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    I'd also shove a cop if I was trying to resist something like aggravated assault.

     

    It's up to the individual being arrested to make the decision whether to resist arrest or not. And it's up to any onlookers to make the decision whether to intervene to protect someone from police violence or not. There's no reason a few hundred people should be intimidated by a few fucking badges. Besides, resisting arrest shouldn't even be a crime. Whatever they're arresting a person for is enough, and things like assaulting an officer are already covered - the reason resisting arrest is a crime is to remove a person's legal right to defend him or herself from violence.

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    Police brutality is standard procedure, eh?

     

    I think it's pretty chilling to watch the police assault somebody (for asking the Senator an embarrassing question) and an entire auditorium of people basically just sit and watch. The shit these fascist goons get away with just blows me away.

     

    Someone on youtube posted these supreme court rulings:

     

    "An illegal arrest is an assault and battery. The person so attempted to be restrained of his liberty has the same right to use force in defending himself as he would in repelling any other assault and battery." State v. Robinson, 145 ME. 77, 72 ATL. 260

     

    "Citizens may resist unlawful arrest to the point of taking an arresting officer's life if necessary." Plummer v. State, 136 Ind. 306."

     

    One may come to the aid of another being unlawfully arrested, just as he may where one is being assaulted, molested, raped or kidnapped. Thus it is not an offense to liberate one from the unlawful custody of an officer, even though he may have submitted to such custody, without resistance." (Adams v. State, 121 Ga. 16, 48 S.E. 910).

     

    In the video the cop says he's being arrested for "inciting a riot," not public disturbance or assaulting an officer or anything. Since he was plainly not inciting a riot, that's unlawful arrest and he's within his rights to resist and anyone else is within their rights to assist him. You do not have to defer to the cops' authority if their actions are unlawful. Also, does anyone think he'd have been tazed if the guy on stage was some nobody? Would the cops have even been carrying tazers? They were acting in the service of power.

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    So my dad bought one of those new iMacs and when he went to transfer his music from his external hard drive the new mac said it wasn't recognized. Apparently needs to be reformatted. Tried it on the old PC and it won't recognize on there either now. Any way to salvage the files somehow? If so how do i reformat the damn thing without wiping everything off so he can transfer it to the mac?

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    The manner of Benoit's suicide sounds gruesome if the description Dave talked about is even half accurate.

     

    Can you give the Cliff notes version?

    It was slow, painful and likely that Benoit intended it to be that way. He would have been very aware of what was happening.

    He'd have been pulled up and not dropped down, the chances are he would have died from the blood pressure in his brain causing an embollism/aneurysm than a "clean" death by hanging involving the separation of the spinal cord/vertebrae. I'm guessing they found him with his eyes completely blood shot with bruising from the haemmorages. He'd have likely taken at least 2-3 minutes to pass from complete consciousness, another 5 to have his vital functions shut down and cause bowel release.

     

    This thread is getting beyond depressing >:

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    I'm perplexed as to why you guys believe that these kids were in any way threatening. The cop was holding a thirteen your old kid on the ground by his fucking throat! Even despite the fact they were trying to reason with him in a calm and rational manner. This kind of police brutality is in no way justifiable and I hope legal action is taken against this cop.

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