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The Shock Doctrine At the University Of Florida

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If the officers has stopped assaulting the kid then and let the Senator answer his questions, there would not have been an “incident” at all.

 

But they didn’t stop; instead six officers dragged the kid to the back of the room, cuffed him and sat on him.

 

He was asking repeatedly “What did I do?” But aside from that he was contained and they could have picked him up and carried him outside. 

 

But they didn’t do that either.

 

Instead, they tortured him into silence with a taser! Right there in front of everyone, with at least three cameras rolling.

 

A taser is not a toy. A taser is no joke. A taser is 20,000 volts of electricity conducted through your body. Tasers are extremely painful. They have been known to cause people to lose control of their bowels, have seizures and people have even died from having a taser used on them! 

 

Tasers are meant to be a non-lethal means to stop someone who poses a threat to physical safety.

 

Tasers are not supposed to be used as torture devices to force citizens into silence for asking controversial political questions!

 

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