This story of police in Florida using a taser on some poor guy is ridiculous on its own (disturbing videos at each of those links). But the crowd applauding it and John Kerry just blathering on while it happens is unreal.
I've referenced before that authoritarians personalities reflexively claim that we shouldn't worry about abuse of power. Somehow amazing things like this just rolls off their back. And what is even more disturbing is knowing that for every one of these attacks that gets caught on video, there are dozens more happening that never come to light. Many of those are far worse, and I'd bet that minorities are disproportionately the victims, probably by a large margin.
A guy talks to much and police torture him while an audience of students and an internationally prominent politician watch and do nothing. "America" doesn't really have any meaning does it?
update:
I'm posting the video of the student as well as a group of police officers tackling a man, breaking his leg in the process, for wearing a "I love the people of Iraq" button while waiting in line to enter a Congressional hearing.
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Since you're a psychological hobbyist (I don't mean this as an insult, I mean that you're intersted in psych), you might find it interesting to analyze events such as this tasering incident to the Stanford Prison Experiment and the very-well documented phenomena called dissipation of responsibility.
Yeah though I think that analysis is more interesting in the context of Arthur's analogy that I mentioned in my other post on this topic.
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