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11/02/09
[nymag.com]
What an absurd person. #alsharpton
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True enough.
#Innumerate Lit Major #alsharpton
10/31/09
And Mrs. Ex-Sharpton is an elephant who delivered late, very late.
#Innumerate Lit Major #alsharpton
10/31/09
The Post story I read a minute ago, which now seems to have disappeared, plainly said that the daughter had been arrested 10 times since 1984. It also said the arrests had been voluntary, which is kind of an important detail.
#Department of close reading #alsharpton
10/31/09
Oh, never mind. I also think we may be talking at cross-revisions.
#Apology. #alsharpton
10/31/09
She is also the production events director and a "working actress," according to her Twitter page. She told Amsterdam News in a 2008 interview that following in her father’s footsteps was, "not something I really planned on doing, but I know it’s something I have to do. Being his eldest daughter, it’s my responsibility." And she has followed in his footsteps — Sharpton has reportedly been willingly arrested during protests over 10 times since 1984.
[www.nypost.com]
They're rewriting the item now because the language in it was so skewed. So, you're right, I was wrong - twice - but you were also an asshole! Don't be jealous of our bong. We don't mean to Bogart, BRAH.
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Sadly, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree in this case. #alsharpton
11/02/09
On a different note, I rememeber on Cleveland's college radio station WCSB 89.3PM, there used to be a guy named "Mitch-Man" who did a show called "Under the Influence", that had played "A Child's Garden of Grass", Frank Zappa, Cheech and Chong, along with what he called "Marajuana Montage" that consisted of har to find music and musings.
God, I miss that show. I've been ebaying and shopping around for that material since. #alsharpton
10/23/09
Ask me why I am arresting you. Tazer.
Tell me you "know your rights." Tazer.
Kick me. Tazer.
Call me "bro." Double tazer. #tasers
10/23/09
10/23/09
My buddy who is a sheriff told me that most of these cases you see on youtube of people being tazed to get them out of a car, etc should be considered unlawful, despite how many departments review the case and call the shot "within departmental guidelines."
This is just a shitty slippery slope to a police state. Yeah, don't fight or resist cops, no duh. But how many times have we seen non-violent people zapped?
Ban them. I'd rather see a few drugged out knife wielders get shot than get zapped myself because I dared to question a cop. #tasers
10/23/09
There are remedies to inappropriate zapping which include a Civilian Complaint Board, lawsuits, and media exposure of the incident (if that's available).
I'd like to see more zapping and less shooting, truly. #tasers
10/23/09
[www.taser.com]
Fucking drugged up knife wielders! Let's taze 'em up real gooood and keep our streets safe! #tasers
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I hear you. However (call me a right wing nut-job) I'd rather a few children and kitties (and I LOOOVE kitties) get caught in the crossfire than live in a country where merely questioning authority gets you zapped and taken off to jail.
I am painting with a broad brush here; I know that we don't see every Tazer shot that occurs posted onto YouTube, but I do believe that enough abuse happens, even if from a minority of cops, that we should remove them from use. The fact that the screwed up ones we DO see are generally called lawful after internal review scares the crap out of me.
I know, its funny, I am basically saying "we can trust cops with lethal firearms but not with a shocking device", but that IS what I am saying.
Giving authorities an "instant compliance" tool in general leads to a horrible "my word is law because I can now reduce you to a quivering heap at will" attitude in some cops, an attitude that we should eliminate before it is too late and it becomes institutionalized. #tasers
10/23/09
Questioning a cop like "Why am I being arrested?" should not result in a zap - they're supposed to tell you in pretty short order, and 99% of the time it's obvious why you're being arrested. That's not what happened here.
I see the potential for taser abuse, and I think the law in this area will change, because it really is an assault weapon. #tasers
10/23/09
good thing their short-term memories only span the past five hours anyhow.... #tasers
10/23/09
This message brought to you by the Hot Cops. #tasers
10/23/09
The lesson? Cops suck (until you really need one) and don't ever, ever assault a police officer.
I may not think highly of the police, but I've never had a bad run-in with the cops, I think this is because I keep my liberal vitriol to myself. If I see cops doing something problematic, I make a note of the names on their badges or the plate number on their cruiser and file it away should I need the info later. What don't I do? Get into a screaming confrontation, because it's a virtual guarantee that your ass will get pounded, and you'll go to jail anyway. #tasers
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Lady?! Using the term rather loosely, ain't we? #tasers
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2: No one has a right to assault police officers.
3: Tasering causes (severe) temporary discomfort. By contrast, grabbing a suspect, restraining them, and sitting on them to cuff them can result in much more severe injuries to both the cop and the arrested person. #tasers
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Sure, tell that to Robert Dziekanski, the "discomfort" was temporary 'cause he's dead now.
[en.wikipedia.org]
10/23/09
1. Wrong.
"Citizens may resist unlawful arrest to the point of taking an arresting officer's life if necessary." Plummer v. State, 136 Ind. 306.
2. Wrong again.
The Supreme Court of the United States in the case: John Bad Elk v. U.S., 177 U.S. 529 "Where the officer is killed in the course of the disorder which naturally accompanies an attempted arrest that is resisted, the law looks with very different eyes upon the transaction, when the officer had the right to make the arrest, from what it does if the officer had no right. What may be murder in the first case might be nothing more than manslaughter in the other, or the facts might show that no offense had been committed."
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There were 5 cops on a single petite woman. If they can't physically subdue her without using a taser, they need to immediately be removed from active duty, start working out until they are able to do so and then they can come back to do their job.
Sorry, but you're all wrong here.
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There IS real police brutality out there, some of it on film. This is a remarkably poor example. #tasers
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