Cops tazer black man just sitting on his front pourch...

[winyanstaz]

here is the video....

WTF????

http://eclipptv.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=6838

[Orrex]

1. Hey, in the cops' defense

He knew that he was black when he decided to sit out there, so what did he expect?

[Kerrytravelers]

3. Sitting While Black: a known taser-worthy offense. And on one's own property. Did he not learn from

Professor Gates?

Un.Flippin.Believable.

[Orrex]

5. Exactly. Did he procure a license to be black?

This country has laws for a reason, dammit!

[Joanne98]

2. Why are those people laughing?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

6. Don't know.

I would presume there's some sort of relevant event happening prior to the beginning of the tape that we don't know about.

[Orrex]

4. I just noticed that some of those other videos have a decidedly rightward slant.

Weird.

[CoffeeCat]

7. We don't know the entire story here..

...but geez--the guy was sitting on his porch.

Is asking someone to cooperate a thing of the past?

It's possible that there was a warrant for this guy's arrest and they were coming to get him.
He wasn't resisting.

Frankly, I'm sick of this shit.

We're getting conditioned to expect that tasers are a first resort, not a last resort. Taser, first...then
question later.

This angers me so much I can barely breath.

I just read "Night" yesterday, and pardon me if I am a little sensitive to iterative Fascist tactics that slowly and
systematically dehumanize people.

[no_hypocrisy]

8. My first thought: they returned to visit Professor Gates?

[Gabi Hayes]

12. My first thought: when will they all be sharing a beer at the WH?

[Truth2Tell]

9. Page won't load ??? nt

[JHB]

10. Something's affecting the whole site

I didn't have any problems with the link about 2 hours ago, but right now even the site homepage http://eclipptv.com/ is giving me a "Oops! This link appears to be broken." message.

[Dogtown]

11. The vid wouldn't load

Unseen, I have to warn that this sounds like a RW "bait and switch." Is it possible the video was edited to exclude something that triggered the attack? Would be just like them to try to make us all outraged , then show it to be righteous. They love to be all trickery.

I know, many of them are too stupid to be that sly, but some are mental rather than stupid.

[akwapez]

13. Here's a different link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeBkuBQ_nSk

[MercutioATC]

14. If that many cops show up, it's not some random arrest.

There's more to this story.

[jesus_of_suburbia]

15. What the hell? I'd love to know the story behind this......

because it doesn't look like that poor man was posing a threat.


The taser is so abused by the cops.

[Raineyb]

16. Why do I suspect that the person filiming the incident had something to do with it?

It wouldn't surprise me to hear that he called the police with some false report to get the cops over there the way they did. The idiot and the bitch he was with was laughing while they recorded this.

:grr: