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A clear exercise of their First Amendment rights, in the spirit of Citizens United
Plus, they're just generally loud, in the way that only places full of poor people are loud (I have poor in-laws, their house is always loud. That's because the TV is always blaring, and since the TV is always blaring, they're always yelling at each other to be heard above the blaring. I always feel like Hyacinth Bucket when I go visit them. They love Wal-Mart.)
Wal-Marts are dreadful places. If you have to go discount, go K-Mart. You will never be bothered by anyone, because hardly anyone shops at K-Mart.
Seems like this would be more than enough probable cause to perform a drug raid on their residence. Sounds like they go around yelling at cops. Pretty soon, they'll be assaulting people who they think are undercover cops, or maybe someone who uses a tire iron instead of taser. Look at this more as the intervention their family can't/won't stage.
17: You win!
I actually have a lot of sympathy for the cop in this one. What is he supposed to do? He was trying to settle the guy down, the guy lost his shit and swung at him, he's got that enormous harpy screeching in his ear - I think the guy's lucky he wasn't nightsticked and shot. The cop seemed to maintain his cool pretty well, all things considered.
Confronting a police officer, yelling at him, and resisting arrest / throwing a punch at him? He is lucky that all he got was the tazzer.
If we saw a video of a black couple being tased, ostensibly for protesting that the police are giving commands, while a couple of white teenagers laughed as they recorded it, we'd be decrying how racist the incident was.
They confronted the cop for "shopping on duty" while he was doing a walkthrough at the Walmart, and in the video you can see the guy hitting the cop in the upper chest / lower neck area, which is assault and a crime.
In this video, there's nothing indicating ANY kind of police brutality in play here, which needs to be present in order for your comment to be valid. I saw none.
The joy Americans now take in watching people punished with tasers is pathetic.
Really, though, the video made me sad that the first thing people think of when they see something going down is to videotape it for mass consumption. The stupid ass giggles of the guy recording it made me hate him more than anyone else involved in this little episode.
The video isn't a subject of mirth because these people are white; it's a subject of mirth because they're fat, stupid, obnoxious, and clearly deserving of everything they had coming to them. The color of their skin in this instance is completely irrelevant.