It's yet ANOTHER Huffington Post blogger that simply doesn't want to be bothered with seeing evidence and looking at those pesky "facts".
Zach Marks writes about the recent tasing of a university student.
I watched in disgust as Andrew Meyer, 21, was dragged by police through the auditorium and tasered repeatedly after he pleaded, "Don't tase me!" while Kerry did nothing to intervene. Every time the taser's shock caused Meyer to shriek, I didn't just hear a defenseless young man screaming in pain, I saw a fellow student becoming the victim of police brutality and unconstitutional censorship. Sure, Meyer's rant was getting a little long-winded, but while his verbal diarrhea may have deserved the ire of the audience, it certainly did not justify the violent arrest that prompted one onlooker to shout, "This is Rodney King all over again." Obviously an overstatement, but the police's use of force was undoubtedly unwarranted.
Really Zach? Do you think that after being put on the ground by several officers and him still flailing his arms around that he didn't deserve to be tased? Do you think he should have been able to keep that arm free? What if he had reached for an officer's gun? The officers were clearly trying to arrest him, he was resisting, and he was warned before that if he didn't stop, he'd be tased.
He continued, and he was tased.
Of course, there's always going to be a "march" and "outrage" by students.
There's even an entry in the police report where your "victim" told officers "You didn't do anything wrong".
Care to explain that Zach? Or are you going to go off on a tangent on how this is all a "police state" and other bullshit for officers just doing their job and a perfectly good textbook example of what to do when someone gets unruly and won't leave when told to do so. At that point, he's trespassing, you know, a crime.
Travis
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