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University of Florida Student Tasered At Political Rally
An anonymous reader writes "During a political rally at the University of Florida, an annoying student was tasered while attempting to ask Senator Kerry (D-MA) some questions regarding the 2004 election. Police are looking into whether excessive force was used to prevent the student from going over his alloted question period." There are also several YouTube videos available of the incident.
Oh please. We (meaning liberals)don't need make crap like that. If we want to discuss how evil the GOP is all we have to do is talk about the million+ dead in Iraq. Have fun living with that on your conscience.
If you wanna get rich, you know that payback is a bitch
As opposed to the million + and way more that are dead because of Saddam? And all the people who are glad we got rid of him?
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He got hostile with the cops. He's also a well known attention seeker.
Actually, given the latter, I do wish he *hadn't* been tazed because now the little douchebag will get all the attention he sought, and I'll have to see his dumb puss if I so much as get near a newscast. Guys like him... he probably had an orgasm when the jolt hit him because he knew he had his media ticket.
This country has gone quite insane, I'm sure.
Oh, lighten up. It's Christmas.
Disturbing the peace. He was disturbing the peaceful meeting of that group for that public forum. He purposefully disturbed the peace.
You are an asshole if you can't see that.
There is no "-1 offended" or "-1 you don't agree with me" mod options for a reason.
You don't know this "kid", and by "kid" I mean asshole adult, you were not there, and you are pretty much clueless.
He is in college and is an adult. He should know how to behave. He purposely disrupted the forum, refused to leave, and then resisted arrest. He has a blog and was trying to get some publicity for it.
By flailing his arms, he committed battery on a police officer. He was not physically abused by the police. He abused the police. Once one resists arrest, the police is not going to let one "leave peacefully" because the police are already in the process of making the arrest. He was not arrested for resisting arrest. He was arrest for trespassing and disturbing the peace.
If he does not know how to act like an adult, perhaps he should be put in an institution until he learns. And perhaps you should join him as you seem to have no clue as to where his and your rights end and the rights of other begin.
There is no "-1 offended" or "-1 you don't agree with me" mod options for a reason.
Maybe I'm just growing more jaded toward our society in general, but it seems that as a whole, everyone seems to be gravitating to the Me First attitude, where it's all about Me. Rude drivers who cut to the front of the line, instant gratification whores (what do you mean that item is out of stock? I want it now!!), people who just don't think the rules apply if they're not happy. Here's a guy that thinks he can waltz into an auditorium and act like a lunatic.
Why are we afraid of a good, old-fashioned ass whooping? That's why he needs, IMHO. His right to air his grievances is fine as long as he doesn't encroach on other people's rights. And he did. He got tased - and instead of hobbling around for a few days with bruises and a black eye, he's no worse for the wear. Perhaps he should be thankful that's all he got...
It just doesn't work.
GB gets asked harder questions every day. That guys questions were wimpy, and he was pro-kerry (was?).
It's hard to tell what was said to him by the police, a simple "Calm down and he will answer the question" may have worked, and turning off the mic remotely would have helped as well.
The guy was a little "enthused" but at least he wasn't making up things.
Guy gets tasered by cops for "going over the alloted QA period" - and the first thing everybody here does is blame the guy.
Maybe he deserved it, maybe not. But the FIRST reaction of most people here is "the guy deserved it."
Talk about gutless, butt-puckered punks. This generation deserves to be drafted, sent to Iraq and Iran and get their butts blown off by IEDs because they don't have the balls to oppose the war criminals in power.
Anybody who will bend over for a geek like Bill Gates will bend over for George Bush - or maybe even Martha Stewart.
Punks. The lot of you.
Here's my take. The only good cop is a dead cop. The only good FLORIDA cop is a dead and mutilated Florida cop. Florida cops are KNOWN nation-wide for being excessively violent, fascist, total scumbags. They're on a par with New York or Texas or Los Angeles cops - or some nitwit State Trooper from Lousiana. Put a bullet in the head of all of them.
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