Cops attack dissenter at Coulter lecture

It's hard to say what symbol from the key I should use here. Since Ann Coulter is involved, probably most of them.

Last week, Coulter made a stop at the College of New Jersey. College Republicans groped attendees with a metal detector, and Coulter's lecture was as idiotic as one might expect.

At the end of the school-sponsored appearance, the vice-president of the College Democrats tried asking Coulter some incisive, trenchant questions. In response, the student was promptly brutalized by police officials.

Police dragged the student out of the auditorium, shoved him to the ground, and injured him - all for asking Ann Coulter a serious question. The cops called the student a "fucking asshole", "faggot", and "shithead."

I know that at least several cops read this blog, and there's general agreement that for any police officer to behave the way cops behaved in this story is unprofessional and criminal. The police in this incident weren't acting like real police. They were acting like jackbooted brownshirts.

Ironically, most of Coulter's speech was spent comparing Democrats to Nazis. Yet at every Coulter appearance, it's always her supporters who display Nazi behavior. At other Coulter lectures, College Republicans have roughed up people who dared to dissent.

I support honest, competent, professional police. But I have absolutely zero patience with those who abuse a badge to the degree seen in this incident. There are few individuals who I deem completely unworthy of living in society, but if a police officer abuses their power as spectacularly as in this episode, they certainly fit into that category.

We need to change the law and impose life imprisonment for those who misuse a badge to brutalize members of the public.

(Source: http://media.www.signal-online.net/media/storage/paper771/news/2009/02/18/News/Coulter.Liberal.Media.Bias.Creates.victims-3637902.shtml;
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/2/19/155659/800/272/699418)