James Finn
1 min read3 days ago

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He's lucky they cooperated. The more usual outcome for a person who refuses a cop's order is to be tasered and beaten up.

I watched a video just the other night where a man on his own property told cops who had been investigating a noise complaint to leave. (They were legally in the so-called curtilage of his home, and he had a right to demand that they leave and not come back without a warrant.) They told him he was under arrest for obstruction, and then they tried to force him to stand up. (He was sitting on the grass on his lawn near his front porch.)

He told them he was disabled, had just had a hip replacement, and suffered from severe spinal compression, so he needed help standing up.

Instead of helping him, they tasered him multiple times with the taser press directly into his chest, and they dragged him across the lawn toward their cruiser while he screamed in pain.

When the obstruction charge got to the prosecutor's office, it was dropped.

But the cops haven't been charged with any crime for beating the guy up.

That's just law enforcement of the United States today. Most cops are brutal people who resort to extreme violence at the drop of a pin.

Sometimes it's good to be famous and have cameras rolling nearby!

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James Finn
James Finn

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James Finn is an LGBTQ columnist, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, an alumnus of Act Up NY, and an agented but unpublished novelist.

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