John Kerry is running?

[GtoRA2]

This video wont help him if he is.


To be fair it does sound like Kerry says he wants to answer the question and school security went overboard.


But it does sound like the kid was looking for  trouble too.

[Bodhi]

If it was an open public forum, the kid had a right to ask any questions he had.

The Gestapo obviously did not like it and therefore tried to remove the voice.  I suspect that a rather large and incovenient lawsuit is going to come out of that episode.  Furthermore, the fact that the other people just sat back and watched the Gestapo wrongfully try to haul someone off is further proof of the sheep mentality of this country.

[indy007]

Depends what source you read. A few of them said that it was a lecture, the kid grabbed somebody's mic from them, and started berating the people.

[Airscrew]

I would be nice if I understood or could make out the question, try to figure out what the trigger was that set everybody off...  I was all on his side until he started begging and crying....I'll have to do some looking and see if this was a recent event or old news.  It says 9/17/2007

[Russian]

Wow....they even took out weapons....I would like to know more info on this...I have yet to see 4 cops 'supervise' what is being said in the interview/lecture.

[Airscrew]

some info.  He was tasered, well that explains the crying at the end.  It would appear his only crime was exceeding his alloted time at the microphone...



http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hfZBulx_H-prruRU2Clj0dIgUOww

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,297126,00.html

http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2007/09/17/968858-student-arrested-tasered-at-kerry-event

[Mickey1992]

He had asked his questions during his alloted time.  He kept on rambling after being told his time was up.  His microphone was turned off.  He gets visibly upset and emotional.  He refuses to let others speak.  He is asked to step away.  He refuses.  He then resists arrest.  He then gets the tazer.

[Yknurd]

He got what he deserved.

If he feared the tazer so much then should have taken the hint to shut up and leave when they turned the microphone off.

[storch]

or he should take up aikido and steven segal the rentacops

[myelo]

I'm all for tazering of people who ramble on past their alloted time. I think we should extend this policy to politicians, insurance salesmen, preachers, United Way spokespersons, and actors and musicians who blather on about anything other than acting and music.

[Tango]

Even if he was out of time and was aked to leave by the speaker, it doesn't give the cops the right to instantly grab him and drag him out. Why didn't they ask him to leave with them? THEN if he refused they would have had the right to grab him and drag him out.

I bet they were campus cops which is just about as bad as rent-a-cops.

[jhookt]

i hope they are all fired and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.


i hate cops on power trips.

[jhookt]

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hfZBulx_H-prruRU2Clj0dIgUOww


i love the insta- slander the media starts in with at the end of the article. what about the 2 cops on admin leave? what's their background like? they ever pinch someone just to hurt them?


speak out against the man and ye shall be B!@#$ slapped

[Mickey1992]

Originally posted by Tango
Even if he was out of time and was aked to leave by the speaker, it doesn't give the cops the right to instantly grab him and drag him out. Why didn't they ask him to leave with them?

They did, didn't you watch the video?  He keeps on rambling, "what did I do?, what did I do?".  I have the feeling his intention all along was to disrupt the meeting and bait the cops into doing exactly what they did.

[2bighorn]

"We're absolutely committed to having a safe environment for our faculty and our students so that a free exchange of ideas can occur," Machen said.

I just love how advanced society we've become and finally figured out that no free exchange occurs without protection of black and brown uniforms...