Video: Bro tased at the New Orleans city council meeting Updated
posted at 4:51 pm on December 20, 2007 by Bryan
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It’s nigh unto impossible to see the bro actually being tased, unfortunately, but a bro does stake a claim to having been tased.
The audio weirdness late in the clip seems to be a technical glitch in the station.
Here’s the back story on the fracas.
A city council meeting where the fate of several New Orleans housing developments was to be decided was delayed several times due to shouting matches and skirmishes that broke out inside of the chamber. The meeting began about an hour late with a long reading of rules to the public about how the council meeting was to proceed.
Security had to physically restrain several protesters and housing demonstrators complained that several people trying to get in the meeting were prevented from doing so.
Police used chemical spray and stun devices as dozens of protesters tried to force their way through an iron gate at City Hall.
Some people were arrested as officers tried to establish order and an ambulance arrived on the scene. It was unclear whether there were injuries or the ambulance was a precautionary measure.
According to the video, those who were ejected from the meeting weren’t residents themselves, but advocates for the residents. Probably of the self-appointed variety, acting on John Edwards’ call to be a voice for people who are otherwise right there and perfectly able to speak for themselves if they so choose. And the advocates may be representing an attitude that’s not helpful in still unreconstructed New Orleans. Or among its scattered former residents.
Nice TV. Mine’s about half that size.
Update: Laura at Pursuing Holiness has much, much more information and perspective on this. Here’s a money quote, but be sure and read the whole thing.
Those people are not going to support themselves until there is absolutely no other option, and possibly not even then. Part of the current political flap is the so called “right to return” for New Orleans “refugees.” The right to come back and be supported by taxpayers? There are jobs going to spare here. We’ve absorbed tens of thousands of illegal aliens and we still don’t have enough workers. People can return anytime they please, if they’re willing to pay their own way.
Barack Obama and John Edwards are on record as wanting to keep the moldy, lead-painted, asbestos-filled, high-crime slums that these protestors are fighting to keep open. Who’s really doing more to help poor people?
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That picture is disgusting and sickening. That lady has alot of nerve……
JVelez on December 20, 2007 at 4:55 PM
Where is Hugo Chavez when you need him?
He knows how to deal with trouble makers.
RobCon on December 20, 2007 at 4:56 PM
Remind me again why we rebuilt the city of New Orleans?
. . .
Utah Boy on December 20, 2007 at 4:57 PM
- from the linked article above…
OMG! This just makes my blood boil…
Nineball on December 20, 2007 at 5:00 PM
Same here. Oh, to live on the public dole; I could tell stories about some neighbors we used to have in their “income assistance” condo. The ones with the brand new F-150 (Harley-Davidson Edition), Harley-Davidson motorcycle (not a Ford edition, though), skidoo, and cabin in the woods.
Frozen Tex on December 20, 2007 at 5:01 PM
According to John McPhee the Mississippi is headed down the Atchafalaya soon anyway. Problem solved, the city settles to the bottom of the gulf.
Limerick on December 20, 2007 at 5:01 PM
that poor town is about to experience an LA meltdown… er L.A.
amend2 on December 20, 2007 at 5:04 PM
Going down in Chocolate Town.
Wonder if it would be a third world country if the Brits took it in 1812?
Hening on December 20, 2007 at 5:05 PM
I remember, just after Katrina, a morbidly obese woman was screeching into the camera, “It’s just not enough! It’s just not enough!” Made me regret the money I sent down to help there.
Entitlement mentality. Disgusting.
techno_barbarian on December 20, 2007 at 5:06 PM
and everyday another group crosses the border.
Limerick on December 20, 2007 at 5:08 PM
Thats nicer than my apartment and I work full time!
ronsfi on December 20, 2007 at 5:10 PM
God help me, but I felt real hate for that woman after I read the story. 80% of the people on this Earth would kill to live like her, and she doesn’t do SH*T, apparently. Go live in the tent, lady, GO AHEAD!
RW Wacko on December 20, 2007 at 5:13 PM
Thank God she didn’t have an i-Phone in her hand. We would never hear the end of it.
Limerick on December 20, 2007 at 5:16 PM
I work F/T and go to school at night, paying every penny of tuition on my own. I get about 5 hours of sleep a night, and I’m supposed to feel sorry for people living off my taxes who choose not to work, not to go to school, and who have tv’s 3 x as big as mine? (which I don’t watch, anyway, except to catch up on the news, because I’m too busy working/studying/taking care of my family, so I don’t really care…) but it’s the outrageousness of the victim mentality. “I don’t like living poor….” BOOOO HOOOO HOOOO makes me sick.
JustTruth101 on December 20, 2007 at 5:16 PM
How much would France charge us to take New Orleans back? Might be worth the price.
jaime on December 20, 2007 at 5:17 PM
I’d like to see her take that big ol TV and plug it into a tent.
StephC on December 20, 2007 at 5:19 PM
I dont blame the people of New Orleans for this fiasco. I blame the democratic party that has created a sub culture of poverty that convinces people that all they have to do is sit around and the government will take care of them.
They have destroyed the lives of these people by sucking out the will to find something better than a government handout
William Amos on December 20, 2007 at 5:19 PM
same here, should see the dump I live in. I’m envious of those shiny hardwood floors and the beautiful wooden cabinets in the kitchen, and of course the TV. Government will give me that? I can has?
Keli on December 20, 2007 at 5:24 PM
The use of pepper spray to beat back crowds trying to crash through a gate and disrupt a meeting is “police brutality”?
amerpundit on December 20, 2007 at 5:27 PM
Ditto.
amerpundit on December 20, 2007 at 5:29 PM
And that living room probably has at least half, if not more, of the square footage of my condominium.
If they were looking to generate sympathy for the entitlement cause, that photo wasn’t the way to do it.
Hawkins1701 on December 20, 2007 at 5:29 PM
This a great point. In fact, they have become victims in the TRUE sense of the word. They are conditioned away from working for themselves and towards dependency. Sad
Utah Boy on December 20, 2007 at 5:33 PM
Maybe Sarkozy could whip them into shape.
Frozen Tex on December 20, 2007 at 5:39 PM
My TV’s about a third of that size…my TV sucks ass.
Bad Candy on December 20, 2007 at 5:53 PM
Chaos in N.O.? Impossible.
And how racist it that cameraman, he only shot blacks…
right2bright on December 20, 2007 at 5:56 PM
Thank you democrat party for creating, so far, 3 generations of leeches. Well done!
SouthernGent on December 20, 2007 at 5:59 PM
brought to you again by the revolutionary communist party and the international socialist organization.
they’ve been making a beachead at new orleans for a while now, complete with a travelling shantytown occuppied by uppper-middleclass white baby-boomers who play the role of the politically sensitive and articulate peasant (as communists often do) for credulous newscameras.
http://neworleans.indymedia.org/news/2007/12/11603.php
note how the skinhead identified his status with the city as “student”. one reason radical progressives like to identify themselves as “students” (i.e.: “…an authentic resistence movement of workers, students and indigenous peoples…” [of which the actual composition is two workers, one non-white professor and 500 white, rich "students".]) is because it allows them to fudge things. for instance, as a euphamism for “enlightened bourgoisie”, or “rich white kid with an electra/oedipus complex” or “juvenile delinquent who crushes and snorts his ritalin”. here it serves as a snappy answer to the question of what defensible basis some dude from madisaon wisconson has in instigating a mob physical confrontation at the city hall building in new orleans.
jummy on December 20, 2007 at 5:59 PM
Absolutely correct! Entitlement mentality conditions these people to be victims for generations. There’s no incentive to better themselves.
The Democrats know them as victim votes.
Kini on December 20, 2007 at 5:59 PM
Has anyone heard much about the poor people in Oklahoma and Kansas who are without lights going on 2 weeks? I guess they have the wrong skin color for the media to care. I doubt you will see many Okies, regardless of race, whining too much, though. It’s just the way most Americans do things…they do it themselves.
SouthernGent on December 20, 2007 at 6:05 PM
the clip of the skinhead’s post-rage elucidation on his rightious right to physically storm and upend a city council meeting of a city in which he does not live, btw, got picked up by cnn. it’s what they’re playing.
it works. sort of like blowing up a market, murdering a dozen people, and following up by releasing yoru videotaped manifesto to the press.
jummy on December 20, 2007 at 6:07 PM
“student” is a euphamism for “person with no authentic connection to the issue for which he is agitating, and insinuates himself soley for ideological interest, often to instigate or manufacture an ‘issue’ within a community in which he is an alien and to which he has no general or long-term committment.”
jummy on December 20, 2007 at 6:13 PM
17″ tube at my house, and no flat screen action either.
I gotta quote it again:
I’ve become convinced that we need to let suffering happen. Let people really hit rock bottom, really get hungry, whatever. The resources are here, and the opportunities abound, but I think the only thing that will wipe that entitlement smirk off people’s face is the jolt of a week without food. Get hungry, sell that damn tv for food and start living life.
TexasDan on December 20, 2007 at 6:24 PM
BTW, that TV has “FEMA debit card” written all over it.
TexasDan on December 20, 2007 at 6:37 PM
Lets see we cannot pour water on terrorists, but we can tase ourselve???
UMMM lets tase the terrorists into talking!!!! Whoo hoo! It would that be fun to watch the left whine to protect terrorists then!!
allrsn on December 20, 2007 at 6:39 PM
Yup TexasDan, I gotta repost that same quote. That is simply amazing. The entitlement mentality truly as become disgusting. Think about that dynamic, let it sink in and then recall the Hillary Clinton “Christmas” ad posted on this site earlier today. Its the perfect storm and its scary as hell. Socialism is knocking at our door, begging to come in. Very scary.
Zetterson on December 20, 2007 at 6:39 PM
thatallrsn on December 20, 2007 at 6:40 PM
That picture shows what her lazy butt does all day. Sits on that very couch, eating, watching that TV, and complaining about a leaky faucet.
Being poor is having no food, water, or shelter. Even then, NO ONE owes you anything. That’s what (voluntary) charity is for.
nottakingsides on December 20, 2007 at 6:44 PM
Reminds me of some lyrics from a Matthew Good song (Lefty Alert!). Something along the lines of:
“Lots of third world people would love to have my first world problems”
Frozen Tex on December 20, 2007 at 6:50 PM
Sorry, I was a little bit off…
“Omissions of the Omen” by Matthew Good Band:
Wait for me if I don’t show up
Take from me this hypocrits cup
And someone to run the world
Someone would love to have my first world problems
Kill the moon and turn out the sun
Lock your door and load your gun
Free at last now the time has come to choose
Frozen Tex on December 20, 2007 at 6:56 PM
do you guys realize the way this works?
a rich white person who is defined by their leftism creates a violent situation at a city council meeting. they say they are speaking as the voice of public housing residents.
conservatives: they take their word for it and offer up harsh words for public housing residents.
a rich white person who is defined by their leftism seeks out a public housing resident to use as a prop in their narrative in suppport of expanding government, using the public housing resident as a human sheild.
conservatives: attack the public housing resident.
a rich white person who is defined by their leftism want to eliminate the the u.s. border, comprimise her market and cripple the neo-liberal colosus in her cradle. so the rich white person who is defined by their leftism organizes illegal mexican aliens into million-strong marches.
conservatives: are somehow blind to the 3 white college leftists per mexican at any of these rallies and instead direct their rancor at mexicans.
and over and over and over again.
jummy on December 20, 2007 at 6:58 PM
Dear Santa, for Christmas I want to be as smart as jummy.
Thank you Santa.
TexasDan on December 20, 2007 at 7:01 PM
Look’s like a mini version of the 1968 DNC convention!
canopfor on December 20, 2007 at 7:10 PM
Hillary Clinton visits Sharon Jasper Christmas morning at her apartment in front of the big screen TV. The conversation goes something like this:
“You like those presents, well you just wait. Oooooo what have we here… why its free healthcare. Do you like that Sharon Jasper? Well we’re not done yet. No sirreeee Miss Jasper. Ooooo look at this… why its free college tuition. You like that Miss Jasper don’t you. What’s that Miss Jasper? Oh, you say there is another present under the tree. Why yes there is. And this one is extra special! This one is free pre-school for your fatherless children. Yippeee! So Mrs Jasper, I bet you have friends that broke into our country illegally don’t you. Well why don’t we just dish out some free college tuition for them too? Why not? Mike Huckabee thinks that the Christian thing to do as well. Yes, you like Mr Huckabee don’t you Miss Jasper. Once we get the free tuition thing done we can work on that Amnesty thing and turn them into nice lemming socialist Democrat voters. Yippee.”
Zetterson on December 20, 2007 at 7:12 PM
dear santa,
for christmas i want you to make texasdan proud of himself. increase the size of his weiner if that’s what’s required. but however you increase his self-confidence, let it at least be to the extent that he doen’t feel intellectually threatened by not especially inobvious points offered in plain language.
jummy on December 20, 2007 at 7:13 PM
see? I don’t even know what “inobvious” means.
I do know not to feed trolls.
TexasDan on December 20, 2007 at 8:04 PM
i’ve been posting here longer than you have. so, you know, sit down and stop making a scene.
jummy on December 20, 2007 at 8:16 PM
One of the few positive outcomes of flooding in New Orleans 2005 is the eventual destruction of drug and violence infested cubicles known as “projects.” Many have suggested single family dwellings for the working poor and these units have been successful. The knuckleheads protesting the destruction of the “projects” are standing in the way of bringing New Orleans into the
20th21st century. Please “tase them bro.”saved on December 20, 2007 at 8:38 PM
To the protesters: Boo Freakin Hoo. I’m suprised nobody has already said that. Any way to the lady in the picture. Ya it is a shame what some people will give you. Why do you take it? I have to work to feed my family and the money for those things that were “given” to you came out of my paycheck. Too bad she won’t see this site.
boomer on December 20, 2007 at 8:54 PM
Well you know what Neil Young said right, Welfare mothers make better lovers. It’s because of all the free stuff we give them. Oh, What the eff, I have never seen a city hall with an iron gate on it in my life. What a bunch of scumbags!
deadbackpacker on December 20, 2007 at 9:05 PM
I saw Sharon Jasper addressing the City Council today about her “rights.” I couldn’t get the capture set up in time, unfortunately, because it was quite remarkable. All I could think of was that this woman, who has spent the last 57 years on the dole to one extent or another - in public housing if nothing else - was protesting just a few blocks down the street from where my mother works. My mother is 62, and after her divorce, raised two kids without benefit of any public assistance and very little child support. She rents too - but she pays for it all on her own. It’s infuriating.
Laura on December 20, 2007 at 10:18 PM
Get a load of this: Demolition protests ignore some realities
Laura on December 20, 2007 at 10:48 PM
I believe the prevailing opinion here at Hot Air is that the officers should address crowd as if they were speaking to small children, fully informing the mob of its rights, including the right to file a 42 USC §1983 civil suit, followed by a scholarly exegesis on the Miranda ruling.
If that doesn’t work, the officers are thought obligated to lie prone, single file, so as to form a human walkway over which the masses may pass without the unnecessary scuffing of any Manolos.
Does that about sum it up?
paul006 on December 21, 2007 at 12:25 AM
Hmm not sure what’s wrong with the video. Once it reaches 0:50 it keeps looping back to 0:45
- The Cat
P.S. She can Taz me anytime.
MirCat on December 21, 2007 at 1:16 AM
Just say “no” to N.O.
Mojave Mark on December 21, 2007 at 1:28 AM
amerpundit was referring to the guy in the video who described it as police brutality.
Oh, and thanks for throwing us all under the bus while you were at it.
TexasDan on December 21, 2007 at 1:33 AM
No, you just have longer posts. Need to tighten those babies up, dude. Nobody reads ‘em.
TexasDan on December 21, 2007 at 1:35 AM
that’s why i’m pinning the protests on the rcp. they were the group behind the coalition to save public housing pre-911.
jummy on December 21, 2007 at 3:28 AM