[Krankor]

I gotta side with the cops on this. It’s not right, but the cops may have saved his life as well as a few others.

[I see my hands]

"I gotta side with the cops on this."

Forget the cops.. now side with somebody.

[cherry]

bending over backwards to explain the unexplainable....what would have happened if this was a bama person at a McCain rally?....troops would be called in to protect the one lone protester.......

[nathanbedford]

The rights of political free speech, or any free speech for that matter, cannot depend on the subjective reaction of the listener. Speech, by definition, needs to be protected only when it is offensive. Inoffensive speech needs no protection either from society or from the government. If you set up the test that opponents of that speech can invoke the police power and silence it merely by causing a commotion, you have just eliminated all free speech.

[cricket]

They did not do this to 'save his life'. If that was necessary; they did it to save their own. Obviously, he was not drunk or disorderly or they would not have told him to leave; they would have just picked him up. . .or not 'roughed him up' as the case may be.

It was a 'peaceful night'; or seems so; without Media reporting the downside.

[nkycincinnatikid]

“gotta side with the cops on this”

If only the Hitler had thought of that.
He could have put the jews into camps before Crystalnacht for their own protection.

[MrPiper]

I gotta side with the cops on this. It’s not right, but the cops may have saved his life as well as a few others

Unfortunately, I agree, you have the freedom of speech up to the point you yell fire in a movie theater. People will get hurt. This guy would have been assaulted at the least. Welcome to "The New World Order", also known as TEOTWAWKI.

Anyone disagrees, please wear a T-shirt with a racist word on it to a ball game. Its your right, but your either stupid, or looking for a fight.

[Eagles6]

"I gotta side with the cops on this. It’s not right, but the cops may have saved his life as well as a few others."

You may be right but that's appeasement and it never works. Committing wrong acts and sacrificing others to stave off a coming confrontation with evil is a prescription for disaster.