{"id":3230,"date":"2006-11-17T23:50:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-17T23:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jordanhthonextract2.wordpress.com\/2006\/11\/17\/video-of-ucla-tasering-incident"},"modified":"2011-09-23T04:00:05","modified_gmt":"2011-09-23T04:00:05","slug":"video-of-ucla-tasering-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/video-of-ucla-tasering-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"Video of UCLA Tasering Incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m posting this because it&#8217;s absolutely horrifying, and because it&#8217;s germaine to the site: critics of horror movies and violent video games etc. are constantly remarking that violent entertainment &#8220;desensitizes&#8221; people to actual violence. I say bullshit (and always have) and I offer as a case in point the just-posted You-tube video of the UCLA tasering incident, in which an American college student with a muslim-sounding name and dark skin is tasered by campus security once he&#8217;s been handcuffed. The video (which I offer without the slightest trace of &#8220;voyeuristic intention&#8221; as Magenta put it in Rocky Horror) still has me shaking, because the screams are real.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s different when it&#8217;s real. Even we, who enthusiastically devour bloody movies at the rate of hundreds a month (if we get to pick the month) understand this. Link to the YouTube <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AyvrqcxNIFs&amp;eurl=\">video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Here&#8217;s your fucking Patriot Act!&#8221; he screams. Absolutely terrifying.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/17244873-116380773178025646?l=horrorthon.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m posting this because it&#8217;s absolutely horrifying, and because it&#8217;s germaine to the site: critics of horror movies and violent video games etc. are constantly remarking that violent entertainment &#8220;desensitizes&#8221; people to actual violence. I say bullshit (and always have) and I offer as a case in point the just-posted You-tube video of the UCLA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horrorthon_posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3230"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41366,"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3230\/revisions\/41366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}