The police tasered 2 anti-Republican protesters?

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http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06280/728177-53.stm

Jeb Bush gets rude welcome

Police disperse angry protesters in Downtown T-station

Saturday, October 07, 2006

By Ervin Dyer, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette


<snip>Mr. Grove said a Port Authority canine unit was called in to help with crowd control. Two officers used their tasers to stun two protesters who "were asked to leave, but did not go," Mr. Grove said.

The tasers he said were empty of the cartridges that supply a more powerful charge.

"It was a very tense situation. They were very close to the governor and shouting on top of him."

As a precaution, the governor was ushered into a T-station supply closet and stayed there until the crowd left.

No arrests were made and no citations were issued, Mr. Grove said. Mr. Bush was not injured.

The two men who were tasered were shaken and left the protest, said David Meieran, with the Thomas Merton Center and one of the protesters with Uprise Counter Recruitment.

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1. The Taser gun is but another weapon that WILL be abused by the state.

Florida police are oinkers.

[OwnedByFerrets]

2. How long before protesters are shot for their dissent. nt

[BlooInBloo]

3. Um, you forgot your DU-pro-taser-stampede suit....

DUers LOVE themselves a good taser-party...

I still recall the love they gave the taserin cops in Redmond, WA. That'll teach women to have diabetic attacks! lol!

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5. What's this all about?

" still recall the love they gave the taserin cops in Redmond, WA. That'll teach women to have diabetic attacks! lol!"

[BlooInBloo]

6. A few months ago cops tazed a woman in Redmond Wa...

... for not following their instructions. She wasn't following their instructions because she was in the midst of a diabetic seizure attack thingamajiggie.

Some DUers were, shall we say, more sympathetic towards the cops than one might think appropriate.

I seem to recall the woman being pregnant too - but I might just be making shit up on that part...

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10. And Rush Limbaugh thinks that this is a "liberal" site.

:eyes:

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4. Hop[e those bushwhacked sue the shit out of the city and officer(s)

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7. They're lucky neither man died. And this stinks to high heaven. nt

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8. Jebbie hid in a closet??

That should be national news.

[Rex]

9. Can we get some eyewitness accounts, perhaps the guys tazered?

I understand there were no arrests made...hmmm...no doesn't pass the smell test.