The moment those police prevented the young man from hogging the mike, they were in for a brutality charge.

There are some who would consider anything aside from shutting off the mike to be uneccessary. There are probably some who would view that as an undue curtailment of his free speech.


I have mixed feelings about this. Tazering seems a little harsh, yet it was obviously a better choice then using their wands on the fellow. Was he likely to have suffered more harm from being picked up bodily by 4 or 5 officers and hauled out of the venue? I do not know.


Ultimately, creating a scene was likely to have been his real goal. If so, he was the only one to completely achieve his objective out of the whole group.