UPDATED: More Student Tasering — Zapped For Not Removing His Hat

Yeah, he’s a bit nutty about his hat. But tazering him? Yeah, he may have caused disruption during the meeting….but tazering him? Did they really need to tazer him? He stood by his conviction that he wanted to wear his hat…nutty for sure. But the council also stood by their conviction for the idiotic rule about removing your hat. Wow, they showed that guy. Who cares if you remove your hat or not. Don’t tell me about this “it’s a sign of respect”. So much so to where you get tazered for it?

How about this, ignore the fricken hat and get on with the meeting. Did the guy stand up in the audience (he was only there for extra credit for an urban sociology class) and say “I’m not gonna remove my hat”. No, he didn’t. I hate this idiotic forced respect crap. Sorry, you have to earn my respect just like I have to earn your respect. You don’t get a special pass because of age or rank or office you hold with me. To me, everyone is equally worthless.

But I guess they forced this guy to respect them. Tazer them into submission! Now, on with the meeting….

Whats with the Taser mad culture?

One of the best writeups I have seen on the subject recently can be found here. It’s moderately long, but be sure to read all of it before drawing any conclusions.

http://tinyurl.com/y6g368

Rules? Why should I follow any steenkin’ rules?

If they start tazering people for being nutty about something, everybody’s on the hit list.

I think we should remember that these people are being tasered instead of being clubbed, punched, pepper sprayed or shot.

Being tasered may be unpleasant but it’s better than the alternatives.

I couldn’t agree with #8 more.

This is crazy! I live near all of this madness and the first I hear of it is from dvorak.org? Crazy.

This/these remind me of the regular rading I get on my handheld from the Cato Institute (Libertarian). They have several commentaries about how often SWAT teams are used for entry to homes that are NOT immediate threats.

A police state is great, if you’re the police.

J/P=?

#8. I’m with RBG!

#10. “What’s next? Tazering for jaywalking?…”

Shhh! Don’t give them any ideas!

#12. I think I’d have more respect for his “crown” opinion if it was a BK crown.

When you put your hands on an unrestrained suspect bad things can happen. We should really watch these liberal knee jerk reactions. They cloud real issues. We don’t have stun phasers, and taser is the best non-lethal alternative. I’ve been pepper sprayed and I guarantee you don’t want that. You would never believe a human being could manufacture that many tears and snot in such a short period. Also the damn mess gets everywhere. Beside this shouldn’t bother such a bad ass dud as this.

Flint, MI has Bloods and Crips? I thought they were just an East LA thing. Looking it up, apparently they’re in most states. Man, can you tell I’m a white guy from the suburbs?

#20 Is a taser not a weapon? He got what he deserved? Can’t they just remove him from the premises? Not use a weapon on him.

I was listening to Drudge one night and he had the funniest clip I’ve ever heard.

It was a police man who pulled over some lady in Florida who was driving what I assume was her boyfriends car.

Well instead of addressing the officer she decides to get on her cell phone and call her boyfriend (Which is how the recording got made on his voicemail)

Well the cop asks her for about 5 minutes to get out of the car and simply acknowledge him and she keeps saying she has to talk to her bf (You could tell this girl had to have been imported or something)

So long story short He tasers her twice.

And quite honestly she deserved the first one for being stupid. Not sure about the second one though. He did it cause she wasn’t getting out of the car but she was frozen in fear so I think the second one was too much.

Was funny sounded as hell though.

Editor’s update: The video of that incident can be found here.

20: Yes, it is too much to ask, if you get Tasered. The point ISN’T ABOUT THE HAT. The hat would be a “metaphor”, a thing that represents another thing, which in this case would be the freedom not to have some f-wit slam 150K volts of high-frequency agony and mess up your brainstem because he doesn’t like your tone of disobedience.

Littleton says he believes the rule discriminates.
“A Jewish man — would you ask me to remove my yarmulke? A kofee? A turban? Anything like that?” Littleton said.

The usual course would be to ask the kid to leave and if he didn’t then arrest him for trespassing. Instead, the cop tried to remove the kid’s hat. As soon as the cop grabbed the kid’s hat, that became an assault. From that point on it became self defense for the kid.

The rule is discriminatory and quite probably illegal.

I would like to tazer all the neo-con evil ass holes in this forum for defending this obscene use of force. Why not, it’s using their own insane sense of justice; Government for the Governed and not for the people. It’s this same logic that got us into IRAQ, we are right and you are wrong.

#23. This is the video you’re talking about.

Look at that guy. Do you REALLY believe he was cooperating with the authorities? Do you really believe he left the meeting without causing a disturbance? Do you think that when the cops went to remove him from the meeting that he went quietly, or do you think he fought the cops?

I think he did, and got tasered for it.

If you disobey a cops orders, you take your chances. If this guy didn’t agree with the rules, he should have left and came back later with a formal protest to present to the council, and ask for a rule change.