all i gotta say is



DON"T TASE ME BROOOO!!

That trick never works.

are people also forgetting the incident with the Iranian guy in the library or whatnot not wanting to show his id ?
these campus police fuck nuts use much to much force. tazer .. ? what the fuck, there is more than two of them and they cant take him down in an orderly fashion ? it seems like law forcement think of these tazers as toys. FUCK THEM UP THEIR GOAT ASS'

Man, thats gotta be the next hot "tee shirt" design. Mikey Evans, Chairman, Oakland County NORML

I did not forget that... in fact the incident popped into my head right away. I am on campus nearly 5 days a week and since V Tech, our University Police Department (California STATE Police Officers) received a grant and bought riot gear and M-16 riffles. The other day, they were out surveilling the quad and harrasing students merely walking by.

Also, a campus cop was handing flyers for an event one morning this past week. As everyone came by, he'd hand each student a flyer for "no cars on campus day" (an annual campus event where supposedly no one brings their car to campus to reduce polution and "honor" pedestrians, but I digress). Anyway, when one kid went right on by without taking a flyer, the cop yelled out, "hey, come back here and take one of these."

The student said something along the lines of his being late to class with no desire to take a flyer.

The cop was like, "you'd better get your ass back here and get one of these or I'm going to give you a ticket!"

Kid didn't stop, cop called for backup. I went to class and didn't see/hear what eventually happenned.

But I mean, come on... wtf would the kid get ticketed for? "Failure to stop for a flyer?" Or maybe not respecting the officer's authorit-ah? P-I-G, PIG is what I have to say about all this.

Good plan by the man though. The increased show of force has certainly curtailed campus activism.

I do have a question for all who are on the cops side in this tazering incident though. What was the nature of the threat this "irate" student posed? I mean, the tazer is a use of force against a defined threat, right? Where was the threat?

I don't understand how violence was used to combat words.

I guess Neil Magnuson of The Freedom Tour deserved to get pepper sprayed too, huh? The officers DID ask him to let go of his friend. But then again, Neil DID protest that he had in fact done nothing wrong and did not wish to be arrested. What were those officers supposed to do??? Better Pepper spray than a gun, right?

Well I guess it is true that oppression can only be complete with the acceptance and participation of the opressed.

I don't stand with the cops on tassering people, I just think in this case it was justified. He was and continued to shout so as to disrupt the meeting. Even down he kept kicking at the cops. [ remember these are campus cops on the level of rent a cop no training nothing. No one can guess how they'll react in a pinch so he should have known he was in danger. But as the spoiled brat he was trying to be he thought he could do as he liked] BUT THE SHOUTING TRYING TO HOG THE MIKE WAS DONE TO DISRUPT that meeting and the other people there had rights also, they had a right to hear what they came for. [ as one who has worked as a Union Organizer at one time I've had ass holes disrupt a meeting by continuing to shout and blow whistles. So find a trace of mercy for those that won't let other people listen to all sides so they can make a informed choice on things] If they are peacefully protesting SITTING THERE not shouting [ as in the sixties ] if a cop tassers them I think he should face charges. But if their goal seems to be to disrupt then I would hand the cops a tasser myself to use.

Its a good thing you aren't a high school teacher topcat, I can see you saying, "Oh, he was "DISRUPTIVE" well, go on, hit him with Potentially lethal Voltage". He was disruptive, so in polite society, you ask him to LEAVE, and if neccessary, escort him out of the place. I know, I do it all the time at rock shows, Kids get on the stage, and we escort them around to the back door and BOOT them back into the venue. We don't JUMP them with 10 guys, although security could do that if they wanted. And we surely do not TASE them. He was in no way a "danger" to anyone, requiring the use of ANY FORCE, it was the GESTAPO to the rescue, using FORCE instead of REASON. And the "keystone" Kops BEGAN the assault upon him, instead of quietly asking him to leave as in a peaceful manner, they physically attacked him for TALKING. And you think this is all right?

I'm totally disgusted with you attitude Top. SHOUTING is reason enough to be tasered? Asking cops or anyone questions is enough to be tasered. No wonder the KGB guy who works for HOMELAND security said our government is planning to do things to our citizens that Russia never thought of. Who's going to stop them when citizens are ALRIGHT with their fellows being PHYSICALLY assaulted for asking questions? Shit I asked a difficult question, "don't tase me Bro". Mikey Evans, Chairman, Oakland County NORML

And BTW, we weren't SITTING THERE shutting up in the sixties. But it was mostly CS gas they were using then and not the very personal taser.

BTW2: did you know that TASER stands for Thomas A. Swift Electric Rifle? Yes, that Tom Swift.

Well, let's not forget the very DISRUPTIVE Kent State demonstration which ended with, to quote Neil Young: "four dead in Ohio". Force of any kind should be the LAST resort, not the FIRST. Mikey

Yeah, one guy died in the People's Park demonstrations/riots. Guy named James Rector. He was shot standing on a rooftop. Watching.