Police Use Stun Gun on Occupy DC Protester
- Posted on January 29, 2012 at 11:17pm by
Christopher Santarelli
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(The Blaze/AP) U.S. Park Police say an officer used an electronic stun gun on an Occupy DC participant who was tearing down fliers warning protesters about the ban on camping in McPherson Square.
Police said the unidentified man was charged with disorderly conduct. The arrest occurred shortly after noon Sunday.
Sgt. David Schlosser, a park police spokesman, says the man ripped up the flier when he received it and then began tearing it off other tents. Schlosser says the man became “aggressive and confrontational” when police tried to arrest him and the stun gun was used. He says there will be an internal inquiry, as there is after any use of force.
An Occupy DC participant told The Washington Post that the use of the stun gun was unnecessary. A post on OccupyDC.org reads:
“Sunday morning, U.S. Park Police restrained a participant in the occupation of McPherson Square who was behaving non-violently, fired taser darts into his back, and continuously tased him while he lay face down and handcuffed.”
CNN reports that Occupy DC demonstrators had spent Sunday afternoon discussing how to respond to a call by the National Park Service to stop camping overnight at sites a few blocks from the White House. The Park Police had told Occupy DC protesters Friday that they must stop camping at McPherson Square and Freedom Plaza by noon Monday or risk arrest.
The end of the post at OccupyDC.org reporting the stun gun incident reads:
“We invite anyone who is able to come to McPherson Square (at 15th and K Streets NW) starting tomorrow at noon and stretching into the evening to help defend the occupation. A General Assembly is held daily at 6pm.”
Video of the arrest (WARNING: Strong Language/Violence)
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Comments (198)
JackSprat
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 8:07pmI have seen the future and it is now! Our society and our Republic are at a tipping point. The occupiers will never be happy with whatever it is they want. They want to make noise, they have no moral foundations, which means that have no moral compass. They are wondering aimlessly through their almost meaningless lives and only wish to bring the rest of the country down to their level. I wonder what their parents think of them? I wonder what their grandparents think of them? My deceased ancestry are turning in their graves, they all worked hard to make this Republic the greatest nation that has ever existed on earth. It has been said that we are only one generation away from tyranny. I am looking at the horizon and things do not look good! May God have mercy on us all!!!
Report Post »Tired of Code Names
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 9:08pm@JackSprat… You nailed it on the morality point on one side. I’m guessing you will agree that their is a morality point on the other side. Our elected poiticians morals. Or the lack thereof. Good people are getting hammered from both sides. The uprising perhaps may come from Occupy, but, unlike the middle east, a bad idea will not degenerate to a worse idea. The real america is starting to wake up. I hope it’s not too late and that we have become a democracy instead of a republic. If so, welcome to being a third world country just like all the rest. Yes….even Europe.
Report Post »bulletsinthegun
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 10:04pmVery well said Jacksprat
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 10:31pmSpot on! Good luck in the coming future.
Report Post »ishka4me
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:30amwhat is funny is that someone blows a whistle, and a dozen or so little communists come running with iphones. Do they not know that iphone is one of the greatest sybol of capitalism in our time?
Report Post »CulperGang
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 12:13pmMorality? There are a lot of libertarians and independents in that crowd with plenty of morals.
Report Post »jkjk
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 2:35pmHA !!! They should at least have gloves on. Who knows what parasites or diseases that loser has.
Report Post »JackSprat
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 8:18pmCulpergang: Moral relevance is what your are insinuating, the fact of the matter is if I were an independent or a libertarian I would hate to be tainted by the types of behavior on display. I believe that most of the occupiers in the video clip were hard core leftists. I could be wrong, but I doubt you would care to bet me on it.
Report Post »bigfatslob
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 8:06pmPolice officerette was Bl@ ck and ODCer a Wh! te hippy type. This was in DC. The Officerette could have shot him and it wouk be….K.
Report Post »65Mustang
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 8:05pmThe lowlife got what he deserved…too bad it couldn’t have been more debilitating to his sorry liberal a**
Report Post »oriondma05
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 8:04pmDoes anyone get annoyed when they constantly are shoving cellphone cams in peoples‘ faces like they’re accomplishing somehting? Or when they are agitating a cop until the cop makes a move toward them and then they chuck up the “peace sign”??
Report Post »THXll38
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 10:30pmI get annoyed every time I look up and see a traffic camera, traffic photo vans, cameras in every building, soon cameras up my ass. Apparently, in your neocon mind, it is okay for the police state to use cameras, but it is not okay for civilians to use cameras — you are indeed a sorry bunch.
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 10:32pmOuch!
Report Post »Blackw0lf
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:27amanyone who watches any of these (clips) they all are the same thing. Do something that warrants arrest (usually just off camera) claim innocence while being uncooperative just enough to be classified as combative (notice the kicking feet) have everyone claim you were cooperating Bla bla bla. They have meeting discussing how to bring these things to a point where this happens, being arrested is part of the plan. For every one of these we see there is a 100 occurrences of where they either didn’t get the cops to bite on their taunts or they went over the line and only they had the video to prove it so it dies.
Report Post »I like most of the country I become tired of these cat and mouse games on TV every night this is seen in the aggravation demonstrated by all of those here wishing they were really being hurt and such. the problem is this we cant suspend the civil rights of one bunch without doing it for all, I believe this is the real goal of this type of group. After all look at it most of the fools in these things don’t know what they want , wish to accomplish what is the end game, they only know talking points given to them by those who claim not to be leading them.
Although I believe their is allot of overstepping bounds by police these days I believe it is a far better thing that OUR LOCAL police deal with these type of matters because the end game of this type of crap folks is government police, that means TROOPS people, and a police state!! i hope i am wrong but the signs so
whatthecrazy
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 8:04pmscore
Report Post »RightThinking1
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 8:00pmAhhh, I miss the good old days when they would have used a nightstick.
Report Post »Uh, are those “Hello Kitty” pajama bottoms that he is wearing?
gingirl67
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 8:59pmyes i think so .. but they sure were PINK SOMETHING lol i.. wow they make em big boys sizes now
Report Post »GBTVFan_Non_American_Overseas
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 10:57pmAhhhhhh lovely when the officers express their feelings through the gentle use of the old Paddy Wacker correcting OWS’s and unions attitude…….and I also noted a problem with the video, there is not background music!!!
Report Post »MadNewYorker
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 8:00pmI miss the good old days when the cop’s would of used Mr. Nightstick across his head.
Report Post »RightThinking1
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 8:19pmGreat minds think alike…
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 8:50pmYea, they called Hitler “great” too.
Why don‘t you take your fellow SS brother and teleport your NAZI asses back to Hitler’s Germany? You can lick some REAL Nazi boots then.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 9:12pmV-MAN: If you are so offended by bullies, why aren’t you upset by the tax-payer bullies, the Democrat Campaign Committee, the Occupies ??
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 9:22pmOh I am quite perturbed, Barber2. And I criticize them equally.
I don’t lump all the occupy protestors into one large bunch and judge them as such, though. There’s some real patriots in there who want to End the Fed and support Ron Paul, a real Constitutionalist.
I have come as close to hating Obama’s actions as possible without actually hating the man himself. My prerogative.
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 9:23pmYou do know that I’m a Tea Party member, right?
Report Post »barber2
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 10:00pmV-Man: Tea Party member ? Do not believe you. You sound more like a Jason Levin Lefty Troll or a Far right/ anarchist .
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 10:34pmI actually know someone who was held by the Nazis as a US Airman also a Jew. It was not fun!
Report Post »GPS-Tech
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 12:59am@she man mace
“Lick some nazi boots”
Thats a serious oral fixation you have there.
Report Post »GPS-Tech
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 1:04am@She man mace
“You do know that I’m a Tea Party member, right?”
yeah I can tell. When I weas at the tea party rally here in Houston every one was getting smoked out and quoting Alex jones.
Report Post »GPS-Tech
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 1:05am“was”
Report Post »confederacyofdunces
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 7:59pmI don‘t like these creeps but I didn’t see him do anything wrong. It’s one thing to tear down their tents at sundown and arrest the loiterers, it’s another thing to arrest someone who is trying to avoid you. Sorry, sadly if I were on a jury I could not convict him.
Report Post »Crack their heads at sundown, OK.
RightThinking1
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 10:10pmConfederate:
Report Post »The Park Police were putting up posters notifying the ‘occupiers’ that they must vacate. The bozo in the video was tearing the posters down. Got it? He was charged with disorderly conduct, in most jurisdictions he would have been charged, justifiably, with half a dozen other charges. I fail to see how anyone can be upset about this. This guy was one of those who feels that ‘freedom of speech’ allows him free rein on public (or private) property to ‘express’ himself in whatever manner he chooses. That has never been true, and it is not true now.
SoupSandwich
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 10:10pmRead. The Occutard taping doesn’t get the act en toto, just as the uniforms realize they actually have to work, and make the Dude in the twister jammies do the kickin chicken, when he just wants more Lucky Charms after waking and baking, after losing his flip flops the night before in a cat hole when he was peeing on the security/library tent wall. Pay attention, these are tangos in the making and there has been no time or effort in getting Rosetta for Occutards on Kindle as things progress too quickly for marketing and subsequent out sourcing to where people still work at producing stuff.
Report Post »CulperGang
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 12:21pmFinally a citizen who see the reality of it. Many of these protesters I have nothing in common with ideologically BUT they definitelly are right about the 1%. As for unions a lot of union members KNOW that their leaders are the whorse of LIBERAL politicians and are going independent.
Report Post »Not all these people are “Lefties” as you idiots on the Blaze seem to accept from the lies of the FAUX news now outted as shills Progressive Right and Left Politicians.
barber2
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 7:57pmSo an Occupier said the use of the “stun gun was ” unnecessary ?” Well, I think the tax-payer leeches Occupations are more unnecessary. Tired of tax payers getting stuck with these Play Days for Anarchists .
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 10:36pmI guess we should kill them all then Huh?
Report Post »barber2
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 11:09pmCHIEF: ( Troll. ) We do not not to “ kill” ( your word ) these poor misguided souls. They just need to be saved from the hellish ignorance they are living in due to their Marist brainwashers…. You also ??
Report Post »CulperGang
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 12:23pmthe real tax leeches are politicians. i don’t see you neo cons complaining. no, because you are busy with your tax write offs which is an undercover tax leech. just keeping it real.
Report Post »Laus Deo
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 7:56pmI want to see a stun gun-pepper spray-rubber bullet combo.
Report Post »SoupSandwich
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 8:06pmNo backboard.
Report Post »dsind
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 7:53pmI have mixed emotions watching this.
Report Post »I hate OWS ppl but this could be us (TP)
one day!
dsind
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 8:03pmI mean police clamping down..
Report Post »iomegaboy
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 7:51pmBravo to the professionalism shown by these officers.
Report Post »FHNYMillie
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 7:51pmIt’s amusing how one line of a story can say so much — An Occupy DC participant (strike one) told the Washington Post (strike two) that the use of the stun gun was unnecessary (strike three). These freaks should have been dealt with months ago and not allowed to become a wart on our backsides! Instead, elected officials allowed them or encouraged them in their acts. Look at Oakland this weekend. The freaks in office sided with the occupiers and then they wonder why they have trouble with them and their violence. God bless the policemen who have to deal with these n’er do wells. I thank them for being so professional in the face of such abuse.
Report Post »Mess23
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 8:01pmQuan needs to be removed from office and put and end to mob rule that Quan and her progressive, husband not only tolerates but encourage.
I am sure she is asking why these people with no morals did this to her after all she did to support them? Idiot!!!!
Report Post »barber2
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 9:47pmFHNY: excellent observations – especially the 1, 2, 3 . Shouldn‘t this also be their 3 strikes and they’re out by now ? How long will tax payers be expected to pay for these endless anarchist Play Days ?
Report Post »Patriot of My America
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 7:49pmThats funny I dont care who ya are… Larry The Cable guy…LMAO …
Report Post »Mess23
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 7:45pmObama’s peeps are a bunch of animals…
How can the Dem’s support these spoiled freakin brats?
Report Post »Ran60
Posted on January 31, 2012 at 7:39amQuite simply….they are the product of the collectivists, and this is the culmination of their labors.
Report Post »mils
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 7:44pmso glad to hear the cops are doing their job…stun gun away!!..I would gladly volunteer to help them in this duty…
Report Post »Objective_Reasonableness
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 7:37pmI would call the OWS lot animals, but I won’t insult animals in that way. Animals can tend to their own needs. They feed themselves, clean themselves and are loyal to their pack/pod/flock/pride, etc. This whole OWS fiasco needs to end. This joker in the above linked video got exactly what he deserved. The LEO’s showed a tremendous amount of professionalism by not responding the the sheeple yelling profanity and insults. Thank you USPP for upholding the laws of our great land and prohibiting this garbage from continuing their criminal activity.
Report Post »WISEPENNY
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 7:29pmI guess the guy will think twice about throwing a temper tantrum on the park rangers. Lol
Report Post »SoupSandwich
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 7:36pmWhat is with the UN colored skull hats on the mopes/drones? Who passes those out? Easy to ID.
Report Post »GBMBulletsSKNRD
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 8:55pmI have to say this video was enjoyable to watch. Can’t wait to see more just like it. I did LOL when this dor k went down.
Report Post »JP4JOY
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 7:28pmThe new “electroshock therapy”. Too bad it doesn’t work as well as they would like. There needs to be functioning synapses for there to be any real lasting effect. LOL
Report Post »WISEPENNY
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 7:31pmHa ha ha ha ha ha! Great comment. Lights on but nobody home. Lol
Report Post »restorehope
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 7:28pmHopefully, this man will become a much-needed object lesson for other Occupiers who feel they do not have to obey the law. If they choose to ignore the laws of our country, so be it. They can hold their next rally in jail.
Report Post »Got2bRoni
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 7:28pmI bet if captain kirk saw these lunatics he would give the orders “to take the phasers off stun”….
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 7:35pm‘He’s dead Jim’
Report Post »RightThinking1
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 8:03pm‘You grab his Tri-corder, I’ll get his wallet…’
Report Post »3monkeysmomma
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 8:44pm“the needs of the many, outweighs the needs of the few or the one”
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 7:27pmDon’t tase me bro
Report Post »gothope
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 7:26pmYou couldn’t pay me to do a cops job, but every once in a while it would be fun.
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 7:26pmAbout time! Across the top of his/her head a long time ago would have worked wonders.
Report Post »restorehope
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 7:25pmI don’t feel sorry at all for the guy in his jammies lying on the ground. He was warned repeatedly and he chose to ignore those warnings. Too bad…so sad for him. Why is a grown man walking around in jammies anyway? Has the fabric of society become so torn that there are no standards of decency anymore?
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 7:34pmHe‘s in pj’s because he refuses to work so you and me are forced to support him,the government will make you and me and pj boy equal,equally poor and very soon I suspect.
Report Post »JP4JOY
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 7:46pmHe left his mother‘s basement and she didn’t dress him or pack his bags.
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