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I can't hear any audible tasing sound anywhere in the film.
Uhm no, he is sitting at the top of the stairs. The other people in the other room are oblivious to them.Gelsamel Epsilon said:You say it shows him up the top of the starts with no one looking. 3.08 on is where he is tazed/has a fit and screams and where he is clearly in cuffs, and from then on he is dragged down the stairs where people crowd around them.
Nope, go back and look at that clip again. 3:08 at the top of the stairs. Nothing, Calm. No one near them. Two officers.Gelsamel Epsilon said:I'm pretty sure everyone was crowded around them gasping when they tased him with a few people saying "Stop it" and "That's cruel" etc. And hence there was a person filming it on his camera.
chroot said:You can't hear a stun gun when it's actually pressed against a person and discharged. You can only hear it when it's discharged into the air, usually as a threat.
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1. There is a tazing at 3:13, when you hear three screams from the student, identical to the three screams emitted after each of the first two tazings. Again, listen to the screams (00:30 to 00:33, 1:45 to 1:48 and 3:13 to 3:16) and tell me that the third time was just the guy yelling.Evo said:Go to 3.08 minutes into the video, you'll see what I mean. Just watch from that point. NO TAZING.
No, when you look at the footage starting at 3:08, you see a bunch of people milling about a room and one person at the top of the stairs surrounded by 2 police officers. They grab his arms and he bucks up.Gelsamel Epsilon said:@Evo
Thats because the guy is filming it from behind one of those cubicles. it's to the side of the crowd of people. Look at 1:56 there is a crowd, then from there is moves to the side to get a better view. You can only see 2 cops and a student leaning on the cubicle but sure enough next to the student on the cubicle there is a crowd. Once they start to pull him down the stairs the cameraman moves in behind the crowd and follows them and the crowd down.
Honestly, I can't tell what he's going on about.Gokul43201 said:1. There is a tazing at 3:13, when you hear three screams from the student, identical to the three screams emitted after each of the first two tazings. Again, listen to the screams (00:30 to 00:33, 1:45 to 1:48 and 3:13 to 3:16) and tell me that the third time was just the guy yelling.
Since I've never commented on this, you're making this up.2. Even if the above were just a remarkable coincidence or that the guy was just incredibly skilled, there's still the matter of the second tazing (at 1:45), where it appears that the guy is already handcuffed. You claim he isn't. Can you tell me at what instants in this video you can see the guy's free hands?
Look again.3. You said the film shows him kicking as he's being taken down the stairs. I don't see that.
I have never said how many times the guy might have been shocked. Please quote the post numbers where I said so.4. Your insistence that there were no more than two tazings essentially contradicts the admission of the police that there were multiple tazings.
I see two red circles.Gelsamel Epsilon said:http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/7575/grabbinglm3.png
Here is a pic I took. I highlighted red to show that the policemen are clearly grabbing the boy already.
After that he does his little jump and then the coppers start to take him down as the -crowd- (off screen to the right) falls in behind them.
Evo said:I see two red circles.
Evo said:What I want to know is how much money this freeking idiot is costing all of us. He NEEDED his student ID. He's a MORON.
What the hell was he thinking? Or was he intentionally trying to cause trouble?
He has no defense. He is wrong., End of argument. If the campus police want harsher methods to deal with students as a result of this, blame this idiot.
They are there to uphold restrictions, restrictions everyone has agreed to, like providing a valid ID.Gelsamel Epsilon said:He is stupid for forgetting his ID. Maybe he is a moron, maybe he is wrong about the abuse of power. But that isn't the point. As I said before being a moron doesn't suddenly enable the police to use harsher methods.
What? Did you not understand the point I was making?Evo said:Honestly, I can't tell what he's going on about.
Since I've never commented on this, you're making this up.
Evo said:I saw him handcuffed at the end, show me where he was zapped after being handcuffed. I watched the video.
Evo said:NO TASER. Not once after he was handcuffed.
Evo said:The video clearly shows that is not true.
This is ridiculous but I just did...for probably the 27th time. There's nothing showing the guy kicking as he is being taken down the stairs. There only footage showing the guy is at the top of the stairs.Look again.
You've clearly said that he wasn't shocked after being cuffed (see quoted posts above). There are only two zappings before the 3:08 incident where you agree he is in cuffs. Therefore, by your own words, there are no more than two zappings in all.I have never said how many times the guy might have been shocked. Please quote the post numbers where I said so.
That's not true, you see him bordered on each side by people, then they grab his arms and he kicks back, his legs going up.Gokul43201 said:There's nothing showing the guy kicking as he is being taken down the stairs. There only footage showing the guy is at the top of the stairs.
I've never counted them, but if there were only two that can be counted, then I guess there are only two.You've clearly said that he wasn't shocked after being cuffed (see quoted posts above). There are only two zappings before the 3:08 incident where you agree he is in cuffs. Therefore, by your own words, there are no more than two zappings in all.
You're the one that seems to have a problem, not me. I can see the video, I can count the instances. I don't hate the people in charge, I look at all the details. In this instance, the kid was at fault. I don't know what the established protocol is, do you? Maybe they were within the guidelines, maybe they weren't. Are you an authority on this?This is getting quite ridiculous at this point. It seems to be impossible to have a logical discussion, and I've had about enough accusations for one night. I'm done with this thread.
I think everyone questions the multiple tasings, even though they were extremely mild.Gelsamel Epsilon said:I don't think anyone is arguing that the boy should be let off. That he wasn't doing anything wrong, and didn't deserve to be enforced.
The question isn't on whether punishing him was wrong, rather whether the method employed was wrong. He definitely broke the rules. He definitely had to be removed. And tasering him first off was fine, but the multiple tasings were perhaps a bit of bad judgement on the policemen's part.
Do you believe that if they had given him more "knocks" in response to his verbal abuse, they would have been justified?beckjorddotcom said:I notice in many such over use of force situations, that the subject
has cursed the cops and resisted. I once watched a white hippie hobo
get hancuffed and footcuffed and thrown in teh back seat of a cop car
all while cursing and swearing and using the f-word over and over, whcih made them want to give him more knocks.
0rthodontist said:Do you believe that if they had given him more "knocks" in response to his verbal abuse, they would have been justified?
No, that's not quite my point. I am talking about the situation which Beckjord introduced, with the hippie in the police car. I am saying that verbal abuse should not influence the use of force by police officers.Gelsamel Epsilon said:Exactly. They got the job done in X zaps. They could have done it in X+1 but X seems to be suffice. The question is there a way that X-1 could be suffice?
0rthodontist said:No, that's not quite my point. I am talking about the situation which Beckjord introduced, with the hippie in the police car. I am saying that verbal abuse should not influence the use of force by police officers.