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Young preacher tasered, beaten at Arizona traffic stop for refusing to submit to warrantless search

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Young preacher tasered, beaten at Arizona traffic stop for refusing to submit to warrantless search. Video embedded below:

I told them I was a US citizen.
I told them I was on a business trip.
I told them I had no drugs or humans in the car.

That wasn't enough. They wanted to search the car, and I invoked my 4th amendment rights.

I DID NOT RESIST OR FIGHT BACK. YET I WAS TAZERED REPEATEDLY AND SHOVED IN BROKEN GLASS REPEATEDLY!

I was IN the United States!!! I had crossed no international border!!!

This occured on the night of April 14/15, 2009

For updates, visit my wife's blog @http://www.stevenandersonfamily.com

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