Kevin Sullivan

Tasergate

Posted by Kevin Sullivan under Uncategorized

Melissa McEwan asks the question–at what point should John Kerry have intervened in the tasering of a questioner during his speech?

Was that auditorium so huge that Kerry couldn’t grasp what was happening? I mean, you can see the edge of the stage in the video clip.

If Meyer was being annoyingly, undeterrably disruptive (which, given the scattered applause that erupts as he’s detained, he likely was), it’s understandable that the police would attempt to remove him. But when they start threatening to employ weaponry against him, and certainly when they do and the kid starts yowling in pain, that’s when it’s time to intervene. If those cops had been kicking the *beep!* out of him, I can’t imagine everyone would have stood idly by.

(Cross posted at RCBlogs)