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To: dangus
Incidentally, I watched the video. I saw no evidence of him being beaten

According to the Pastor after they broke out both the front windows of his car and started tasing him, it caused his head to slam into the broken glass in the car door and then when they wrestled him out of the car to the ground all the while he was still being tased one of the BP Agents slammed his boot on his head into more glass that was on the ground until he was cuffed.

What I don't understand is with 8-10 of them there why couldn't they just physically pull him out of the car, why the need for a tasering? By now they all knew this guy was not a criminal.

19 posted on 05/22/2009 5:57:51 AM PDT by whatisthetruth
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To: whatisthetruth
“What I don't understand is with 8-10 of them there why couldn't they just physically pull him out of the car, why the need for a tasering? By now they all knew this guy was not a criminal.”

They know this because? What does the fact that he is a preacher have to do with anything?

26 posted on 05/22/2009 6:05:03 AM PDT by sticker
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To: whatisthetruth

I checked out the rest of the videos he has on google. I’ll make this concession:

He was NOT at the border. Therefore, avoiding an inspection does NOT constitute suspicious behavior.

Screaming out “Nazis” (as someone else did) before making the case, or making outlandish quotes about tasers (as you did) hurts credibility, and makes this all seem like a cock-and-bull story.

As does the assertion of being “beaten.” But that’s the funny thing. If the guy was tasered multiple times, that’s brutality. In a later video, he claims to have been tasered immediately. If what he is saying is true, that is a severe civil rights issue. It’s unfortunate that what he claims happens on the driver’s side is not visible in either recording of the incident.

I understand that when something is traumatic, all sense of time and proportion are lost, but the video doesn’t seem to support his allegations of being ground into the side of the window for any period of time. He also only shows wounding from one taser shot, and there doesn’t seem much of an opportunity to hit him with several. They quickly pull him out of the car and hop on him. Do I understand correctly that if person A holds down person B while person B is tasered by person C, than person A runs a huge risk of sharing the jolt? If so, his perception of police behavior has to be very distorted (understandably).


36 posted on 05/22/2009 6:23:21 AM PDT by dangus
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