He’s right, the rule is arbitrary and taking to that level for wearing a hat is ludicrous, but he’s also a nut for getting bent out of shape over a hat.
Man who was TASERed at council meeting speaks
The man who was TASERed at last week’s Saginaw City Council meeting says he never attacked anyone.
Charles Littleton says he was only standing up for his rights — rights he says society continues to lose every day.
That is what got 22-year-old Littleton in trouble. He didn’t obey a rule inside Saginaw City Council chambers. That rule is that all men must remove their hats.
“It means more than just a hat,” Littleton said. “It’s like my crown. It’s like asking a king to remove his crown.”
UPDATE 1: In one of the comments, BryanP pointed to a fascinating article by a Texas cop who has a unique perspective on tasering.
UPDATE 2: Just ran across this even more egregious example of tasering which was apparently the result of lack of training by the police.
Arrested (and Tasered) while Seizing
The most recent report involves a Michigan man with epilepsy, who, when experiencing a seizure, apparently was unjustifiably tasered, clubbed, arrested, jailed and committed to a psychiatric facility for violent offenders — all based on non-threatening behaviors caused by a seizure.
BTW, it seems the last post on the guy in the UCLA library who got tasered has scrolled off the front page. Since it garnered an astounding number of comments, here’s the link to it to keep this all available.
#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.
if this keeps up people are going to start carrying around tasers to defend themselves against tazers, this one end well either way.
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.
The guy is right. It starts with the hats. If they can kill you for a hat, there are no limits to authority. The cops become prison guards for everyone alive. And let’s not forget that most cops are private — there’s ARMIES of men out there with batons and stunguns, using them at will.
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.
I see the classic authoritarian mindset in a lot of posts. “Is it too much to ask to follow the rules?”
I blame the last 20 years of turning elementary and high schools into f-ing military prisons. A whole generation LIKES arbitrary authority and cruelty. They think it’s cool to punch out the nonconformists. They watched their authority figures do it all the time. It’s all they have known.
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.
There was a story on here a week or so ago where a judge basically ruled against a lady who wears the veil per her religion because she wouldn’t remove it so that he could judge the truthfulness of her eyes.
I think that went way too far. I don’t agree with the whole “You have to be dressed exactly like this” type religions but if the lady was into it taking that hat off is basically the equivilent of being immoral and depending on her faith could really fuck up her psyche.
Not to mention that judging truthfulness from eyes isn’t nearly as effective as people make it out.
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.
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The guy is right. It starts with the hats. Then it’s, what? no shirt. No pants. Then hordes of nudists – all with their disgusting naughty bits dangling about. But that’s not the end, no. Then they’ll all want to take baths at council meetings. And have sex with little farm animals. Little farm animals, for Godsake. Get in here, Noname. And that will lead to communism, mark my words. Communism and fornication by evil Clinton clones. And then catastrophic global Internet wars. Ah, but the strawberries! That’s… that’s where I had them. They laughed and made jokes, but I proved beyond a shadow of a doubt, and with geometric logic, that a duplicate key to the wardroom icebox did exist.
RBG
Apologies to The Caine Mutiny.
#23. This is the video you’re talking about.
IF the picture is the guy, he should be tazered just for looking like a Gansta. That’s reason enough.
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.
#32 an #33 that’s wut is called racial profileing, cuz he wans to dress in a style extremely prevalent among Black Males, he’s a criminal? Im blak an I dress similar so I am automatically resisting arrest? It’s shit like that, which results in kids goin to jail fa racial profileing. I mean my lil bro cant walk down the street without gettin stopped by the police just cuz he’s 13, black, an his pants hang slightly lowa den most peoples.