Up The Middle

I feel the need to say something about the article and video circulating of the Florida student being tasered at the Kerry function. 

I don't understand the outrage- he precipated the actions against him. I'm not implying that police brutality and abuse don't exist but this is simply not a case of that. This man was clearly being disorderly, the video shows him telling officers who are trying to escort him away to "get the fuck off me." Then he promptly resists arrest when being pulled away. The american public is quick to jump on police officers, but how bout you put yrself in their shoes. What if all u wanted to do is escort a man, who was clearly making the event his personal forum and preventing other students from asking questions, out of the building and he started to cuss and swing at you. Then when u try to manhandle him away he becomes even more beligerent and resistant. So u try to handcuff him and he fights u? Could u always keep yr cool, do u have another suggestion for making him obey? Or should they have just let him go and proved that the law doesn't apply to him and can't really be enforced? A lot of ppl expect police officers to be superhuman, to have some divine solution for problems. They don't, they are men and women just like everyone else.

Some want to make this about politics, that this is some kind of "state" act. He wasn't arrested b/c he hogged the mic, he was arrested because he wouldn't leave, he wasn't tased b/c he asked a question, he was tased b/c he was resisting arrest.  His questions were cheeky at best- were kerry and bush a member of skull & bones? impeaching president bush? These were  not overly serious questions and definitely of limited importance. But even so thats not why he was asked to leave- he was told his time was up yet proceeded with his absurd questions. Police were obviously trying to allow other students a chance to ask Senator Kerry (who i'm certain was not available indefinitely) a question or two. It was clearly then that the student NOT law enforcement began to escalate the situtation. And on the oft chance that he was handcuffed before being tased, an individual in cuffs can still resist, can refuse to and make it difficult to pick himself up, kick, flail,etc. With the reaction to this incident by some you would think police officers pistol whipped him or drug him cuffed behind their car.