UF Student arrested, tasered, for asking Kerry about Skull & Bones Options

[jonathan83]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=6bVa6jn4rpE&...ted&search=

This is messed up. This guy is screaming for help and he gets tasered just for asking questions to Sen. Kerry. This is appalling. You can hear several girls asking the police to stop because he's being tortured by that damn taser. What the hell...


More video after he's led outside: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3ec_1190097717&p=1

Articles:
http://www.local10.com/news/14138122/detai...ia&psp=news
http://www.local6.com/news/14138039/detail.html
http://www.gainesvillesun.com/article/2007...80325/1007/NEWS

[impala454]

the guy refused to leave, and then fought with the police and resisted arrest. the cops even told him to stop resisting or he would be tasered. he deserved what he got.

[Seeker]

the guy refused to leave, and then fought with the police and resisted arrest. the cops even told him to stop resisting or he would be tasered. he deserved what he got.

Where in the video did the guy resist arrest? And since when is tasering the first method employed to subdue someone? Police are supposed to go down the list when attempting to arrest someone, not jump straight to tasering.

Police can employ the following to subdue a subject:
--Physical force
--Serious physical force (strikes and kicks)
--OC (pepper spray, Mace being a common brand)
--Baton
--Taser
--Firearm

[impala454]

Where in the video did the guy resist arrest?

uh, throughout the entire thing

And since when is tasering the first method employed to subdue someone?

it wasn't the first method they used. they told him to leave, he wouldn't leave, they physically tried to remove him, he still wouldn't leave. they got on top of him and tried to cuff him, he still wouldn't leave. i dunno how much more resisting arrest you want.

Police are supposed to go down the list when attempting to arrest someone, not jump straight to tasering.

Police can employ the following to subdue a subject:
--Physical force
--Serious physical force (strikes and kicks)
--OC (pepper spray, Mace being a common brand)
--Baton
--Taser
--Firearm

so, you're upset and say the crowd should have kicked the cops ass, but according to your list here you'd have been happier if they'd beaten the kid and pepper sprayed him instead? (in this case i don't think pepper spray was an option anyways considering the number of people in there sitting close by).

[jonathan83]

uh, throughout the entire thing

he had his hands in the air asking "what are you doing?" "why are you arresting me?" and they wouldnt tell him shit.

it wasn't the first method they used. they told him to leave, he wouldn't leave,

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when did they tell him to leave? look at the beginning of the video, they never said crap to him, they just up and starting cuffing him right after asking about skull and bones.

they physically tried to remove him, he still wouldn't leave. they got on top of him and tried to cuff him, he still wouldn't leave. i dunno how much more resisting arrest you want.

what? they were ON TOP OF HIM. how could he leave? they were tasering him and on top, he was just lying there. of course he couldn't leave.