The cops tase a kid five times, and all he gets is several hundred thousand people watching it on YouTube
So I was just getting ready to go to bed, and I ran into this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3GstYOIc0I&eurl=
The UCLA campus police tased this poor bugger five times because he refused to show his student ID when asked. He's Iranian-American, and he thought he was being profiled. Probably was. Probably should have pulled out his ID anyway, avoided a confrontation with the cops, and filed a lawsuit the next day. Instead, he tried to make a scene, the cops overreacted, and now brown people all over the country have yet another reason to think that the rest of us think they're all terrorists. God Bless America. Morons and Assholes working together and against each other for the betterment of Lord knows what...
Anyway, I couldn't get around YouTube's 500-character limit, and I'm putting my brief thoughts down here:
Everyone on either side of the issue should be able to take the following lesson to heart: if the police give you a command that amounts to a violation of your civil rights, comply with the command and then take the matter to court later. The police won't use force unless they think it's justified. Many policemen, however, aren't that good at figuring out what's justfied and what's not - keep in mind that they work a job that might kill them on any given shift. Don't risk getting your ass beat by the cops. Do what they say, find a few witnesses, and call a lawyer. That's the American way. That's why we have our legal system - so we don't have to resort to mob violence to stand up for what's right. If this kid really thought that he was being profiled, he should have filed a lawsuit the next day. I'd probably feel different about the matter if I were brown and had lived through five years of post 9/11 America, but what the hell did this guy think he was going to accomplish by getting a bunch of hippie-ass Californians riled up?
That all being said, there's no earthly reason that the cops couldn't have subdued a 20-year-old college student without tasing him five times. What happened to the days when the cops knew how to wrench a punk's arm up behind his back to establish control? No damage, no fuss, no muss, and certainly no need to cause a scene in front of several hundred freaked-out liberal college students with cellphone cameras.
Aaagh...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3GstYOIc0I&eurl=
The UCLA campus police tased this poor bugger five times because he refused to show his student ID when asked. He's Iranian-American, and he thought he was being profiled. Probably was. Probably should have pulled out his ID anyway, avoided a confrontation with the cops, and filed a lawsuit the next day. Instead, he tried to make a scene, the cops overreacted, and now brown people all over the country have yet another reason to think that the rest of us think they're all terrorists. God Bless America. Morons and Assholes working together and against each other for the betterment of Lord knows what...
Anyway, I couldn't get around YouTube's 500-character limit, and I'm putting my brief thoughts down here:
Everyone on either side of the issue should be able to take the following lesson to heart: if the police give you a command that amounts to a violation of your civil rights, comply with the command and then take the matter to court later. The police won't use force unless they think it's justified. Many policemen, however, aren't that good at figuring out what's justfied and what's not - keep in mind that they work a job that might kill them on any given shift. Don't risk getting your ass beat by the cops. Do what they say, find a few witnesses, and call a lawyer. That's the American way. That's why we have our legal system - so we don't have to resort to mob violence to stand up for what's right. If this kid really thought that he was being profiled, he should have filed a lawsuit the next day. I'd probably feel different about the matter if I were brown and had lived through five years of post 9/11 America, but what the hell did this guy think he was going to accomplish by getting a bunch of hippie-ass Californians riled up?
That all being said, there's no earthly reason that the cops couldn't have subdued a 20-year-old college student without tasing him five times. What happened to the days when the cops knew how to wrench a punk's arm up behind his back to establish control? No damage, no fuss, no muss, and certainly no need to cause a scene in front of several hundred freaked-out liberal college students with cellphone cameras.
Aaagh...
posted by Dr. Chuck | 1:02 AM
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