Posted by
realetybytes on Tuesday, September 18, 2007 8:53:25 PM
On 9/18/07 a student was Tazored by campus police when he caused a minor disturbance at an open mike Q&A with Sen. Kerry.
If not, (and I think not!), then he should not have been tazed! When they proposed tazers for the police, it was for them to use against attackers with weapons other then firearms, so as to stop a deadly attack without having to shoot. Regardless of politics, location or who was or was not present, any use of a tazer can only be justified if the answer to the question, "was the officers life, or anyone elses life, in danger, and was shooting the perpetrator the only other option". If the person fights, the officers fight back, and file the appropriate charges. Otherwise, we'll have a bunch of heavily armed Judge Dredd's out making sure everyone is obediant. Punishing a perp is not the cops job, but if these people get away with it, it will be. He may be a jerk, but even the Dean knows this is going to cost the school lots of money in an abuse of power and police brutality lawsuit, not to mention civil rights violations.
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