Original story This is a pretty extreme case, but it's going to take a few police officers in jail to make cops think twice about how they use their supposedly non-lethal weapons.
See! The non-lethal stuff is indeed dangerous! Now if he had kicked him, to get up, he would only have slight bruising to the ribs/head. You can bet if that was a gun, it wouldn't have gone that route at all. The cops brainwashing, that his non-lethal subduing device is indeed lethal with repeat, is a real error on the side of the department and the cops ability to understand its impact on the body. Sad really...
They should tase him 9 times repeatedly with 50,000v and see how he likes it. Bloody revolting. It's so unnecessary, you do it once, twice MAYBE.. but wth you need to do it 9 times for? Sheesh. Granted, ideally, you shouldn't do it at all..
You can just see where it all went wrong: - Why was one of the arresting officers on active duty when he had just come back to the police department from triple bypass surgery? - Why would a 247-pound man with hands handcuffed behind his back not have trouble getting up? - Why could the police officers not simply have let him get up in his own good time or call for backup to help physically lift the man? - Why was he tasered to get up --something that is known to cause paralysis and disorientation? - Why was he tasered once in the back of the police car? What was he going to do? - Why taser a man directly against his chest-- a sure-fire way to induce a cardiac arrest? It all sounds like lame excuses. Police brutality if there ever was a case. Put the guy on trial for murder.
^ +2 I can't see any reason why this guy shouldn't be on trial for murder. What he did is simple inexcusable. -monkey
"This has come down to a police officer that was trying to apprehend a suspect that they had warrants for," he said. "He done what he thought he was trained to do to bring that subject into custody. At some point, something happened with his body that caused him to go into cardiac arrest or whatever." I think that's an absolutely fantastic quote. I agree, put him on trial for murder, then give his Lieutenant a couple good tasings to perhaps rethink his view of the situation.
indeed, Nexxo has it (as always) spot on. my thoughts exactly. I remember here in NZ when a video surfaced on nation wide news of a hand cuffed man on the ground surrounded by about 6 police officers was tasered 2 or 3 times for no apparent reason. I'm pretty sure they officer to do that was fired and had to pay damages. this cop in the article above should be trialed for man slaughter at least, and IMO should be charged with murder along with the several other charges associated with serious breach or procedure resulting in death of a handcuffed and subdued criminal.
Once should be enough, the guy was not going anywhere. That (ex)cop is just a twisted person that clearly likes hurting people.
QFT. Obviously, he went WAY too damn far. Murder trail? Definitely IMO. There is abusing the position, then there is plain, cold-blooded murder.
If I understand the article correctly, the suspect was already subdued and handcuffed. There was no need to use the taser at all, in my opinion. -monkey
Can you please explain your position? Either provide some real reason or can the anti-American crap, please. -monkey
Was he high on cocaine??? that with the tasering could have sent him into cardiac arrest Nexxo is spot on
According to the article, he was negative for drugs. There is another biological process (the name of which escapes me at the moment) in which the muscle spasms caused by the taser, along with increased oxygen demand from being agitated lead to hypoxia, arrythmias and death.
You can find the many threads in the general forum if you want, I've made a few. And your coppers in the US are shocking, yes not all of them, most likely a minority, but an american + taser + power + pistol = An american who thinks they are the ****. It's true.
Stop trolling. I can tell you stories about cops in the UK and the Netherlands. And you don't even think of messing with Italian or Portugese ones. But they're all stereotypes. Being an asshole is an equal opportunities employer and you find some in any profession. Personally, I wouldn't want to be a cop in a country where any civilian can walk into a shop and buy a gun. There's a reason why British bobbies can generally afford to walk around unarmed.
As Nexxo says, stereotyping a profession or nationality based on the actions of a few is the road to epic fail. For instance, while there have been plenty of negative articles in the press recently of UK police misusing firearms and 'less-lethal' ordnance, it's worth mentioning a recent article where the police went above and beyond: Extract from: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/surrey/7522722.stm
