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Originally Posted by Walker
Kerry is such a flake. Democrats wonder why Bush beat him in '04 but its not hard to see why when his own party has trouble supporting him.
This incident just goes to show how both parties are tainted.
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Are you
dense?
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Originally Posted by Lucifer
Lesson of the day: If an officer requests you to do something - do it. You can protest it later through other channels that are far less likely to get you tasered.
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Uh, more like make an even bigger scene because what the cops did was unconstitutional. He wasn't making a public disturbance because Kerry was trying to answer his questions. If Kerry had asked him to shut up, it would have been different.
The police officers were out of line, and Andrew could have handled it better and gone down a little more respectably, but in the end it makes the news and gets spread.
Had this happened in a town hall meeting with Bush, we'd all be screaming bloody murder, what is the difference with Kerry?
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Originally Posted by whitney_03
My brother is a police officer and I can tell you he would have done the same. I work at a psych hospital and I will tell you we give PRN meds and restraints BEFORE someone gets assaulted. The police use the same tactics. They use crisis prevention methods to restrain/subdue someone BEFORE they hurt someone. If this guy is a big fan of making a scene then the police obviously could not trust that he wouldn't have stooped to any kind of low to do so.
Why do people have such a low opinion of the people that risk their lives to keep us safe? I really don't understand why we are so quick to think that a police officer would do something intentionally to hurt someone. Just like anyone else in this field, they have to justify why they did this later to their supervisor and possibly in defense to their job, so why would they do something to endanger their job security?
Is that not bias? Is it not a prejudice?
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Your brother needs to be re-trained. Tasering people is not the way to silence them. You wait until he actually
is a public disturbance, and then you handle things without unnecessary force -- cuff him and escort him out. Don't taser him while he's pinned to the floor and you haven't even brought out the cuffs.
And fucking answer his question when he asks why he's being arrested.