Student Tased at John Kerry Speech
I have a few questions after watching this video besides the obvious one, who the hell cares what John Kerry has to say at this point in the game. This student was obviously intent on disrupting Kerry and getting him to answer some ACTUALLY relevant questions, that many democrats were undoubtably wondering…like “why did you concede victory in 2004″. After being taken down by police he is clearly (somewhat clearly) abused by some police while being removed.
My questions are this-
1. Is it ever necessary to taser someone who is on the ground with 5-6 cops on them? I suppose you can concoct a scenario where that would be necessary, but it appears this guy was tasered for not shutting up, which I find unacceptable.
2. What the fuck is wrong with John Kerry…he stands there cracking jokes during this assault. Nice job asshole.
September 18th, 2007 at 2:54 am
What’s truly horrifying here is that, not only did the gestapo arrest the guy for peacefully asking a question (his constitution right), everyone else in the room sat and watched and did not intervene, including John Kerry! WTF? Land of the Greedy and the Home of the Depraved.
September 18th, 2007 at 9:22 am
We’re living in a police state. Why can’t people see this? While this guy asked a good question and is rightfully sticking it to Kerry, he acts like a complete moron. Still, in any case, he was clearly abused.
He’s on the ground beneath a handful of cops asking why he’s being arrested. He has a constitutional right to know why he’s being arrested, and that right is being violated by the death squad before him. He even says if they let him go he’ll leave the building. Then they taser him?
And thank you, PJ White, for mentioning the obvious question about why no one else in the room (including Kerry) bothered to help him. In the final seconds of the video, some administrative-looking dipshit tells the other students to stay back. Yeah, stay back and let the fucking pigs do their bidding.
“Fuck the police.”
—N.W.A.
September 19th, 2007 at 10:24 am
So in hindsight a few reports came out on what a sensationalist jerk this questioneer is. This is clearly evident from the video, and I posted this mostly because the police and citizens could hopefully use this to LEARN better ways to diffuse this type of thing. Also because Kerry is supposed to be a LEADER, and he makes jokes during the incident. Then he comes out today and condemns the arrest, and claims he didn’t know the guy was tasered. Oh yeah he wrote a book about the environment well after he saw AL Gore having some political success with the issue. John Kerry “I can’t seem to do anything right in the moment”…and this was the best the Democrats could toss up against George “Sovernennities” Bush. We are truly doomed, and I’m really sad Doug Stanhope has decided not to run for president.
September 20th, 2007 at 10:09 am
its really sick to see how controlled we are now a days…seeing something thats clearly wrong and we let it go unnoticed, wiped from our memory. our founding fathers would be rolling in their graves if they knew about this.
September 23rd, 2007 at 7:33 pm
Looks to me like he asked several compound questions and wasn’t letting Kerry answer. Not that I care about Kerry. It appeared that he was disrupting the conference and the police tried to lead him peacefully out. He decided to resist and act like a fool screaming and carrying on. He asked his questions, he was led out he should have just left. He was told several times not to resist, they didn’t even need to arrest him. What if he had pulled out a gun and shot several of the crowd members. Then you would blame the cops for not leading him out before.
What do you people want?
September 23rd, 2007 at 7:49 pm
Most people reacted to this because of the tasering. That was the only thing that was uncalled for. The kid was a jerk, but the taser was uncalled for. Police were piled upon him and had complete control of the situation. He was down and whining like a baby before they tasered him. Oh yeah and not everyone is a liberal because they don’t endorse police brutality, this might only confuse you further as you are clearly attempting to make this a partisan issue with your name selection.
September 25th, 2007 at 8:56 pm
John Kerry is an ass clown. People went to see him speak? That was this year?