How would you have handled that student at the Kerry meeting?

Question

Not knowing what you know now, but just what you would have known at the time, what would you have done?

Answer 1

You need to look at the whole situation. He wasn't just running over on time, you can see him starting to get animated before police intervened.

The student has several opportunities to call it quits, but he didn't. He was told to leave, he didn't. The officers tried escorting him quietly, he broke thier grip and ran towards the stage. At this point, he is loud and disruptive. That is disorderly conduct, and is illegal. The officers now try to actively escorty him out. At this point, even though he is disorderly, the officers only want him to leave. He refuses. If he leaves, the situation is over.

This is the third time he was told to leave and escalated the situation. The officers now become active in escorting him out, but you see him resisting thier efforts. Now, not only do we have a disorderly conduct, we have resisting an officer. But still, the officers only want him removed. All he has to to was comply, and the request was more than reasonable.

Kerry had an obligation to everyone who attended, not just him.

Officers are trained to handle a situation as quicklly as possible. Only after he became disorderly and resisted did they taze him. Good job.

Answer 2

If I were one of the police officers, I would have done whatever was necessary to get the student out of there.

If I were Mr. Kerry, I would not have ignored the situation. I would have stated that there is nothing to discuss and leave it at that.

Answer 3

There is little else one could do. Once he was asked to cease and refused, everything else that happened was his fault. He could have cooperated at any point and ended the application of force or he could continue to resist and cause the police to employ higher and higher levels of force.

People don't seem to realize how dangerous it is for a police officer to wrestle with a suspect. Police can easily be injured or the suspect could be or the policeman's weapons could be taken and used against others etc. We, as a society, have a responsibility to cooperate with the police. The escalation, in this case, was entirely the fault of the suspect.

When the police order you to do something, whether it is showing him your ID or telling you to leave, you are now in the position to decide how much force you want used against you until you comply.

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Answer 4

I think I would have let him keep speaking until he got some kind of an answer from Mr. Kerry. The people have a right to know.
With that said they had about 6 officers there holding him down and the taser wasn't necessary.

Answer 5

First of all, I wouldn't of just ran up and put my hands on him, I would of asked him to leave. Kerry in the background repeatedly said "it's alright, let me answer him" so he clearly wanted to give the guy an answer. Excessive force was clearly used here.

Answer 6

The kid was obnoxious AND should have complied

having said that,
he was also subdued and on the floor with three police holding him down when he was tasered
so
i think it was excessive
what? they tasered him because he kept talking?
talking when others don't want to hear it is now an offense punishable by electric shock? Police now have the right to dish out the punishment too?

Answer 7

simply let him ask his question, and let kerry answer it. No need for cops in that situation. It only took him a minute or so to ask his question.

Answer 8

Subdued him and sent him on his way. The use of the taser is excessive and an example of police brutality.

Answer 9

i damn sure wouldnt have tazered him if i were the cops. i would have escorted him out only because he was disturbing the peace and that would be that.