WOAH! I found an eyewitness account in a forum posting, very interesting.

A firearms forum called ‘The Firing Line’ has a 6-page-long debate raging over this, with a surprising number of gun owners (who one would think are obviously conservative and therefore very pro-LE) dissenting against the officer’s actions, and one of the eyewitness students has a long post there with his account: http://thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=228564&page=5

The first thing I noticed was the student shout “don’t touch me” the very first time when he was still as his desk (a little earlier than when the camera began to roll I believe. I was about 30 feet away from him.) I hadn’t noticed the policemen come in. I looked over and I saw the student standing up, his hands were in the air in a very “get your hands off me” manner…

What did I tell you??? See, this guy was being uncooperative and combative from the get-go, and I still stand by my original assertion that, at the VERY least, he deserved the first zap he got!!

…One other student and I started speaking with this officer, saying mostly 1) this student is being assaulted by these officers and you have to stop this and 2) we want the names and badge numbers of all the officers there. He told us that we would get them and that we needed to calm down. The student was pretty much motionless at this point except for the few times he was being tased. We continued complaining as the student was being dragged out, but he was badly obscured at this point by several officers and security guards. Then another officer approached me directly and told me to back up, to which I replied with some witty remark about the limits of his authority in the situation. He told me again to back up, and I said something like “I just want your badge numbers” and he told me again to back up right now and that if I didn’t move back I would be tased too. I didn’t move and looked at him directly, at which point he raised his taser gun and pointed it at me (I saw the red light glow right in the center of it) and said “try me”. I turned around and lifted my hands.

Ok, THAT does not sound good–at all. Granted, this is still possibly biased or mistaken–eyewitness accounts often are–but if it’s even half-ass correct, it’s starting to paint a very disturbing picture of at least one officer’s actions.

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