Thread: California Police Department using taser on student
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Old 11-24-2006, 04:46 PM   #39 (permalink)
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Too bad. He should have left when ASKED to by the police the first time. No excuse. If he leaves the first time asked, no problem. He got just what he intended, he just had not planned on getting tasered.
There's no excuse for his behavior, agreed, but I think the point being made would be that there's no excuse for the officer's behavior either. If the officers have to carry him out, then so be it. But punishment isn't their job, nor is torture. I don't care if you think he "deserved" it. If he "deserves" anything then that would be laid out before him in a court of law, as would any "punishment". This is why we have a court system. If you want the police to hand out punishment on the spot without any chance to due process or argue your case, then you can go to China, or North Korea.

I don't care if the kid was yelling "Allah akbar" or "death to America"; an officer's job (especially campus security) isn't to deliver vigilante justice, or 'punishment' in any kind. They have a word for that my friend, it's tyranny.
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