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My guess is counts his money?

Do you ever worry about someone doing "something" to your meal?

He did win league MVP twice.

Cincy?

YES!

Isn't he the kid discovered on youtube? My five year old knows about Germany. (well at least that they have an Olympic team) He was on that team for a school Olympic day.

I think he would have asked him to leave shortly anyway. The same security guy removed a smoker a few weeks before that. this guy lit a big !@#$ing cigar. People around him were pissed. He did not get a second warning (he was also pretty hammered though).

I see a kid running in circles waving a towel over his head.

Also get a fake finger and put the ring on it. You can get some pretty real looking stuff at joke shops. Tossing it with the finger attached, even better.

Thank you for your candid answer. Maybe the problem that I have is with the threshold to be met for the use of the taser being very low. Just seems to me that it was not meant (or should not have been meant) for this type of application. I think this man LINK would be considered an expert in the field. He says "public confidence issues have caused the vast majority of agencies to limit their Taser use to scenarios in which the suspect has demonstrated by action, word, or deed, their intention to use violence or force against the officer or another person. " Now that article was from 2005 and maybe things have changed, but I just don't see this particular situation falling within that scope.

I'm sure all officers with a taser are also familiar their agency's policies and procedures on the use of them. Does that mean the use them in the proper way every time? Actually I have been following the debate on taser usage for some time (since Robert Dziekanski was tased at the Vancouver airport) and have read plenty of articles with viewpoints from both sides (and not just sensational media). I don't profess to know everthing about tasers, but I do know when I see something that disturbs me, and that video did. I'm not alone LA Times Some quotes from the article: "Last year, the American Medical Assn.'s Council on Science and Public Health reviewed the physiological effects of Tasers and deaths after Taser shocks by police. Based on information gathered from 1985 to March 2009, the study concluded that stun guns are used too frequently and "may contribute to the death of suspects directly or indirectly." Mary Catherine Roper, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union in Philadelphia, echoed that, telling the AP she didn't understand why the officer used a Taser. "How long can he really run around out there?" Roper said of the fan. "In this situation, he's not dangerous, he's not getting away." In this situation you would have done exactly as this officer did? if not how would you have handled it?

So is that why they tased this guy, so they wouldn't have to kill him?

Every situation is unique, in this case I believe that was excessive force and i don't think we we see that happening again anytime soon. Just a feeling.

Tell that to the people's families who have died from being tased. Sometimes steroetypes exist for a reason. We all got to see it this time on video.

Yes, I do believe they should have tackled him instead of using a taser. A taser would not have prevented the Seles incident, they are not comparable.

I have a opinion different than yours, so I must be an idiot? Well done.

We will see if tasering fans who run onto the field, becomes policy. I think not. Tasers are causing cops to become lazy. Why should I use my training when I can just taser the guy.

I don't smoke, but I have no problem with the current policy. If I don't want to breath it in, I don't go to that area. Pretty simple.

Really? People in my section care. Last year some jackazz decides to light up a smoke, after security told him to put it out twice, the guy in the row behind him said "here, let me put that out for you" and dumped a beer on his head. Problem solved. They both had to leave.

Police forces promote it as such. I would have eaten fewer doughnuts and caught the guy.

No not really. Where is the precident for "run on the field, get tasered"? Where is that in law as an accepted deterrent or punishment for running on the field? I agree what this kid did was stupid, but requiring him to be tasered, no !@#$ing way. Tasers were brought in to be used as an alternative to "more lethal" methods. Would they have considered shooting this guy, but decided to use the taser instead. Lazy security. This kid will win a lawsuit.

No, but it's been pretty common around here for a while.

That list would be longer, if you let Canadians play.

Another fan ran on the field tonight, guess what? No taser this time. I wonder why? Because that !@#$ing insane to taser someone for running on the field. Why not just shoot them?

That's better!