Tiberius and the Roman Empire

When Tiberius was elected tribune, he simply made his pitch to the people and figured the rest would take care of itself. By law, any one of his tribuneate colleagues could veto the measure; it had just been a long-standing working custom. No amount of fist-pumping, or hand-ringing, or demagoguery could change the immutable fact that if another tribune vetoed a proposal, it was a dead issue. So Tiberius ordered his supporters to physically remove Octavius so he could no longer hinder proceedings.