Andrew Meyer

[Taelas]

It happens frequently on campuses, and more so with the advent of non-lethal controls like tazers, and pepper spray. There is an "escalate until arrested" protest group on almost every larger campus. While I was in school the group moved from issue to issue over time always looking for some reason to chain themselves together in the provosts office. In Minneapolis there is a perpetual protest organization who periodically trespass on certain local defense contractors premises, and mostly politely sit and wait to get arrested.

Sigh.<_<

You don't resist arrest and shout 'why am I being arrested' unless you're trying to make a scene.

Or unless you just plain do not want to be arrested. Why does there have to be an ulterior motive?

Even though it's partially his fault, I can't fault him for trying to resist when 3 or more people are suddenly dragging him away and refusing to tell him why -- even though they are campus police.

Tasering is probably less likely to do semipermanent damage then forcibly wrenching somebody's hands behind their back for cuffing, or clubbing him into submission. The guy was a jerk, just like the Best Buy guy was.

The fact that it's less violent than other submission methods does not automatically mean it's OK.

I do not see any reason to a.) remove him in the first place, or b.) taser him when he resists. It's not as if he's attacking them (and I even believe that at some point he says he'll leave if they let him get up).