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Friday, September 21st, 2007, 3:04 PM
QUOTE (CobaltBlue @ Friday, September 21st, 2007, 10:35 AM)

To be honest, I was actually a little underwhelmed with the video footage. Keeps getting so much talk...and then you can't even really see anything. Maybe I'm desensitized after seeing so many "Jackass" moments where people get gratuitously tazed.
Also, I don't get why so many people are siding with the student in this one. He was acting like a crazy person and resisting removal/arrest. They did something short, non-lethal, and non-permanent to get him to stop. Possibly excessive force? Maybe...but definitely not to a ridiculous degree. There are certainly far more egregious misapplications of law enforcement than in this case.
QUOTE (Dogpatch @ Friday, September 21st, 2007, 11:12 AM)

People are siding with the student because none of the videos show him running up to the podium after he has been told that time is up for asking questions. And as you said, it's hard to see in the videos, but he was fighting even after being put on the ground.
exactly
my roomate was director of security there (for the group that ran the show) said they cut the mic. bc he said blowjob
after he wasnt even supposed to be up there and made a scene and police told him to keep it short or they will take him out
and they warned him about the taser saying "if you dont walk out of here we will tase u" well he fell to the floor fighting so they shocked him
he did it all to make a scene and even admited the cops did nothing wrong