so cops have been tasering the shit out of people lately. one dude was handcuffed in the back seat of the cop car, they tasered him 17 times, i think he might have died from that. another dude fell off a bridge, broke his back, cops get there and because he didn't get up! they tasered him 19 times...doctors had to wait 2 days to operate on his back as a result. WTF people?



thanks to catalyst for the thread idea

7/31/2008 11:09:23 AM

I think I made a thread last week w/ the article if you're interested

7/31/2008 11:12:45 AM

well the 2nd incident i spoke on happened today, so this isn't about an isolated event - this is about a growing trend of cops abusing their tasers on helpless people.

7/31/2008 11:15:12 AM

haha, oh I know it's not isolated. you're preaching to the choir man...

I've been trying to get people to realize just how deadly tasers are for the longest time.



"duuuurrrr....I jolted him because he didn't stay still after I told him too!"

' maybe he didn't stay still because you electrocuted his nervous system, making him convulse involuntarily'.

7/31/2008 11:20:33 AM

i'd never tase you, bro.

7/31/2008 11:21:40 AM

they just also taserd someone to death in jail. or on the way to jail. or something.

7/31/2008 11:21:48 AM

why can't cops switch back to pepper spray and nightsticks?

7/31/2008 11:23:10 AM

yes

7/31/2008 11:23:12 AM

see the use of "less than lethal" force has replaced talking and negotiation amongst the police

the first choice lately has been the taser

this fucking thing should be banned in law enforcement

7/31/2008 11:23:23 AM

I just want to see the officers responsible face charges of similar magnitude to the cops that beat down rodney king.

7/31/2008 11:24:19 AM

it's just so fucked up that they can justify using it b/c it's 'less than lethal'


and then people die in the street from less than lethal force without a trial


p.s., one ex cop is facing homocide charges. they think that in his incident, he was shocking a guy about 7 times. then shocked him twice after death....the body wasn't moving

[Edited on July 31, 2008 at 11:28 AM. Reason : r]

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7/31/2008 11:26:11 AM

you mean you want to see the acquitted?

and follow the ruling with race riots?

7/31/2008 11:26:29 AM

damn, those cops were acquitted? damn.

7/31/2008 11:27:41 AM

^^^^^ shouldn't be banned, but we need to reshape how these knuckleheads think of it.

also, i think we would be better off with fewer, but better, more educated, and more highly trained cops--with better pay. we don't need these jackasses running around spending so much time writing bullshit traffic tickets, RADARing everyone, or busting up college parties, etc.

[Edited on July 31, 2008 at 11:29 AM. Reason : ^^^^^]

7/31/2008 11:29:11 AM

you mean you want real police?

I'm with you on that

how about college degrees plus extensive training in restraint techniques and other hand to hand defense methods

that way a weapon is the LAST choice a cop turns to in the pursuit of REAL criminals

7/31/2008 11:31:45 AM

i think a psychoanalysis would be a great prerequisite to weed out the crazies

7/31/2008 11:31:51 AM

you guys need to slow down

I can't type that fast with my thumbs

7/31/2008 11:35:05 AM

i mean, i must've gotten RADARed a dozen fucking times between Raleigh and Morehead City last night. that is completely ridiculous, and just one example.

Those cops should've been out doing something more productive...like fighting crime, instead of wasting time and resources with speed traps. If there isn't anything else for them to do, then we don't need as many cops, do we? That would allow us to either save taxpayer money, or hire/train/pay & retain better cops.

7/31/2008 11:35:29 AM

i agree that cops hanging out on the side of the road 'begging for change' as it were is no better than a hobo begging for change on hillsborough st.

7/31/2008 11:36:38 AM

but bullshit speeding tickets are an important form of revenue for the city/county/state!

how will we ever remove the infected cock of capitalism from our sore and battered asses?

7/31/2008 11:36:56 AM

legalize it.

7/31/2008 11:38:40 AM

^^ the fast driving tax doesn't have much to do with capitalism.

7/31/2008 11:41:13 AM

pigs be capitalizin' on my lead foot

7/31/2008 11:41:54 AM

yeah but the way our funding is distributed and then supplemented through the liberal issuance of fines is structured in a capitalistic manner

7/31/2008 11:42:13 AM

let's go tazy crazy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlUVGf8B2yc



[Edited on July 31, 2008 at 11:45 AM. Reason : zing]

7/31/2008 11:44:42 AM

Quote :

"well the 2nd incident i spoke on happened today, so this isn't about an isolated event - this is about a growing trend of cops abusing their tasers on helpless people."

You mean this one?

Quote :

"another dude fell off a bridge, broke his back, cops get there and because he didn't get up! they tasered him 19 times...doctors had to wait 2 days to operate on his back as a result"

So what, he was operated on today?

Or he was tazed today and they will operate on him Saturday?

7/31/2008 11:47:51 AM

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/93135/teen_with_broken_back_tasered_19_times_for_not_standing_up_when_ordered/

Quote :

"This time it's a white 16 year old male teenager who suffered a broken back after a thirty foot fall in Ozark, Missouri. When police arrived the boy was incoherent and refused to get up when ordered to do so, so police tasered him 19 fucking times! I bet that'll teach him some respect for law enforcement officers: OZARK, Mo. -- A family wants answers about what happened to their son that left him hospitalized. Early Saturday morning, police found Mace Hutchinson, 16, underneath the Highway F overpass over U.S. 65. [...] By the time officers arrived, the teen was off the 30-foot overpass, lying on the shoulder below along U.S. 65, with no good explanation as to how he got there. "According to the doctors, all injuries are consistent with a fall," said his aunt, Samantha. "They tested his system. He was clean of drugs and alcohol. We don't know why unless just being in shock and the whole thing in itself caused him to forget everything," said Hutchinson. His aunt says he is undergoing major surgery for a broken back and broken heel. While he was lying on the ground, she wonders why Ozark police used an electric stun gun on him up to 19 times. "I'm not an officer, but I don't see the reason for 'Tasering' somebody laying there with a broken back. I don't consider that a threat." His dad says the use of the stun gun delayed what would have been immediate surgery by two days. "The 'Tasering' increased his white blood cell count and caused him to have a temperature so they could not go into the operation." Hey, at least he didn't die like Baron Pikes in Winnfield, Louisiana. Still, what the hell is going on in this country? Tasers were supposed to be an alternative to using a gun to subdue dangerous individuals, not a means for the police to torture people already in custody or lying incoherent with severe injuries after a 30 foot fall. By the way, what was the official police explanation for tasering a kid with a broken back 19 fucking times? Well, read it yourself: "He refused to comply with the officers and so the officers had to deploy their Tasers in order to subdue him. He is making incoherent statements; he's also making statements such as, 'Shoot cops, kill cops,' things like that. So there was cause for concern to the officers," said Ozark Police Capt. Thomas Rousset. Yeah, I believe that. A 16 year old kid with a broken back was so threatening and so dangerous that several police officers had to taser him 19 fucking times just to subdue him. Right. That must be how it happened. Kid must have been the size of the Hulk. Or not. But you decide. Here's a photo of him in the hospital:"

Quote :

"Now tell me again why tasers for our law enforcement officials are such a great idea? I don't think even the guys at Gitmo were tasered 19 fucking times, with or without a broken back. But what do I know. I'm just some left wing tie-dyed hippy blogger."

7/31/2008 1:35:42 PM

You don't wanna be near me when my taser goes off.

7/31/2008 1:38:10 PM

they couldn't afford to taser me.

7/31/2008 1:43:58 PM

I'm going to hell for this pic:

7/31/2008 1:44:40 PM

ahahahahahaaahahahahha i'll be there with ya for laughing at it

7/31/2008 1:45:18 PM

if looks could kill you could be an uzi?

or a shotgun..

bang?


what's up with that thang?

i want to know...

how does it hang?

7/31/2008 1:45:28 PM

short, shriveled, and slightly to the left.

7/31/2008 3:46:41 PM

+



=

7/31/2008 3:51:16 PM

wait up
straight up
hold up

mr. brotha.

7/31/2008 3:53:02 PM

like Prince said

7/31/2008 3:53:20 PM

srsly though this makes me and


shit's weak.

7/31/2008 3:56:25 PM

Quote :

"shit's weak."

7/31/2008 4:04:03 PM