This threat is defenitely showing the difference between european and american opinions... @Derek: Who wouldn't fight back when you know you didn't do anything wrong? Secondly, in the video you can see some people talking to the cops and telling them to arrest the guy, which would be because of the questions he asked. And I still don't understand why people aren't trying to help him...
Derek, I'm sorry but I couldn't see a thing on that video. Infact it made me feel even stronger for the student because he was right, he was saying something other people agreed with too because they clapped for him. It just shows the police kept interfering so he couldn't say what he wanted to say. Kerry would've answered his question, but I'm really curious about what his answer would be... I didn't see any kicking or pushing, he was obviously right. The people around him were shocked by how the policemen acted and the tasering just pushed that even further. There was no need for it and that's the end of this for me...
He did do something wrong. Instead of showing some decency and leaving the podium when his time was up (which everybody else did) he tried to make a scene. I'm starting to think he did this all on purpose just so he could become a martyr or something. If he knows he didn't do anything wrong, there's a legal system in place to prove that. This all could have EASILY been avoided had he not made an ass out of himself.
He just asked important questions (was it his fault there were many?) and didn't understand why the cops reacted that way.
If you're at a public event where you are allowed to question someone and you are given guidelines, you do NOT break those guidelines or else you face some sort of consequence. It's not that hard to understand. He deliberately disobeyed the rules that were given and was being escorted out as a result. So yes, it was his fault that there were so many. If he really wanted to know the answer to all of his questions, he could've politely asked someone next to him to ask John Kerry instead of breaking the rules and causing a scene. I honestly don't feel the least bit sympathetic for him.
What an arrogant jerk. I've dealt with drunk people and seen it when i've been out, you get the situation under control as fast as possible without making a huge scene. Yeah he was just asking questions, but if they are arresting you, then you go a long you don't scream and shout like an idiot because it will just land you in more trouble, i heard on the video derek posted that they were saying they would tazer him if he didn't co-operate, and then he resisted arrest for not putting his hands behind his back. Yeah there was like 7 campus police there, but the fact was, that guy would have just tried his luck if there were just 2, so i have no sympathy what so ever for the guy. He just chose the hard way :\
What I see in the video is him asking numerous questions in one sentence. What we were watching was well past the one-minute mark, well after the University staff approached him numerous times to wrap things up, so I'm unsure how that conclusion can be made.
The guy was trying to make the police look bad for calmly escorting him out. He kept going 'DO YOU SEE THIS?', 'GET YOUR FUCKING HANDS OFF OF ME' etc. What an attention seeking douche. He deserved everything he got.
Sorry Todd but that's not what he was saying at all and you know it. The fact of the matter is that these people are trained to deal with situations like this (well, they're trained to be able to subdue people anyway) and yet both videos show no evidence of them handling the situation in a professional manner at all even though there are around 7 or 8 officers. You mean to tell me that with all the training of 7 or 8 cops combined their solution to a completely non-violent problem was to grapple the guy to the ground and tase him? I've seen first hand singular police officers handling a far worse situation than this without the use of weapons. Jesus, with this evidence they probably would have shot him if he made a break for it. But then again that seems to be the way of a large part of the American police force - shoot first and ask quiestions later.
Normally I would agree with this statement, but it's just not true in this case. They warned him that if he didn't calm down they were going to use the taser, he refused. This guy knew exactly what he was doing and knew he was starting a bunch of bullshit over nothing. He could have just dealt with getting thrown out, but oh no... he had to go and make an ass of himself and he was dealt with accordingly.
I don't see the point of everyone yelling stuff at everyone in this thread. What happened, happened. You cannot change someone elses views. -_-
Why are they resorting to the taser anyway? If the guy is resisting arrest there's more than enough of them to drag him out of the place and into a cop car.
There's no yelling going on. It's a debate. Debates happen in Serious Chat. This was a non-violent situation until he started pushing and shoving at the officers who were originally trying to calmly take him out of the auditorium. He upped the aggression by resisting, and they needed to make sure he was removed from the auditorium, for the safety of Kerry and anyone else. He continued to resist, and even tried to break away, until the officers finally wrestled him to the ground. At this point, he was going out of control and deliberately disobeying their orders to calm down. At one point, one of the policewomen told him, straight to his face, that if he did not calm down and stop resisting, he would be tased. Fully knowing the consequences of refusing to cooperate, he continued to resist the arrest, forcing the officers to subdue him via taser, and subsequently helping him achieve his goal of being turned into some sort of martyr or lightning rod for upholders of the "freedom of speech" debate. He got what he wanted; attention.
Yes, I figured that much. I should've used something else instead of 'yelling'. Ohwell, I'm never good at this. *walks out*