You don't catch on too quick, do you?
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Quote by: ruksak  You really aren't serious are you? Thats exactly what the whole issue was. They attempted to escort him out, right? I seem to remember how that didn't work out. |
The goal was to escort him out without giving him all the publicity that he so obviously wanted. They had the kid on the ground, and they had the crowd on their side UNTIL they tasered him unnecessarily. Are you really going to try and tell me that this bunch of cops couldn't drag a handcuffed and restrained kid out without tasering him??
You really need to think things out before you post.
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Quote by: ruksak I'm still waiting for your proposal as to how you would have handled that kid. |
I believe that I've made that clear.
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Quote by: ruksak First of all, how are police supposed to go about their jobs without having authority? |
I never said that cops don't have authority, did I? I said that they frequently ABUSE that authority, leading some people to disrespect them. I know that I don't grant any cops the same automatic recognition of authority that I used to.
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Quote by: ruksak Secondly, what rights of this kid were violated?
Did they violate his right to disturb the peace? Did they rob him of his right to physically shove cops out of his way?
His right to crash a public forum with verbal abuse was definitely infringed. |
Your so-called sarcasm is wasted here. Again, since you don't seem to be able to read, I never said ANY of the kid's rights were violated, that he had the right to disturd the peace or shove cops. Where do you get this stuff??
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Quote by: ruksak I see what you mean now. Who are the police to think they they have a right to handcuff a person, just because hes under arrest. They didn't even ask him if it was a good time to handcuff him. They just assumed since they have a "job" to protect others that somehow this means they can do so at the expense of a threatening mans freedom. |
More extraneous garbage. I believe that I have said previously that the cops can legally justify their actions, the point is that there were other, better ways to handle this situation without giving the kid everything he wanted in the first place, and making themselves look like gestapo storm troopers. They're not dumb cops because they violated anyone's rights, or removed a disruptive kid. They're dumb cops because they turned a routine individual protest into a nationally televised event when it should have been totally non-newsworthy. They didn't use any common sense.
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Quote by: ruksak Dumb cops. |