Video: Campus police brutalize Coulter protester by, um, arresting him
posted at 3:33 pm on February 26, 2009 by Allahpundit
Via Gutfeld, driven to a fugue state of violent rage by a week’s worth of whining from college-aged progressives. Hot on the heels of the immortal “NYU Alamo” clip comes this harrowing vid of a protester at Coulter’s speech to the College of New Jersey being horribly … handcuffed and led out. To set the scene:
The police report from that night says that Tracey went onto the stage, where Coulter was signing books.
After being advised the stage area was for those with books only, Tracey said he had a piece of paper and wanted an autograph.
“When he was told no, he went around two police officers and approached the table where Ann Coulter was sitting,” Holt wrote.
Holt took Tracey off the stage and into the seating area, then told the student he was not allowed to go back to the stage and had to leave.
As Tracey walked back towards the stage, Holt grabbed Tracey’s coat in an attempt to stop him, but said Tracey spun out of the coat and ran towards the seating area.
Tackling Tracey toward the ground, Holt attempted to handcuff Tracey, but the young man would not put his hands behind his back.
Surprise: After initially threatening a lawsuit, he’s now decided against it. And surprise again: Apparently, he’s the vice president of the campus’s College Democrats.
Brace yourself. You’ve never seen police conduct like this before. Unless you’ve ever seen anyone arrested before.
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Squealing like a little girl….typical Democrat.
BigAnge on February 26, 2009 at 3:35 PM
This is just the beginning.
The Age of O.
Starlink on February 26, 2009 at 3:36 PM
Didn’t this cop know about the consensus?
patriette on February 26, 2009 at 3:36 PM
Comedy gold!
echosyst on February 26, 2009 at 3:37 PM
If this had been a conservative protesting an appearance by Obama there would be 500+ posts talking about “Dear Leader” and his totalitarian regime. Instead there will be a bunch of posts thrilled and rooting on the police as they take down who dares to respond to Coulter’s vile poison.
DeathToMediaHacks on February 26, 2009 at 3:37 PM
Typical leftist whining!
stonemeister on February 26, 2009 at 3:37 PM
Stupid corporate water drinkin’ pig.
BadgerHawk on February 26, 2009 at 3:37 PM
DON’T TAZE ME BRO!
cornfedbubba on February 26, 2009 at 3:37 PM
Wow! Can I buy pot from you?
stonemeister on February 26, 2009 at 3:38 PM
Holt was overheard just prior to the arrest asking his fellow officers, “Who wants to be the facilitator?”
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Christien on February 26, 2009 at 3:38 PM
Don’t Taze me, bro!!!!
UltimateBob on February 26, 2009 at 3:39 PM
hmmm… gotta get that scream as a ringtone, too.
Mazztek on February 26, 2009 at 3:39 PM
Expel the little b*stard. I’m sick and tired of these whiny brats trying to act like they’re “revolutionaries.” They wouldn’t last a minute in a real fight.
rbj on February 26, 2009 at 3:39 PM
Darn, Bubba! Ya beat me to it!
UltimateBob on February 26, 2009 at 3:39 PM
I love when these rejects scream for help when theyre gettin busted, who the hell do they think is going to come rushing to their aid. Bozos.
Viper1 on February 26, 2009 at 3:39 PM
If someone had tried to rush the stage during an Obama appearance we’d all be satisfied by the secret service tackling him and putting the guy in cuffs.
Bad example.
BadgerHawk on February 26, 2009 at 3:40 PM
Wow. That was a pretty empty hall. An the lone person clapping at the end. How many people were at this thing?
portlandon on February 26, 2009 at 3:40 PM
Why would this whining child need to run up to Coulter, how is that responding to her “vile poison”??
MDWNJ on February 26, 2009 at 3:40 PM
No , death* sniffs glue.
the_nile on February 26, 2009 at 3:40 PM
This guy puts on a show better than most four year old kids.
Coulter came here last spring semester, and all the “progressives” had a tolerance zone and week. The funny thing was, the guy who organized it wanted her right to speak silenced by taking the funding away from the event. They also ran candidates for the student board to make sure this would never happen again. What a joke.
theboss on February 26, 2009 at 3:40 PM
DON’T TASE ME, BRO!GET OFF MY HEAD!Christien on February 26, 2009 at 3:41 PM
Oh, the horror………the horror…….
NC Cop on February 26, 2009 at 3:41 PM
Well you wont see that will you, why you may query your little brain? because Conservatives act like human beings and not animals. Get a life loser.
Viper1 on February 26, 2009 at 3:42 PM
Boy I am thrilled! I felt a tingle go up my leg watching that video. I am rooting for the police to get that Democrat out of there and give him a swift kick in the groin. Then take money out of his wallet and give the money to another person who is more needy than him.WashJeff on February 26, 2009 at 3:42 PM
Ala NYU protestors:
“Wait…wait…before you brutalize me we need to come to a consensus and negotiate on this issue!!”
Ooops, I guess this guy like the protestors at NYU didn’t realize it wasn’t a negotiation!
I love it when ignorant lefty trolls get a dose of reality!
Liberty or Death on February 26, 2009 at 3:42 PM
Just like all the conservatives that tried to shout down Obama on the campaign trail. You remember them, right?
CDeb on February 26, 2009 at 3:43 PM
No one is saying this kid can’t respond. The issue was that this kid was PHYSICALLY trying to disrupt a Coulter presentation.
You need to learn the difference between free speech and shouting down the rights of others to voice their opinions.
patriette on February 26, 2009 at 3:43 PM
What college administrator is going to get fired for screwing up, and letting a Conservative on the campus?
Aren’t there rules against this? Hasn’t the University Politburo made it known that no Conservatives are allowed?
OhEssYouCowboys on February 26, 2009 at 3:43 PM
“Responding” to Coulter’s message is one thing, rushing the stage and leading the police to believe he might mean harm is a different matter. “Get off my head.” Crack me up.
fanofamerica on February 26, 2009 at 3:43 PM
Should have splattered his brains against the wall.
PimFortuynsGhost on February 26, 2009 at 3:43 PM
I have to admit, Coulter’s words are as poison to the propagandists on the left. The truth is the best disinfectant. It kills the vermin, just like a “vile poison”.
stonemeister on February 26, 2009 at 3:43 PM
Keep the video footage coming, Wingnuts!
The Office is back to re-runs, so I need something to entertain me.
Glenn Jericho on February 26, 2009 at 3:44 PM
That was totally on purpose.
capitalist piglet on February 26, 2009 at 3:44 PM
Obama’s the President of the United States. If someone jumped around the police barriers and ran towards him, he’d be lucky if being tackled is the worst that happened. And he’d deserve it.
I have a problem with somebody in Oklahoma City with an obvious pro-life, anti-Obama pun on his bumpersticker having his house searched by the Secret Service and property of his seized. No common sense was used in that situation. And even the police chief recognized that.
amerpundit on February 26, 2009 at 3:45 PM
Welcome to “free speech” as the Left views it….holding to themselves the absolute right to shout down, disrupt, prevent, obstruct, ban, and attack any speaker with whom they disagree….this is getting old, and maybe these nitwits need to learn that free speech, and the First Amendment, was designed so that voices that one dislikes are allowed to be heard, whether it is railing against the injustices of The Crown, or bad government, or seemingly stupid ideas…
On the take down side…What? No facilitators? No special consensus area?
He’s a college Democrat?
This is soooo like, ya know,last week. /s
[Funny, too...]
coldwarrior on February 26, 2009 at 3:45 PM
Hey, Jeff, how did you change the font?
stonemeister on February 26, 2009 at 3:45 PM
Pig? or Man?
faraway on February 26, 2009 at 3:45 PM
Heh, he cries like a little girly man…meh they don’t make protestors like they used to, at least back in the day protestors didn’t start crying until they got hit in the head with a police baton!
Also, this guy won’t be getting any awards for his crappy acting!
Liberty or Death on February 26, 2009 at 3:45 PM
First time someone lays a hand on him and he’s down on the floor squealing like a stuck pig. That’s all it took to take the fire out of him. Because of the “brutal” treatment he’s done being a community organizer and gives up.
The upcoming Revolution may be a lot easier than you think if this guy is any indication of what we’ll meet on the battlegrounds.
Guardian on February 26, 2009 at 3:45 PM
Too funny!
Conservative_SAHM on February 26, 2009 at 3:45 PM
Allah, why don’t you write that he screams hysterically like a little girl? I almost didn’t watch!
That was almost as much fun as the “corporate water” video and even more viscerally satisfying.
What a bitchy little drama queen that kid is. Hahahahahaha!
Kensington on February 26, 2009 at 3:46 PM
Oscar worthy. Made me cry.
faraway on February 26, 2009 at 3:46 PM
I was thinking the same thing – that tactic must have worked on his parents.
Victim, right?
Otis B on February 26, 2009 at 3:46 PM
Too far.
Death…I don’t see conservatives acting this way during Moore’s speeches, Jello Biafria’s speeches, Nader’s Speeches, Angel Davis’ speeches, Chomsky’s speeches, Ward Churchill’s speeches and other liberal talking heads. I guess I would rather engage in ideas with a sense of decorum rather than engage in pie throwing, shout-downs, and irrational moronic behavior that we see quite frequently from the left.
theboss on February 26, 2009 at 3:47 PM
Not only should they taze him, they should be him down with their batons!
HornetSting on February 26, 2009 at 3:47 PM
There must not have been a consensus. Show campus ID or don’t show campus ID.
He was probably squirming therefore resisting arrest. Hence why it hurt pansy boy.
Jeez if an officer says you’re under arrest you comply and then it doesn’t hurt.
theguardianii on February 26, 2009 at 3:48 PM
If the pinhead had stayed in the seating area, he could’ve ranted till the cows came home and never been arrested. They told him the stage was off limits but he tried to get on the stage.
I guess he missed the class where they teach that actions have consequences.
BacaDog on February 26, 2009 at 3:48 PM
Those cops had BETTER not use corporate water when they waterboard a confession out of him.
Ken McCracken on February 26, 2009 at 3:48 PM
Here’s a picture of the moron.
He also wrote a diary on Krazy Kos last week.
IrishEi on February 26, 2009 at 3:48 PM
I know its old, but very appropriate……http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/blcrybaby.htm
MDWNJ on February 26, 2009 at 3:48 PM
If a conservative protester tried to muscle his way past the Secret Service, spinning out of someone’s grip to get to Obama, and he got handcuffed (oooh, torture! Brutality!), do you honestly believe there would be a single person here defending him?
capitalist piglet on February 26, 2009 at 3:49 PM
Maybe if his parents had taken him to the floor a few times, instead of giving him “times outs” and promises of nice things if he was good…maybe he’d have learned a few things about decorum, basic civility, that sort of thing, you know, the kind of stuff that appears totally absent on the left?
coldwarrior on February 26, 2009 at 3:49 PM
Even the Palestinians would have found the acting a little over the top.
thuja on February 26, 2009 at 3:49 PM
It’s sad that you continually embarrass yourself.
Josiah on February 26, 2009 at 3:49 PM
Dude needs to learn how to use a q-tip, after getting out of the shower.
MDWNJ on February 26, 2009 at 3:50 PM
He went on the stage twice, after explicitly being told not to. Responding to Coulter doesn’t exempt you from the rules.
I like the melodrama of “take down,” too, as though they shot him in the kneecaps or something. He resisted, they put him on his stomach, and they arrested him. Happens thousands of times a day.
Allahpundit on February 26, 2009 at 3:50 PM
?
AubieJon on February 26, 2009 at 3:50 PM
The left seem to think they are only allowed free speech.
They can rush the stage of a writer, but we are not allowed to criticize the dear leader.
becki51758 on February 26, 2009 at 3:50 PM
Sure we have. Oh wait.
spmat on February 26, 2009 at 3:50 PM
I am using the html tag code.
Put something in the em (emphasis tag) than replace ‘em’ with ‘code’.
this is sarchasmWashJeff on February 26, 2009 at 3:50 PM
That’s a liberal for you….whine, whine whine…. poor thing – I hope they didn’t mess his hair or pull out one of his earrings. Gosh. He’s so delicate!
afotia on February 26, 2009 at 3:50 PM
Coming from someone who loves and agrees Rev. Wright. Yawn. Get back to us when you’ve got some cells working in that head of yours. You know, the thinking kind?
roopster217 on February 26, 2009 at 3:51 PM
Nope. Not her, Aubie.
BacaDog on February 26, 2009 at 3:51 PM
Does anyone else understand why this wouldn’t have worked? Anyone? Anyone?
Kensington on February 26, 2009 at 3:52 PM
The spanking he really needed twenty years late.
Durham68 on February 26, 2009 at 3:52 PM
Exactly. A timely scream of “Don’t tase me bro” was all that was missing. Excellent video! Are they planning more of these faux brutality demonstrations?
Terri on February 26, 2009 at 3:52 PM
“Protesting” doesn’t mean running up on stage. He could have stayed in the seating area and shouted. He got tackled, rightly so, because he appeared to threaten bodily contact by running up on stage and not leaving when they told him to. Get over yourself, you libtard.
tickleddragon on February 26, 2009 at 3:52 PM
GET OFF MY HEAD!!
LMAO
Kevin43 on February 26, 2009 at 3:52 PM
Looks like he has Swine Flu
faraway on February 26, 2009 at 3:52 PM
As Carlin once eluded to, this is just another example of the pussification of America.
token on February 26, 2009 at 3:52 PM
I wish I had a video t-shirt so I could walk around playing that video on my chest, that’s just amazing.
galenrox on February 26, 2009 at 3:52 PM
O, if only!
Kensington on February 26, 2009 at 3:52 PM
Unless it was sarcasm, I think you were talking of someone being killed.
theboss on February 26, 2009 at 3:53 PM
waa… nothing to see but a whiny little girl.. er.. I mean boy. Move on.
upinak on February 26, 2009 at 3:53 PM
And some morons here were worried about Joe the Plumber.
faraway on February 26, 2009 at 3:53 PM
So….by your logic it would be okay for someone to physically attack you because they hold your values to be vile? Or are those values only allowed to be judged by the left?
genso on February 26, 2009 at 3:53 PM
LOL. I have yet to meet a Democrat who didn’t think was a complete laughable wuss.
Norwegian on February 26, 2009 at 3:53 PM
You, sir, have just found your vehicle out of the recession. Get a patent!
Kensington on February 26, 2009 at 3:53 PM
I hope that his IUD wasn’t dislodged, during the ruckus. I’d hate for him to be able to get pregnant and hatch another Socialist cockroach.
OhEssYouCowboys on February 26, 2009 at 3:53 PM
We really don’t need these sorts of comments. Under no circumstances, did this moron need to be killed. You’re just playing into idiot sentiments like DeathtoMediaHacks’.
tickleddragon on February 26, 2009 at 3:54 PM
coldwarrior on February 26, 2009 at 3:49 PM
I remember when we had our first child, in the late 80s, and spanking was considered “improper.” This was about the time Doctor Spock came out with his book, and we were all lectured about the “proper” way to raise a child.
It seems surreal to me now to see how that played out, thirty years on.
Otis B on February 26, 2009 at 3:54 PM
What brains? He’s an Obama voter.
Good Lt on February 26, 2009 at 3:54 PM
Slow news day?
SilverStar830 on February 26, 2009 at 3:54 PM
The TRUTH IS POISON to liberal crackheads like you, Hacks.
HornetSting on February 26, 2009 at 3:54 PM
Considering Ann has been assaulted on other campuses, and it has become a sort of game for libs to try to attack her, it’s pretty awful that anyone objects to the police taking reasonable action in this instance.
What should they have done? Wear earmuffs?
Christien on February 26, 2009 at 3:54 PM
Word. Talk about setting up a straw man.
exlibris on February 26, 2009 at 3:55 PM
I know! And maybe some nose hair clippers too.
Did you notice the massive injuries to his face?
Here’s a picture of the torture marks on his wrists. The dude needs a trauma surgeon. Stat.
IrishEi on February 26, 2009 at 3:55 PM
Dang! I was gonna ask for her e-autograph.
AubieJon on February 26, 2009 at 3:56 PM
That’s how it’ll be spun.
Snowed In on February 26, 2009 at 3:56 PM
Seriously that dude is pathetic. If you don’t want to be on the floor, cooperate with Mr. Policeman’s orders.
If curly HAD gotten close to Coulter, then what? I’m sure he was attempting to unveil her inferior intellect through some brilliant argument like “you have an adam’s apple”. And that’s if he’s one of the REALLY smart libs, the others just throw stuff.
hawksruleva on February 26, 2009 at 3:56 PM
The police certainly gave him enough chances.
Blake on February 26, 2009 at 3:56 PM
Dude. It’s a joke. Let me explain. The first poster said his brains should have been splattered. I asked, in response, if anyone else understood why that wouldn’t work?
The answer? No brains. Get it? A joke! With teh funny and everything.
Kensington on February 26, 2009 at 3:56 PM
Pussy poseur.
Itchee Dryback on February 26, 2009 at 3:56 PM
Ever thus to wankers like that wuss.
HuskerNate on February 26, 2009 at 3:56 PM
Do I have to say it?
CurtZHP on February 26, 2009 at 3:56 PM
Big. Girls. Blouse.
LimeyGeek on February 26, 2009 at 3:56 PM
Yep, I posted earlier he won’t be winning any awards for his crappy acting!
Heh, good one! Well just to be sure the police don’t further trample this douche bags rights and further brutalize him I hope they allowed him time to come to a consensus and negotiate his position before they waterboarded him with corporate water!
Liberty or Death on February 26, 2009 at 3:57 PM
Rules are only for people who don’t feel strongly about what they want, remember?
Oh yeah, and as long as they’re leftists.
NoDonkey on February 26, 2009 at 3:57 PM
Snowed In on February 26, 2009 at 3:56 PM
Yeah, that’s how he’s working it, too – “help, help, I’m being repressed!”
Obscene.
Otis B on February 26, 2009 at 3:57 PM
Ha.. Yeah, he better apply for disability. I have got worse injuries playing with my 120lb golden retriever. What a wuss. Hope this guy isn’t from our area of NJ.
MDWNJ on February 26, 2009 at 3:58 PM
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