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Had he simply obeyed the rules that everyone else has to follow...and discarded his can of soda, none...NONE....NONE...of this would’ve happened.

You're still missing the point that the severity of the punishment far outweighed the transgression. As I said before, it is troubling that so many here on FR believe that if a person doesn't lick boot then he deserves whatever punishment the cop gives them.

From the story, I gather that England misunderstood the rules regarding drinks and tried to talk to supervisors. He didn't cower, but I didn't read about any laws that he violated either.

It is not punishment. Beating by a cop is not punishment. Punishment is done by courts after trials. If a beating is done, it is done in order to subdue an unresponsive suspect. If it is not necessary to be done, then the police officer is either disciplined by internal affairs or the department is sued by the aggrieved party.

But neither side gets to conduct a trial at the event.

I swear to God, some of you dumbasses are a big part of what is wrong with this country.

If this idiot [with a bad case of little man’s disease] had obeyed the rules, not gotten an attitude and then disobeyed the police. None of this would have occured.

In this case...

I refuse to entertain the moronic notion that TSA screeners unfairly singled him out.
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I refuse to entertain the notion that the Police did anything inapproriate.

No cop zaps someone in a crowded airport with a ton of witnesses without a justifiable reason.

I have zero remorse for him.

Humble yourself, throw away the soda, shut your damn mouth and move along, dummy. There are more important matters at hand in an airport than whether or not your stupid ass is a noncomm in the military or what you ‘think’ about airport security proceadures.

Whether or not he got what he deserved..I cannot say, nor can anyone else on this thread...but what happened is his responsibility...and his alone.