Please tell me they are being legally charged...
2007-09-21 13:24:08 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
no they havent becuase they acted within the specifications of the law and the departments guidlines.
Please tell me why you think someone should be able to resist arrest with no ill effects for their actions.
Why should the officers risk being hurt so that some idiot who is resisting arrest doent take a little shock. They were within their rights to do what they did unlike the student who was not within his right to resist arrest
Free speach doesnt allow you to do whatever you want. If you went into a church and interupted the whole service and were asked to be quite or leave and you didnt you would be trespassing at that point. The Place where the debate was being held and the people who were holding the debate asked him to stop then asked him to be removed. Freedom of speach doesnt allow you to hijack a meeting.
2007-09-21 13:32:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
A person's First Amendment rights do not allow someone to violate others' rights. This has been long established.
I have not seen the entire tape - just a small portion but I ask what should they be charged with? Those of you asking for charges, explain why. And take into consideration how "convictable" would they be? Could a prosecutor convince 12 peers that the officers committed a crime? Keep in mind you are in a conservative state. For that matter, in a civil trial, could an attorney convince 75% of a jury that the guy was injured? Did he get what he planned for? Did he put himself into peril with his actions? From what I have seen, he was given ample opportunity to cooperate but CHOSE to resist.
Can you convince just one person who has not already set an opinion that the officers did wrong - criminally or civilly.
2007-09-21 14:57:39 · answer #2 · answered by XPig 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well two of those officers have been put on administative leave as for the other officers so far we haven't heard what is going on with them.
But I hope that student sues the living hell out of the school and the officers who I mean come on really violated his first Amendement rights this was clearly over the top and I would make the school and those cops pay dearly for what they did if that was me for sure.
2007-09-21 13:34:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
If they acted within the rules and specifications for their department regarding the use of non-lethal weapons (tasers, pepper spray, etc), there will be no charges. Without knowing what specifically these rules say, it is impossible to know if there will be any charges filed.
2007-09-21 13:43:07 · answer #4 · answered by msi_cord 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
they should be but they probably won't even get a slap on the wrist. i think we need more protests in this country to remind the police who they work for and what their job is. all they do is harass and abuse people who are easy marks, probably because real criminals scare them. they spend more time harassing people for not wearing seatbelts than anything else in NEPA yet it's legal to ride a motorcycle without a helmet.
2007-09-21 14:01:49 · answer #5 · answered by che_lives 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
For what, doing their duty in dealing with a malcontent who deliberately set up the whole stunt for the cameras, who wouldn't have pushed it to that point if their wasn't a camera there? Give them medals.
If that idiot kid had tried that foolishness in the old Soviet Union he would never have been seen again. If he tried it in China he would be in a prison work factory for the rest of his life.
2007-09-21 13:34:43 · answer #6 · answered by Fred C 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
This student was being unruly, resisted the officers who tried to remove him; they used the simplest method to remove him from the ruckus he was causing among others who had come to hear Kerry speak. They were doing their job.
2007-09-21 13:33:59 · answer #7 · answered by geegee 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
I'd like to at least buy them lunch.
If they had tasered Kerry, I would have bought them dinner.
2007-09-21 13:36:32 · answer #8 · answered by Dee B 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
No are not being charged with anything. They were doing their job and the kids was stupid to expect anything less than what he got.
2007-09-21 13:28:51 · answer #9 · answered by midnitrondavu 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Big brother isn't going to charge his henchmen for doing his dirty work,get real.And get used to this kind of response to abuse of power.Apparently Americans are willing to surrender their very souls along with their rights to this fascist dictatorship in the making.
2007-09-21 14:13:49 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋