Democrat arrested outside Cantor event (Virginia)

[Tx4obama]

Source: nbc12

RICHMOND, VA (WWBT) - snip - Jon Taylor, a member of the Louisa Democratic Committee and a supporter of Rick Waugh refused to leave the private event. The owner of the shop then got police involved.

Louisa Town Police and the County Sheriffs struggled with Taylor for several minutes. The tangle required three officers before he was finally subdued. The fracas was captured on cell phone video by Taylor's son Bradley.

He claims the sheriffs and local police were out to get him before he said a word.

"The Louisa County police department was basically used by Eric Cantor's campaign to make a political statement," said Taylor.

Read more: http://www.nbc12.com/Global/story.asp?S=13386275

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Video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AOmXhmZq4o
Description posted with video:
This video was taken by the son of the man being subdued. He took it with his cellphone. This man was asked to leave the Solid Grounds Coffeehouse in Louisa, Virginia, at a public event for Eric Cantor. The man was sitting at a table waiting for Cantor to arrive. Then police asked him to leave and, when they got him outside, they arrested him, after an excessive amount of force, as you can see in the video. They came back and arrested the person who videotaped the incident, even though he was on a public sidewalk. They did not arrest, but gave a citation to, a woman with a small child.

The video shows the officers subduing the man, cuffing him, and then another policeman racing in and knocking the man to the ground.
Apparently, the event was only for Republicans although it was advertised as open to the public and the man on the ground had an invitation. Democrats had "Waugh for Congress signs" outside. They, too, were cleared out of a public sidewalk and forced to go across the street with their signs.

[armodem08]

1. Fucking pigs... n/t.

[onehandle]

2. I wonder if there is a story that Fox News can use to bury the stomping story.

Ah, here we go.

[Tx4obama]

3. You can't bury one story of republicans abusing a democrat with another one doing the same thing n/t

[Jackpine Radical]

4. I think they're trading up.

Arresting someone with a camera is a notch or 2 up on the disgustometer over knocking a woman down & stomping on her head. Pretty soon some Democrat will forget to wear his flag lapel pin to a public event & the media will all be off hounding him for his lack of patriotism.

[No Elephants]

19. Cantor provided a distraction once before--someone allegedly shot "at" "his" office.

Turned out the office was not actually his--and no one had shot "at" any offiice, only in the vicinity.

As soon as the facts came out, the story vanished. No one mocked him, etc.

If Cantor had been a Democrac, every messed up accusation or police report would be called a "Cantor" forevermore, as in, "Naomi Campbell told the police a Cantor about hitting her maid because the maid had stolen her diamond ring. Turned out Naomi had only borrowed the ring for a red carpet event and the maid had returned the ring to the owner when the owner came for it."

In fact, we should do this. Why not?

[Downwinder]

5. Pretty obvious how approachable Cantor will be if elected.

[glinda]

6. K & R

Police force is being possibly replaced by militia people.

[Tx4obama]

7. The MSM needs to report on this story! n/t

[Doctor_J]

12. But they won't!

[indimuse]

8. AGAIN??

This BS is outta control and needs to stop!

[Doctor_J]

9. Youre safer waving a gun at an Obama rally than standing peacefully

at a teabagger rally.

[fascisthunter]

10. illustrates the Difference between the left and right

[Doctor_J]

11. Amazing how we've let the fascists just have this country without

ever fighting back. If you'd told me 30 years ago that the wingers would be able to beat people up, wave guns at the president, and threaten Dems' lives on TV, while we'd be arrested or assaulted just for standing at a Repuke event, and we'd do nothing about it, I'd have said you were crazy. Yet, here we are.

[Winterblues]

13. Makes one really wonder about that "Meek inheriting the Earth" thingy...

That is Democrats main fault or strength, however one might look at it, they are meek....They don't expect such brutish behavior and are not prepared to deal with it...However, they gain support because of their timidness from many sane and fair minded people..I don't believe the majority of the people actually like brutality and some might even feel shame for their side resorting to it...

[Doctor_J]

17. Well, given where the country was 20 years ago, and where it is

now, the brutes have gained a lot more than the meek.

[xiamiam]

15. watched with my mouth agape..as yesterday when the moron put his foot on the 23 year old woman

beyond comprehension...

[Doctor_J]

16. because there is no retribution

as soon as a few violent teabaggers are taken to the morgue, the frame of discussion will have shifted.

[gauguin57]

14. It's open season on dissent -- Democratic dissent.

The cretin bullies are out of control.

[and-justice-for-all]

18. What the fuck is cantor/pukes scared of....

real public discourse? Unlike the brown shirts, we are prone to being violent.

[No Elephants]

20. Teabagger = Douchebagger.

Last night some Rethug strategist {read "liar"} whined to Chris Matthews about the Profitt stomping story, "It's unfair to say only one side is violent." Matthews responded, "Name one liberal who does things like this."

Unfortutately, the discussion went nowhere.