Hopeless Geek

The story that needs to be spread.

The video of it happening.

This is happening more and more in America. Police have been given a non-lethal torture device and are intent upon showing people how much pain they can inflict upon you for no reason, and you as a citizen have no real recourse against these individuals at the time of the abuse.

What the officers need to know is very simple for a case like this: once tased, you need several minutes before you can walk reasonably well again. Ordering someone to “Get up!” and using non-complience as a reason for an additional tase is clear abuse of power and of a citizen. Yes, the student handled the situation very badly, and yes he was in the wrong. I’l grant that. However, to be fair, the student was being repeatedly shocked with several thousand volts when he couldn’t obey orders, so I’d be a little upset as well. He then played to the crowd, which quite obviously upset the police officers. They wanted to move him to a controlled area as they had no idea what the crowd would do. I do understand this. I would say, however, their means sucked rather badly. Whatever their concern, the repeated torture of the person for being unable to combat the physical effects of the tase was absolutely uncalled for.

Please spread the news to those that disbelieve that tasers are a threat to the US populous. It’s just one more way for abusive cops to abuse people. Had they only a lethal weapon, this would not have happened. They would not shoot someone with a sidearm for not leaving for being unable to produce a student ID. They would have done the proper thing and simply grabbed him and thrown his ass out of the room. Now they can legally abuse him from afar, and have, and will again.

Next time, it really can be you. Listen in the video at their threats to tase anyone in the crowd that comes close. Several people demanded their names and badge numbers and received more tase threats. That’s the only response they had to the situation. Rather than control the crowd, it was to tase the victim one more time. They had absolutely no idea how to handle the situation and use the weapon against people to offset that lack of ability. It’s a horridly disgusting abuse of power that’s happening more and more often. Just search YouTube or Google Video for “taser” and see what comes up.