Take a look at the video below and let me know what you think.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2WXKzDrcZc
Are you at all suprised that this happened on a college campus in America? The first thing that came to my mind was "thank God for technology like YouTube and cell phones with video footage!" If someone had told me by word of mouth that police brutality was still a problem even for the educated and schooled, I might not have believed them. The student in the video is Iranian, which for some might have no bearing on how he was treated. In my mind, brutality is never a way to address a problem, especially when the person at hand is not an immediate threat to the environment; that is, unless you consider noise-making an immediate threat.
I also thought of how immobile the surrounding students seem to be. You do hear a few of them screaming that the force being used is too much but no one really does anything else. It seems like the officers we pay only answer to their own thoughts, even if it is a skewed perspective of what it means to keep the peace.
Viva la YouTube!
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Oh my gosh. I've seen this video floating around and this guy has no room for a defense. He was asked to leave, resisted, and put up a fight.
What would you have the police to do? Tuck in the kids shirts, wipe the dirt off his bottom, and say go surf the Internet nicely with the other kids?
Whoah- thats pretty intense. It is sad that when the officers asked him to stand up, he couldn't so they just tasered him again. The are misuing their power- tasers are meant for when people are being violent, not just not cooperating.