1) The security check wasn't random, it was routine. Apparently they check ID every night at 11 (obviously they don't get to everyone right at 11 on the dot).
2) He was not tasered for failing to provide ID, he was tasered for not leaving when asked and for resisting arrest, both completely valid reasons for tasering someone. I'm generally pretty big on civil liberties, but I recognize that this guy was trying to stir up trouble (it may even have been his intent when he walked into the library) and was clearly trying to resist arrest.
I think the cops did some really wrong things there, like threatening the other students and failing to provide their names and badge numbers, but the tasering itself was not the extreme breech of civil rights that everyone is making it out to be.
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1) The security check wasn't random, it was routine. Apparently they check ID every night at 11 (obviously they don't get to everyone right at 11 on the dot).
2) He was not tasered for failing to provide ID, he was tasered for not leaving when asked and for resisting arrest, both completely valid reasons for tasering someone. I'm generally pretty big on civil liberties, but I recognize that this guy was trying to stir up trouble (it may even have been his intent when he walked into the library) and was clearly trying to resist arrest.
I think the cops did some really wrong things there, like threatening the other students and failing to provide their names and badge numbers, but the tasering itself was not the extreme breech of civil rights that everyone is making it out to be.
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