arrested for anti-obama sign

[Homeslice]

The video was cropped and edited (conveniently, I might add)

[Captain Morgan]

Originally Posted by the chi

I like how the news articles are all over the fact that he had a weapon, but we dont once see it, or him brandishing it in the video, yet they took him down supposedly because of said gun...

I thought so, too, but, as Homeslice points out...

Originally Posted by Homeslice

The video was cropped and edited (conveniently, I might add)

I could see that the video had been cut and restarted at a couple different points and wonder if that's where the gun was brought up. If he did indeed have a gun, I still think they went about it all wrong. Tell the man that he can either take the gun back out to his vehicle and come back in with his sign, or that he must leave simply because of the gun.

However, I'd also like to point out that this seems to have started simply because of his sign and his viewpoint and that the gun seems to be an afterthought, or more likely a "reasonable cause" to get the guy out of there.

[pauldun170]

Lets recap.

There is a fair.
Organizers pay to hold the fair.
Vendors pay to participate in the fair.
People pay to get into the fair.
Organizers pay for security for fair.
Man creates a disturbance at fair.
Security ask man to leave.
Man does not leave.
Security subdue man and police escort him out of fair.

interwebz section a- "He has free speech!!! Obama is taking away poor whiteman (WHO IS TROOP WE DOES SUPPORTZ) constitutional free speech rights!!!

interwebz section b- "He has right to bare arms!!! Obama is taking away poor whiteman (WHO IS TROOP WE DOES SUPPORTZ) constitutional gun rights!!!

interwebz section c- "Fat people trying to eat old man!!! How dare fat man not do the humane thing and Taze old man. "
interwebz sub section c.1 "Yeah fat man rent cop using body weight to control old man is evil...right thing to do is electrify"
interwebz sub section c.2 - "I hate fat people..I kick fat people ass if I was there "

interwebz section d - "Video was obviously edited therefore we should take what everyone says with a grain of salt. However what I believe happened is (insert scenario here) and the people who shot the video are obviously manipulating everyone to hide this FACT "

interwebz section e - "Is old man military and therefore must be forgiven for whatever they do"

interwebz section f - "is STATE LAND and is FREEDOM of SPEECH and is CONSTITUTIONAL and is CONSPIRACY and is MIXED CAPS and is SIGN is i didn't REALLY READ anything factual ABOUT THE EVENT I just LIKE TO get riled up by interwebz AND USE THE CAPS LOCK key to hide the fact that I am a IGNORANT DUMBSHIT"

[OneSickPsycho]

That pretty much sums it up... though I would add that the internet is full of angry people, looking for things to be angry about... and this thread proves it.

[Homeslice]

Originally Posted by pauldun170

Lets interwebz section e - "Is old man military and therefore must be forgiven for whatever they do"

Yep

"He's a war veteran!"

And that is relevant how?

[101lifts2]

Sounds like most of the crowd agreed with him.

[Trip]

Awesome, we should get this dude to fight crazy old beard man and it would be internetz super win.

[Digifox]

You gotta be fucking kidding me!
Thats bullshit, And I'm with avatard on this i would have been arrested as well.
I don't care if he was shouting you don't treat a crippled old man like that.
If they wanted to cuff him, they could have atleast been nice about it and put him on that table and not sat his fat ass on the poor old guy....

Thinkin' for next years comfest(community feast which is public) I'll be out there like the old man....though I'll probably get shot since we actually have cops on duty

[Avatard]

Originally Posted by Homeslice

Yep

"He's a war veteran!"

And that is relevant how?

[Refa]

R-E-S-P-E-C-T

Just a little bit.

[/Refa]

[pauldun170]

LOL

Are you guys even watching the same video?
No one was slammed to the ground.
They weren't overly rough with him. They start forcibly escorting after who knows how long talking to the guy. They have him under the arm pits and start walking him out. The guy resists, screaming...going limp in the legs.
The guy wraps his legs around the security guards legs continuing to scream at the top of his lungs. The guy starts goig ahhhh!! ahhh!!! as if he is in pain and they let off and lower him to the ground. They made the decision to just secure the guy. The big guy doesn't slam him. He puts body weight on him while his partner in the back is either trying to get his hands to cough him or finds the gun (at this point when he is on the the ground would probably have been the point when they found that the screaming crazy guy has a gun on him). Either way at 4:40 you see a guard walk away with the gun.

Considering the situation I think the guards handled it well.