09-18-2007, 10:03 PM | #1 |
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UF student tasered.
Was this deserved?
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09-18-2007, 11:18 PM | #2 |
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Here is a UF thread about it...
http://www.gatorsportsforum.com/foru...c.php?t=193981 http://www.gatorsportsforum.com/foru...c.php?t=193925 |
09-18-2007, 11:49 PM | #3 |
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I hope he sues the ass off the University. He was clearly already restrained when he was tasered. There was absolutely no justification for the cops' overuse of force.
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09-18-2007, 11:53 PM | #4 |
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Didn't Rodney King teach us all that there comes a point where you're better off not struggling against a bevy of police?
I don't care if the tasering was warranted or not, the dude dug himself into that hole. BTW, if you're going to ask a guest like that a question, at least have enough intelligence to ask it in a way that isn't going to get your butt thrown out. I enjoyed watching that little weanie squeal. P.S. I can see that SoonerCoug's little avatar boy was pretty distraught watching that video. Last edited by Indy Coug; 09-18-2007 at 11:57 PM. |
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How can you say you don't care if the tasering was warranted? What would it take to make you care? What if they had pistol-whipped him? What if they had shot him in the head? I'm guessing that since the student was white you'd probably draw the line at shooting him in the head.
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09-19-2007, 12:14 AM | #6 | |
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I'm not saying it was warranted, I'm saying if the guy had just quietly left he wouldn't have had any of this happen to him. They warned him ahead of time they were going to taser him if he struggled and he still struggled. If he had stopped struggling then, he wouldn't have been tasered. They probably didn't need to and probably shouldn't have tasered him, but I'm not crying a river for him either. |
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I read a rumor (not worth much) that he handed his camera to a friend and said "watch this" before he started his diatribe. I think he wanted something to happen. It worked. |
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09-19-2007, 12:22 AM | #8 |
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He was actively resisting arrest. He was warned that he would be tasered. He continued to resist. He was tasered.
Do I think the cops were unprofessional? Yes. In their difficulty of subduing him without tasering. But I don't have a problem with tasering him under these circumstances, where he was continuing to resist and had been warned. |
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