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Too many details not known to know if he had a right to even be in the room. Just cause kerry is a Senator , doesn't mean that someone didn't arrange this thing for a private or invited audience. george bush is preaident but i have no right to walk into his next speach or whatever without a ticket! If he did have the right to be in the room , did he have the right to take up the whole time for his questions and commentary or do other people have the right to participate? Who decides that. If the police decided to shut him up , that is wrong. If someone truly in charge of this event said your time is up , leave , and he didn't , then the police should get him out.
On the other side , is the taser safe to be using it on people to shut someone up. The police like to say its not lethal but people have died. He could have died. If he had died , would his death have been justified for any reason seen on the tape. I think not.
I guess my opinion is that a court will hear why he is charged with some crimes and decide guilt or innocents. Another court will hear his civil suit to decide if he was abused and if he was , he will get money.
There is no doubt in my mind that if potentially lethal force is ever used by law enforcement , either a criminal or an officer must subsequently be charged with a crime. If either is found not guilty , the other needs to be charged and face a jury. Let the courts with full knowledge after gathering evidence decide the matter.
My gut feeling is that upon his refusal to leave when asked , the campus police should have formed a protective curtain between him and Kerry and the real police should have been called to deal with the guy , Predeiction , he gets charged and convicted of some minor crime to make sure the civil suit goes away. All the campus police officers rolls in this will be reviewed and the person or persons responsible for the use of the taser are let go for exercising poor judgement.
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