Video: Proud Jets Fan Removed from Chargers Game in Handcuffs

It's unclear what this exuberant Jets fan did to provoke his arrest during the third quarter of Sunday's Jets-Chargers game in San Diego, when his team was still behind. It could be there was some rowdy behavior that ended up on the cutting room floor, but all we see in this video is a swarm of security guards and cops taking him away in handcuffs—and it's telling that all the Chargers fans around him seem pretty outraged by the ejection. (High five to the guy chanting "Attica! Attica" at the 50 second mark.)

The person who posted the video on YouTube writes, "This guy was obnoxious but didn't deserve to be arrested. In fact moments before this this woman in a wheelchair asked him to come down and she slapped him in the face and said shut the F*** up. He did nothing and just walked back to his seat with his wife. This may have premeditated the police to come down in the first place. So i guess insult to injury... slapped in the face and yanked before he saw his team come back and win."

One man in the row ahead of Jets fan can be heard yelling at the rent-a-cops, "He didn't do anything! You have no right to arrest him! Just because you have a badge, you do not have that right!" Of course, that's exactly what that badge gives police the right to do. Then we have the right to sue for lots of taxpayer money, like that Red Sox fan did after getting bounced from Yankee stadium for trying to use the restroom during "God Bless America." See, the system works, and defense attorneys are standing by!

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By John Del Signore in Miscellaneous on January 19, 2010 11:26 AM

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jaycjay

"can be heard yelling at the rent-a-cops"

They're not "rent-a-cops." The uniform patches clearly identify them as San Diego Police.

chris lee

These stadiums are just another face of the pro-war fascist police state anyway.

whitecastlerock

ACAB

Sinchy

I saw this on a blog called the agitator by Radley Balko.

http://www.theagitator.com/

This blog is required reading for anyone concerned about police brutality, abuse, lying and the trampling of our civil rights.

He is a libertarian, and while I think that particular ideology is often wrong on many issues, they have it right on the premise that America can be viewed as a police state.

As far as that video, if the chargers fans are saying the Jets fan did nothing wrong, then certainly he was being ejected on false grounds.

themercenary

The Agitator is awesome.I usually think libertarians are kind of jack asses, but they are right on about the expansion of police powers in this country. Security theater and the zero tolerance movements have criminalized ordinary people who aren't doing anything wrong. However, they have the guns so it is going to be tough to roll back the power of the punishment state.

Wza

Shoutout to the San Diego fans for defending the guy. That definitely would not have happened in NY/NJ.

books

we've been coyed into being obediate no matter what the circumstances are, lest you get tased and arrested.

where this gets us is a goverment is that they can wage an illegal immoral war and people keep going to work like nothings happened. The bankers can steal our retirement money while telling us we cant afford healthcare and everybodys just moans as they walk all over us.

What are you going to do? You go outside the line. You get tased. you get beat down. we need to start glorfiying the people who do stand up the system, I'm sick of being surrounded by so many sheep.

schadenfreudian mensch

That's only because they have their iSheep headphones plugged into their ears to block out the screams. Baaaa Baaaa.

FelixtheCat & Christine Quinn'

What they did to the second guy was dead wrong. he isn't allow to talk? the hell is that about?

hotstepper

Jets Jets!!

Attica Attica!!

Velvet Velvet!!

PTG in nyc

This guy and naked wizard from Coachella need to team up and teach those SoCal pigs a lesson.

At least Jets fan didn't get tased (multiple times), if that's something worth being thankful for.

schadenfreudian mensch

You pretty much have no rights once you enter a private establishment and to top it off you're paying for someone (cops) to take your rights away. Yeh!