[Igottago]

Originally Posted by moon

Thanks for labeling me a bigot, but I have spent the past 18 months working without trouble in the Middle East, have made numerous middle eastern friends, travelled with many Arab people on planes so the whole Arabs are terrorist things has kind of warn off on me.

The main focus of my view that he deserved it is the fact that he acted like a jerk when asked to do a perfectly normal and reasonalbe action.

If he felt that he was being targeted then show the ID and complain after. If he had a legitimate reason to be there and was doing nothing wrong then by complying he illustrates the wrongness of the police targeting him. Instead he showed what a jackass he is and what he thinks of respecting the law and the cops.

Maybe they didn't need to taser him five times as you say when on the ground but they wouldn't have needed to taser him at all if he had just obeyed the law and shown them his ID.

I still don't get how you can justify that level of force. Okay, i'll give you the point that he should've just showed his ID. But he didn't. So that means the next logical step for the police is to restrain him and taser the crap out of him for a while? The punishment didn't fit the crime, period. Being a "jackass" as you put it, shouldn't be grounds for being subjected to excessive force like that.