John Kerry is running?

[Tango]

Watch the video. The officers are standing behind him and when the mic is turned off they grab him.

The moderators asking him to leave is different from the police asking him [which they didn't do].

I remember watching a video of protesters at the Capital building causing a disruption. The Police came in and asked them to leave with them. A couple of them didn't and they were escorted out. One in handcuffs. THAT is how they are to handle the situation. Jumping a guy that probably doesn't even know they are behind him and isn't making any threats or causing harm isn't.

[Mickey1992]

Originally posted by Tango
As for the tasering, it did get abit out of hand and looked like they tasered him after he was cuffed.

Watch this video.  In between him telling the officers to "get the F*** off me", once they get him to the ground and rolled over, you can clearly see him pull his arm away from the officers (again) and grab the row of seats right when he gets  the taser.  He clearly was not handcuffed.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f4b_1190069526

[Yknurd]

**** the taser, they should have shot him.

[clerick]

Originally posted by Tango
Watch the video. The officers are standing behind him and when the mic is turned off they grab him.

The moderators asking him to leave is different from the police asking him [which they didn't do].

I remember watching a video of protesters at the Capital building causing a disruption. The Police came in and asked them to leave with them. A couple of them didn't and they were escorted out. One in handcuffs. THAT is how they are to handle the situation. Jumping a guy that probably doesn't even know they are behind him and isn't making any threats or causing harm isn't.

Where to start with this??

First of all he was not "jumped".  Being overly dramatic in your wording will get you no respect.

The moderators are the authority, the police are the enforcers.  The need not negotiate with an adult intent on causing disruption.

He maybe didn't make any specific threats, but some of his movements were erratic as was his behavior. If you believe that his behavior wasn't a problem then none of us will get anywhere with you.  There is a standard of behavior that all people are expected to uphold, if you don't get that, and believe that staging a confrontation in order to bait the authorities into action isn't causing harm, then i pity you and the long road you have to walk in your life.

[rpm]

Originally posted by 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.

To be quite honest with you that sounds like one of Bush's "Town Meetings". I seem to remember a similar scenario in West Virginia and you guys were all for it. Pot? Kettle?