The media has been busy the last couple of days with their incessant brain washing. What are today's buzz words? "Head stomp".
High atop the pyramid, the media begins its mantra, only to be dutifully repeatedly by the rest of America.
Did in fact Lauren Valle get her "head stomped"? Did she get "stomped" at all?
Let's take a moment to review the video and analyze what really happened.
At :18 :
Someone's hand can be seen removing Lauren's wig. The "gentleman" with the green hat ("the squisher") has grabbed Lauren and actually seems to trip
over himself as he is pulling/pushing/wrestling her to the ground.
The other "gentleman" in the black shirt ("the smoosher") also has one hand on her and seems to be "assisting".
While trying to restrain her, they are calling for the police.
From :19 to :22 :
"The squisher" has Lauren on the ground and squishes her exactly two times, once with a hand on her boob (does not appear to be a deliberate act of
sexual perversion) and shoulder, and then again with both hands on her shoulder.
An "older" gentlewoman with a relatively large rear-end enters the frame and can be heard saying "you are kidding me, what are you doing,
garble (possibly said stop).
By the :22 second mark, "the squisher" can no longer be seen. It would appear that the ample bootied gentlewoman has single handedly thwarted "the
squisher" in approximately 1.5 seconds.
From :23 to :25 :
With Lauren still on the ground, "the smoosher" literally puts his sneaker on Lauren's shoulder and then pushes down, resulting in a single smooshing,
at which point someone immediately says "no no no no come on". By :26, "the smoosher" has already begun to move away.
The entire incident began and ended within 7 seconds. By no stretch of the imagination could this incident be accurately described as a "stomping"
and clearly had nothing to do with her head.
edit on 29-10-2010 by gladtobehere because: (no reason given)
I have to laugh at people trying to defend this guy and then adding a jab at the "liberal media (owned by rich conservatives)" for causing it.
He stepped on her shoulder and his foot slid down off her shoulder onto her head. Watch it. He was pissed off at these damn liberals and he stomped
her when he thought he could. Case closed.
edit: I said foot, it is actually his heel that stomped her head and ear. So were charges filed against him?
edit on Fri October 29th, 2010 by
damwel because: (no reason given)
Yes charges of assault have been filed against Tim Profitt. (AKA Stompy, McStomperson)
Profitt, who has been charged with assault, continued to blame police. "Well I'll just say it, if the police had done what they were supposed to
do, it would have never happened," Profitt told WKYT. Earlier, he told the Associated Press that his friend had asked police officers to arrest
Valle. "A friend of mine went up to three policeman before Rand got there and told them about the girl who was standing there with that wig on and
that she was getting ready to do something," Profitt told the Associated Press. "The policemen looked at him and said, 'That's not our job.'
"
The police are right in this case, it's not the police's job to stop someone from expressing their right of freedom of speech. When she shoved her
sign in the car, the police could have done something about that, but until point, she was exercising her constitutionally protected right of freedom
of speech. Much to the dismay of Right Wingers like Tim Profitt, who apparently have a major problem with people having the 1st Amendment and would
like to take that right away from people through force.
What happened? My opinion on what happened is modern politics in the USA. We have people on both sides that are "brainwashed" (for lack of a
better term) that they're views are the only correct views. these people are very passionate about the views they endorse and will not listen to
another view. I guess IMO we have a matter of 2 wrongs still dont make a right.
This is an absolutely easy case to assign legal blame to. The MoveOn activist, while there to get unflattering pictures and otherwise infiltrate or
possibly disrupt the Rand Paul rally, was assaulted before she herself did anything illegal.
I really don't care if the man tried to put his heel into her back or her head, throwing someone to the ground and stepping on them in any way is in
fact an assault. It could have been her little toe for all I care, it's still illegal. What the MoveOn operative did was uncouth to be sure, but
it was, to the point she was assaulted, fully legal.
To defend the attack and somehow try to claim that the Rand Paul supporter was in the right is just idiotic, a law was indeed broken here.
Originally posted by digby888
i thaught the usa was all about free speech without getting attacked for it
Well, thats what the US is supposed to be about, but to characterize Lauren Valle as a victim who was simply trying to exercise her Constitutionally
protected right of free speech is not accurate.