I saw this vid a bit earlier today, after getting an email from the Politech listserv. The email said the kid was 'quietly studying.' Ok, and the police come in and taser and drag your ass away because you are quietly studying. Right. I wonder what else he was up to?
I'm a grad student, previously practiced law, and have worked in a law library. I have spent a good part of my life in academic libraries. I have yet to see the cops come up and drag someone out of their carrel for 'studying while muslim' or anything else.
He was studying, the rent-a-cops asked for his ID, he refused, they started tasering him. Also, he has dark skin. That's what you have to defend.