Originally posted by Gaviani
As an addendum, you know what tips the balance for me? When he shouts out, "Here's your fucking PATRIOT Act." Nothing involved in his situation had ANYTHING to do with the PATRIOT Act, whatsoever - in fact, if PATRIOT was invalidated 24 hours prior, nothing about this scene, as it was acted, would have been different. To me, that screams that he had a prior, pre-conceived agenda going into this scenario, a message he wanted to generate, and he happened to use the campus and officers in question in order to generate publicity for that message.
This still doesn't excuse the use of excessive force.