I was about to leave for work this morning when I found this post by Blake Ross on the tasering of a UCLA student for not showing proper ID (and being generally unresponsive to police requests). It’s really sobering and the YouTube video is sickening. I really don’t know who is at fault here, or how to gauge this… but I do think its worth bringing peoples’ attention to it. The Memeorandum coverage is available at this timestamped version of the page.

YouTube is very powerful. Even if all the copyrighted material is removed from the site, YouTube will live on strong as a political forum for eye-witness video. First “Macaca,” and now this tasering… YouTube will continue to play an increasingly larger role in our political conversation.