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Originally Posted by Elphaba
Keith Olbermann has interviewed the student's attorney (surprise).
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I'd just like to say that I laughed my ass off when the attorney said he lives in New York, but works in LA, and that he "commutes".
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Originally Posted by jorgelito
The campus police certainly have their hands full, not to mention the serial rapist and serial killer we had a few years back.
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First of all, a police force that is "very busy" should be
more diligent, not
more physical. The biggest string of rapes and murders doesn't give them automatic rights to excessive uses of force in dealing with individuals. It gives them a greater need and responsibility to be more observant, more cautious, and more prepared. None of those qualities factor into tasing an unarmed, passive resistor.
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By the way, there were 3 cops (blaqck, hisanic and Asian). Charges of racism are patently ridiculous here.
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You can't disregard the notion of racial profiling just because 3 of the police officers are black, Asian, and hispanic... when the suspect is middle-eastern. People of all races in America have taken to the irrational fear and suspicion of people who look even remotely middle-eastern, not just the white folks.
I'm not suggesting it was racially motivated, but if they picked him out of all the students around him, and he did in fact ask that they check a few more people so he wouldn't feel singled out, then I have to wonder if he was, in fact, intentionally profiled.