“In 37 years of public appearances, through wars, protests and highly emotional events, I have never had a dialogue end this way,” Kerry said in a statement. “I believe I could have handled the situation without interruption, but I do not know what warnings or other exchanges transpired between the young man and the police prior to his barging to the front of the line and their intervention. I asked the police to allow me to answer the question and was in the process of responding when he was taken into custody.”
“I was not aware that a taser was used until after I left the building,” he continued. “I hope that neither the student nor any of the police were injured. I regret enormously that a good healthy discussion was interrupted.”
I maintain that this was a righteous tasering, for all the reasons I laid out last night, and I believe that Kerry is only distancing himself from it as that’s the least controversial position to have on the subject for someone like him. After all, he isn’t going to tick off the moonbat hordes that are holding this mental midget up as some sort of free-speech martyr now, and going the “I’m sorry it happened” route is probably the safest bet.
But what’s interesting is that he says he didn’t know the kid was being tased...until he left.
Here’s the video again:
I find it bloodly unlike that John Kerry didn’t know what was going on.
Regardless, that’s a tough spot for any politician to be in. There’s really not much of anything to pin on Kerry other than this ex post facto bit of grandstanding.
The kid was being an idiot. He was disrupting the event, he was asked to leave, he wouldn’t leave, he resisted police officers called in to escort him out and he was subdued for this using the tools provided to the police officers for this purpose.
What’s more, it’s a bit tiresome to hear people keep saying over and over again that the “cops” grabbed this kid. I mean, they did, but at who’s behest? Something tells me the cops were responding to a complain from event organizers, not acting of their own volition.