Reply #177: No, he wasn't asking for it, anymore than the kids that

[pnwmom]

had a sit-down strike in the Regent's office two days later were "asking for it." (How come no one used a Taser on them? They were committing an act of civil disobedience as much as he was. They didn't leave when they were told to. Obviously, the campus cops were told in the meantime to put their toys away.)

Until the Taser was invented, all any police officers would have done was carry him out -- just as they did in this case anyway. There was no reason for this student or anyone else to expect that the officer would use a Taser on a limp, non-violent passive resistor.