Did Columbia police officers use excessive force in arresting Lee Martin?

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467 Votes

Did Columbia police officers use excessive force in arresting Lee Martin?

50%

Yes Yes

50%

No No

50%

Yes

A video shows an officer punching the man in the head while he is on the ground.

A video shows an officer punching the man in the head while he is on the ground. Show Less

4 Comments

Shane H

Not so much excessive force but literally punching somebody while they are already down. In the face. Unnecessary and uncalled for force was used

Jamera Payne

Although he was resisting arrest. Beating him in face was unnecessary.

Jamera Payne

Although he was resisting arrest. He should not have got beat in his face.

Jamie campbell

They were wrong in using that kind of force.

50%

No

A lawyer for the officers said Martin resisted arrest and hinted that he was violent.

A lawyer for the officers said Martin resisted arrest and hinted that he was violent. Show Less

3 Comments

Amanda Bates

The man was resisting and not complying. The officers tried other tactics to try to subdue the man.

Max DeYoung

Just what do you do with a person who is not fazed by a taser, and continues to attack two LEOs? Write them a ticket for disorderly conduct?

Will Mason

They should have just backed off and tazed him. With 2020 hindsight, that is what I would have done.

Should the U.S. military step up operations in Venezuela or pull back?

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289 Votes

Should the U.S. military step up operations in Venezuela or pull back?

35%

Step it up Step it up

65%

We should stop We should stop

35%

Step it up

2 Comments

Eric Smith

What the do on their soil, is their business, but once their drugs are out on boats in the big beautiful Gulf of America, blow them out of the water.

Max

We have plenty of drugs as it is.

65%

We should stop

1 Comment

Toasty

We're not the world's police and we executed those people in cold blood. If Venezuela wants to kill its citizens without proof and without a trial, then leave the US out of it.

Max

Venezuela is helping the companies that make Narcan.

What do you think of demolishing part of the White House to build a ballroom?

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473 Votes

What do you think of demolishing part of the White House to build a ballroom?

40%

It doesn't bother me It doesn't bother me

60%

I don't like it I don't like it

40%

It doesn't bother me

4 Comments

Carol Backe

I think if it were Obama, nothing would be said about it. I think just because it’s President Trump there is the hate that some have for him. Not this much controversy when all the other changes were done by other presidents. None of this is costing taxpayers as it has in the past.

Fred

Please provide an example of such an expansive change ... this ballroom is likely to turn out to be larger than the White House itself! I don't doubt we'll see a TRUMP sign on it before it is finished!

Max

Trump is improving the White House, and he is using private funding to do that.

Fred

Right ... "private funding" in exchange for pardons and other favors. The more accurate description is BRIBES.

Kenneth Young

Separation of the rich and poor is getting wider. I was never invited to watch a movie in the movie room just like I'll never be invited to any dances.....I think we'd be better off if they tore down the west wing

Eric Smith

Big Beautiful White House

60%

I don't like it

2 Comments

Chris Macy

STOP THIS MANIAC!!!

Kelly Branstetter

It's history, it's respect and honor, the ballroom was never approved and the drawings show it overshadowing the White House itself. Awful

ABC 17 News

Did Columbia police officers use excessive force in arresting Lee Martin?

50% Yes Yes

50% No No

50% Yes

50% No

Should the U.S. military step up operations in Venezuela or pull back?

35% Step it up Step it up

65% We should stop We should stop

35% Step it up

65% We should stop

What do you think of demolishing part of the White House to build a ballroom?

40% It doesn't bother me It doesn't bother me

60% I don't like it I don't like it

40% It doesn't bother me

60% I don't like it

50%

Yes Yes

50%

No No

50%

Yes

50%

No

35%

Step it up Step it up

65%

We should stop We should stop

35%

Step it up

65%

We should stop

40%

It doesn't bother me It doesn't bother me

60%

I don't like it I don't like it

40%

It doesn't bother me

60%

I don't like it