Reply #4: Wow. I just watched the whole video, and the violence [View All]

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against American citizens who were doing nothing objectionable is amazing!

Imagine some teenager with a earbuds, listening to his iPod playlist and sort of mildly bopping his head or body to the music. That is about how much "dancing" most of the protesters were doing. One couple were simply hlding each other and swaying gently back and forth--and of course they were arrested for it!

And as the security forces took people to the ground and handcuffed them, they were very violent and brutal about it, yelling, "Stop resisting!" the whole time they were roughing people up.

It is true that Kokesh did not cooperate by putting his hands behind his back for handcuffs, but that was the extent of his "resistance." Obviously that enraged the officers, because one literally picked him up and threw him very violently to the ground and grabbed him by the throat with both hands, and then he and another officer very violently turned him oer and handcufed him.

The violence and brutality were unnecessary, but quite obviously a matter of the cops' fury at not being immediately submitted to.

"Respect mah authoritah!!"