Yet another police abusing his power

[Seppo]

Ok maybe the driver was asking for it, but there was no need to use the tazer. Sometimes I think cops are actually robots.

http://www.break.com/index/driver-gets-tazed-for-being-slow1.html

1: "You're under arrest and going to jail"
2: "Under arrest in jail for what?"
1: "For failing to give me your driver's license"

Jackass police

 

[Druckles]

Urgh. That's horrific. Don't people actually have any curtesy??

 

[Irksome]

lol @ Some of the comments left on that site...apparently she had it coming for being a "hardass"...I didn't realize saying "Whoa whoa whoa" made you a hardass.

 

[jondy]

Heavy.

 

[Seppo]

lol @ Some of the comments left on that site...apparently she had it coming for being a "hardass"...I didn't realize saying "Whoa whoa whoa" made you a hardass.

ah yes, Break.com users are known for their intelligent and insightful analysis

 

[nurizeko]

Wow....so, a cop comes up, gives a hostile attitude, doesn't even give the driver a chance to you know, comply, tazes them, then treats them like dirt and they sit on the ground trying to reason with him in a calm voice?.


Yeah, real big crook that.

All I can say is I am glad I don't have to deal with that stuff, those US power tripping cops need to be dealt with, I mean, thats just.....coming from my point of view understand, thats just...wow....yeah, really.....needless?.

I mean, fair enough, I don't expect a cop to be my best mate, British cops aren't pushovers, but to get tazed for nothing, because apparently the cop couldn't wait 40 seconds to get the driving license....pretty nutz.


http://www.break.com/index/dude-tazered-for-not-signing-ticket.html

Seriously America, sort this shit out....

 

[Raziaar]

Wow, I wish a cop would taze me like that and I have a video as damning as that.

I mean, it's perfect. I'd sue and win because of that video.

I'd love it if anybody could find something detailing what happened to the guy who was tazed and the officer.

I just can't believe how many people have died from tasers... it's unbelievable.

Notable taser deaths

A 2004 CBS News report described 70 deaths believed to be caused by the Taser, including 10 in August 2004 alone.[17] Amnesty International has reported this number at 150 since June 2001.[18]

In October and November 2007, four individuals died after being tasered in Canada, leading to calls for review of its use. The highest-profile of these cases was that of Robert Dziekanski, a non-English speaking man from Poland who died in less than two minutes after being tasered by RCMP officers at Vancouver International Airport in mid-October 2007.[19][20] The tasering was captured on home video and was broadcast nationally.[21] This was followed by three further death-after-Tasering incidents in Montreal, Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Chilliwack, British Columbia, leading Amnesty International to demand Taser use end in Canada, as it had records of 16 other such deaths in the country. [22]

Robert Guerrero, 21, of Texas, died after being tasered. Police took this action against him when he was found hiding after illegally hooking up electrical equipment.[23]

On November 18, 2007, a 20-year-old man in Frederick, Maryland died after being tasered.[24]

Robert Guerrero may have died because he wouldn’t come out of a closet.

The small-time crook had been looking to steal some electricity. When he tried to illegally reconnect a neighbor’s electrical meter at the North View apartment complex near the Fort Worth Stockyards last November, someone called the cops. And when the officers arrived, someone else pointed them to the closet in Apartment M where he was hiding.

Guerrero, 21, wasn’t a violent criminal. His rap sheet was littered with convictions for things like misdemeanor theft and burglary of a coin-operated machine. Normally, theft of electricity won’t even get you arrested — just reported to the electric company. But when Fort Worth police arrived at the apartment on Clinton Street that afternoon, they treated Guerrero like a dangerous character.

Two officers entered the apartment and pulled open the door to the closet, where Guerrero was hiding under a black plastic trash bag. Officer P.R. Genualdo, a six-year veteran, told him to step out of the closet. When the 143-pound Guerrero refused, Genualdo unholstered his Taser and shot him in the chest, sending electricity through Guerrero’s body. A police report of the incident indicated that Genualdo held the Taser’s trigger down for 10 seconds — double the normal length of time. Worse, in the next minute he jolted Guerrero three more times with five-second blasts before pulling him from the closet floor.

A few minutes after the officers pulled him from the closet, Guerrero stopped breathing. Neither the officers nor paramedics could get his heart started again, and Guerrero was declared dead when an ambulance got him to John Peter Smith Hospital a short while later.

The Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office later listed the cause of death as heart failure brought on by “acute cocaine overdose,” but a member of the ME’s staff —who asked not to be named — told Fort Worth Weekly that “the amount of cocaine found in Guerrero’s blood would not normally have caused him to have heart failure.”

I like how they let these cops get off by blaming the cause on other things. Oh... it wasn't the taser that killed him... couldn't have been!

http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=12455

 

[Gunner]

God damn that's ridiculous. They gotta take all these "non-lethal" weapons away from them, they just don't know when to use them.