4um: Man who was TASERed at council meeting speaks -Student says he didn't struggle, was exercising rights

Title: Man who was TASERed at council meeting speaks -Student says he didn't struggle, was exercising rights
Source: WJRT
URL Source: http://abclocal.go.com/wjrt/story?section=local&id=4757721
Published: Nov 20, 2006
Author: By Terry Camp
Post Date: 2006-11-20 22:55:58 by Zipporah
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Views: 227
Comments: 18

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SAGINAW (WJRT) - (11/13/06)--The man who was TASERed at last week's Saginaw City Council meeting says he never attacked anyone.
Charles Littleton says he was only standing up for his rights -- rights he says society continues to lose every day.
That is what got 22-year-old Littleton in trouble. He didn't obey a rule inside Saginaw City Council chambers. That rule is that all men must remove their hats.
"It means more than just a hat," Littleton said. "It's like my crown. It's like asking a king to remove his crown."
Littleton had his Los Angeles Dodgers hat on at last week's council meeting.
He was dragged out of the meeting after being TASERed following what was described as scuffle with police, but Littleton says it didn't happen that way.
"I never kicked, punched, swung or anything like that," he said. "They are making it seem like I attacked the officer, then had to be TASERed because I was attacking them. That's not true at all."
The Detroit-area resident and Saginaw Valley State University student has now been charged with two felonies and a misdemeanor because of the incident.
He was attending the meeting to get extra credit for an urban sociology class. He was unaware of the council rule, which calls for all men to remove their hats.
"It's not about them trying to bring order to a meeting because my hat -- not its shape, form or fashion -- disrupted the proceedings," he said.
"They just want to control us and tell us what we can or cannot do. I will not bow down and bow out and follow blindly."
Littleton says he believes the rule discriminates.
"A Jewish man -- would you ask me to remove my yarmulke? A kofee? A turban? Anything like that?" Littleton said.
"But I guess a Los Angeles Dodgers hat is not a religious symbol. That is secular. You respect religion but you don't respect this."
Littleton plans on going to the Saginaw County Courthouse this week to be arraigned on the charges.

Got that one right. Pre-emptive TASEing for the sins the justice system knows we may commit, comming 2009.

All men die. Not all men truly live. Live for something, rather than die for nothing.

Funny you mentioned it. There must have been two hundred and more videos of TASEing.

If the stormtroopers ever pull out a taseron me I;m gonna say: "That's not a gun. THIS is a GUN!" a la Crocdile Dundee and watch the look on their faces when the Colt Python comes flying out of its shoulder holster.

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And now you see why there are more young, black males in prison than in college.

He had no interest in learning about how European caucasians conduct govt affairs, he was there to demonstrate that he's an African king. And, they rule by thuggery and cruelty not by any principles that we are bound to respect.

We have a million crownless African child kings behind bars. Actually, they're better suited to serve as jigaboo court jesters with their hats turned around, their oversized boxers puffed and their fractured English.

And all some people see is "TASER". They are blinded to the threat that this thug represents.

He'll soon blame his academic failure on systemic racism (even if the council is black) even though he couldn't even show the minimum respect to learn about the system for "extra credit."

And then we'll see what he and other African kings consider legitimate protest-rape, robbery and murder.

Perhaps he was there to teach instead of learn. And with a course titled "urban sociology" who can blame him?

"Well nothing I do dont seem to work, It only seems to make matters worse. oh please"__The Stones

"We become what we behold. We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us." -- Marshall McLuhan, after Alexander Pope and William Blake.

OMG - I don't want to see you in trouble, but if it ever happens I hope there are pictures!!!

That is an excellent post and exposes the "culture" in AmeriKa quite accurately.

Anyone resisting for a true Freedom is one thing, but to resist an authority because of a stupid baseball hat is proof the kid probably needed the extra credit to bring his F average up to a D. "Days was tryin' to take my crown!!!" BWAHAHAHAHA

Again, however, we do see moronic cops tazing when any cop with an ounce of brains could have defused the situation peacefully. I never had a damned tazer on the streets of Dallas and I got along with even ruffians quite nicely, much less peaceful "protesters."

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You got it Indie TX. The more people defend police abuse, the more they'll get. This kid needs to sue the pos.

What I espect for you you rascist. Im tellin mad "Max" on you. He don like racist iether. Then I gonna tell Goldilicks to come on over hear and read yo rasict filth you cracka!

I worship Israel. Kill all Arabs and let Allah sort 'em out. We are the chosen ones. Shalom.

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"We become what we behold. We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us." -- Marshall McLuhan, after Alexander Pope and William Blake.