Reply #15: Do you really think you would have behaved differently? [View All]

[flying_monkeys]

Imagine you are at your school's library, and you are reading some study needed for a test next week. You hear shouts, commotion, maybe swear words - - you look up, and see a student arguing with the Campus Cops. He gets tasered, goes down, you stand up and peer over your partition to see what is happening. Screams fill the air, the Campus cops are shouting STAND UP repeatedly and the student is writhing. He doesn't get up. The cops get angrier - - and you move closer - - and you witness the student receive another jolt of electricity and your brain stumbles - - because *this* is not anything you ever expected to see in your school's Library, a student screaming and writhing - - and you press closer, trying to understand WTF is happening, and the cops are yelling and the student is screaming and you don't know why he is there or what they are doing but he is in pain - - and the cops jolt him again - - and now you say, "Hey!" and now you wonder what is in front of you but the cops are making threats and your paper is still un-read and maybe they (the cops) know what they are doing but that screaming is getting to you - - and you are 19 years old.....


I won't condemn the kids for not intervening.


It was a non-sensical event taking place in real time in front of them, and they couldn't process the entire picture. In reality, if any had gone to confront, there is no question in my mind that student would also have been tasered and arrested - - and taking on the Police has had 30 years to lay fallow so it wouldn't be in their heads, kwim?


I think they did good for getting video and asking for badge numbers.... Maybe this event will electrify the students across America like Kent State did in the 70s....