Don't Taze Me, Council Member!
Police brutality week continues …
By Wells Dunbar, 12:10PM, Thu. Sep. 20, 2007
Why can't our City Council meetings end like this? Says NBC affiliate WNDU in Roseland, Indiana:
(City Council member) David Snyder was put in jail after (he) was ejected from a budget meeting Friday night, before being taken to the ground outside by a Roseland police officer.
The melee started because David Snyder protested after being given only one minute to speak by council member Charlie Shields. After a heated argument, laced with profanities, Shields kicked Snyder from the meeting.
Snyder slowly walked from the meeting, escorted by Officer Jack Tiller. When he got into the lobby, turned and said something to Tiller who appears to shove Snyder who falls hard into the glass door and outside (sic).
The entire incident is on video here.
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