I would be pretty pissed off myself, to be honest, scared and embarrassed. A policeman needs to be a diplomat a lot of the time, and know how to defuse a situation. But they appear to have helped in escalating the situation.

Your usual MO. Sparkie. Whenever you get yourself into a debate and find yourself pounded by facts and logic you resort to camoflage. Stick to the thead this time.

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Pilgrim.
I’ll stick to the ‘thead’ if you give me some glue and tell me what the hell a ‘thead’ is.

Yun Chu said, “You must strictly not express in words what is very significant. Both dragon and snake are killed in one blow.”

Well, it’s my argument that very little could justify having to listen to that guy screaming in agony. i’m not condemning those cops. I just can’t see at this stage what could possibly justify the degree of pain inflicted. Particularly when he was already on the ground. Get up, they kept saying, correct? Why? I would like the facts, but I cannot imagine what facts (unless he was armed) could make what happened at all acceptable. I’d be happy to be proven wrong.

Thread, zippy. Thread. Type-o. I get carried away when I’m pounding you to mush.

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calm down....

If they were giving him commands and he wasn’t immediately complying the use of the tazer to shock him again is justified. I’ve seen it underused as well, when someone was shocked once but still wouldn’t put his hands behind his back or whatever and officers moved in too soon. The fight was on, and they had to back out so the tazer could be used again. Just because the guy is screaming doesn’t mean he’s responding to commands. And make no mistake...thore are COMMANDS. Not requests or suggestions.

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This isn’t Judge Dredd. Police don’t have the authority to dole out punishment, as these cops oviously did. He was already cuffed, on the ground, and not a threat. They should lose their jobs for using the taser again just because he wouldn’t stand up.

Anyway, sorry guys...I didn’t mean to hijack this thread (thead to you, Sparkie). It’s an area where I have some expertise and I can’t help interjecting my opinion.

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I like the police personally. Whenever they have a chance to put me away they get carried away and violate my rights. Then when I go to court I represent myself and crush them. There’s nothing like the look on a troopers face when a degenerate like me walks out a free man because the trooper is a rights abusing tard. God bless 8th grade educations.

Yun Chu said, “You must strictly not express in words what is very significant. Both dragon and snake are killed in one blow.”

Based on your last idiotic post, sparkie, I will now excuse myself from this thread. The imbecile level has just reached critical mass. Have a nice day.

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Police only protect us when they don’t abuse our rights. When they abuse our rights, crooks walk. Simple as that. When they abuse our rights, they guarantee crooks will be out on the streets. The cops you guys stick up for who abuse people’s right make it harder to lock up perps. That’s the point.

Yun Chu said, “You must strictly not express in words what is very significant. Both dragon and snake are killed in one blow.”

Without all the facts, I can’t really condemn one side or the other. However, that being said, with the evidence that was presented, I’d agree that the use of force seemed excessive. I respect the difficult challanges and tasks that police officers must take, but I feel that they still must be held accountable when they make clearly avoidable mistakes or abuses of their authority. This is the case in many private fields, such as medicine, and should be when dealing with the police force.

I don’t think these officers deserve to be prosecuted or fired, but a suspension and extra training classes may be beneficial.

Ken, I hope you don’t have people laughing at your pain and suffering.

Excuse me, but I was laughing at his stupidity, not his pain and suffering.

...I was laughing at his stupidity, not his pain and suffering.

Ken,

And now we have someone else’s stupidity to laugh at.

I laughed when I heard him getting tasered.  I’m not afraid to admit it.

Tasering hurts, I know (stupid high school prank, don’t ask), but it wasn’t like the dude was having his eyes gouged out.  He acted like an asshole, and then he got treated like one.

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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Thanks for you valuable input Pilgrim.  As you know I’m not automatically on the cops side in cases like this, but it’s obvious from the audio record that the cops did what they had to do.

What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.

It’s good to know that tax dollars are paying for cops to bully assholes…

A couple of other bloggers have been saying that the cops shouldn’t have tasered a guy who was essentially engaged in a non-violent protest.  He went limp is all.

I disagree.  This kid doesn’t have the right to disturb that library in the manner he did, nor does he have a right to ignore police instructions.  So he got tasered.

He deserved it.

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

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Rob, could you please link us to the particular law you’re referencing that says that citizens may be tasered for sitting down in a public library?

They should lose their jobs for using the taser again just because he wouldn’t stand up.

Uninformed bullshit opinion. Read my above posts for the facts about tasers. ‘Nuff said.

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It’s good to know that tax dollars are paying for cops to bully assholes…

No they were merely helping him leave the building where he wasn’t allowed.

Rob, could you please link us to the particular law you’re referencing that says that citizens may be tasered for sitting down in a public library?

He didn’t have a right to be there, he wouldn’t leave. 

He resisted arrest and got tazzed.

Too bad there’s nothing the little turd could have done to avoid the experience.

What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.

You guys seem to be purposely confusing the two instances of tasering. The first time may or may not have been warrented, it’s hard to say without having been there. The second time is completely unforgivable. The cops weren’t in danger, and all they had to do was carry him out.

It’s not their job to carry the little turd out.  Do you know how hard it is to carry a resisting person?  Why should the cops injure their back because the little turd didn’t want to cooperate.

Do you ever think before posting Chad?

What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.

1) The CSO’s were doing their job asking for students’ ID.
2) The student was asked to leave because he couldn’t produce ID.
3) The student *DID NOT COMPLY*.

It is at this point that the student is GUILTY. It was his CHOICE to not comply, and he suffered the consequences.

4) The cops get called in. Supposedly he was on his way out. Sorry, but that’s too late. This sint’ a little game for teh student to decide when he will or will not leave. And if it was his real intention to leave, he would have been gone BEFORE the cops arrived. But he was eating up the attention and the rush.

I think the patriot act comment and the other remark “this god-forsaken place” tells you a lot about the mindset of this person. He was causing a scene. And he was enjoying it - until the cops did something unexpected, which caused the child to freak out.

The cops endangered their own lives. This scene could have gotten much uglier if the other kids in the library decided to make a fight of it. I really believe the cops were far too complacent about the situation.

It’s not the use of force by the cops that bothers me - it’s that they didn’t handle the situation properly, thereby risking injury to themselves and the others there.

Regardless, the blame lies totally on the student. If he would have complied as he was supposed to, none of this would have happened. Period.

It’s not surprisign that those whoa re taking the kids side won’t mention the kid’s responsibility in all of this. Nope. Just a litany of excuses for the student’s bad behavior.

Good post, slick…

actually thinking the issue through before delivering an opinion. What a novel approach! Paying attention, lefties?

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It’s not their job to carry the little turd out.  Do you know how hard it is to carry a resisting person?

First of all, it is their job to carry “the little turd” out if that’s what the situation requires. Secondly, Chad was referring to the second tasering, after the student was already on the ground and subdued.

The cops endangered their own lives. This scene could have gotten much uglier if the other kids in the library decided to make a fight of it. I really believe the cops were far too complacent about the situation.

What should they have done? Tasered the sourrounding students? Drawn their weapons, or even fired? Because I can’t really think of any other scenario that is less complacent than tasering the student after he is already on the ground and subdued.

First of all, it is their job to carry “the little turd” out if that’s what the situation requires.

It’s certainly safer for the cops if the little turd walks himself out.

Probably safer for the guy because I’m pretty sure my hands would slip when we were close to the stairs.

Your post doesn’t make much sense, but I dig the avatar.  Sunshine Superman’s my favorite off of that set.

What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.

Probably the only way to inflame a bunch of students studying in a library is to unnecesarilly brutalize one in front of the others.

Next time they’ll take him out back and kick his ass.

Won’t be Taser cop, he’ll be out of a job and giving
depositions in the civil action.

Damned radicals.

After mechanical restraints were applied any further use of force was/is unnecessary and is illegal. It appears that the officers in question were using the taser to gain compliance with their verbal orders to get the kid to stand up. Proper procedure is to administer medical assistance by qualified medical personell after the application of force, and subsequent application of mechanical restraints. Once mechanical restraints (handcuffs) were applied and the suspect is on the ground no further force is permitted. The proper removal of the belligerant at this point was to carry him, and if he was kicking the officers additional restraints must be applied (leg irons) or plasticuffs (zip-ties). The initial use of force was necessary,appropriate and legal. The force used after the hand cuffing was unnecessary, excessive and not justified (illegal) under the circumstances.

"Stand up or i’ll taser you again!”

No, i’ve never heard that before!  Get Down or i’ll taser you i can understand, but get up?

No, these university rent-a-cops were way out of line here.  WAY out of line.

[Feet make good soup!]

Because I can’t really think of any other scenario that is less complacent than tasering the student after he is already on the ground and subdued.

He wasn’t subdued, he was still resisting.

All he had to do to end the tasering was cooperate.

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liber