National Guard Iraq Veteran Beated, Tasered Three Times For Crime of Giving Lip To A Fat Cop

I'm adding the "gave lip" part. The soldier kinda alludes to it; given that they hasseled him to the point where he missed his flight -- a vacaton in Vegas before he rolled out to Iraq again -- I can see how he might be a little testy about the TSA and Vegas cops.

But testiness, and even the f-bomb, are not in fact crimes.

The cops seem to have acted here not to protect the peace but to simply to assert their own personal authority over anyone they thought wasn't paying them enough fealty. Watch for yourself, and especially check out the soldier's calm voice as he repeatedly calls the cop "sir" in the second clip.

Acting as professional peace officers or like fat-assed eighth grade bullies armed with weapons who've decided they're going to show they own the cafetorium? You be the judge.

Thanks to James, cribbed from Free Republic.

posted by Ace at 02:49 AM

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