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In reply to the discussion: Video of UTC student arrested near evangelist goes viral, sparks controversy [View all]Igel
(35,270 posts)He didn't comply with security's instructions. Don't know what would have happened if he'd just backed up 2-3 feet.
They argued. At some point he turned, his arm raised, or took a swing at the black guard closest to him. I can't tell which. Only at that point did they try to cuff him.
If he'd let them cuff him, the rest wouldn't have happened. Things would have gone better for him.
UCLA has--had?--an area outside of Kerckhoff Hall for this, a grassy patch overlooking Bruin Walk. Some days religious fundies would be there. Some days political fundies would be there. They were mostly ignored--and when I say "mostly," I mean out of the tens of thousands of pass-bys by people at any given time most days just a few would stop to watch.
It's like with a business. Location, location, location.
Don't know that I agree with the loudspeaker. Not sure there was one--perhaps she was miked?
The nice fellow calling the fundie a "bitch" towards the end also deserves, I guess, our moral support. (?)
As for police brutality, that's from a bunch of relatively pampered kids or kids who have been polarized by media portrayals. It's a conditioned reflex. Our cat's conditioned the same way--I get out of bed, she runs and stands by the food dish in the kitchen, mewing "food! food!" Even if it's 2 am and I'm heading for the bathroom. Stimulus-response.
For brutality, "brutal" is a prerequisite. Kicks to the head and groin, dislocated arms and legs, broken fingers and pulled-out fingernails, those are brutal. This was police "inconvenience" and "police mild discomfort." At its worst, "police discomfort."