Coorection: ...and NOT get away with it!
Posted on 08/25/2014 7:12:54 PM PDT by servo1969
When an Oglala Sioux Tribal police officer used her Taser several times on a man lying helpless on the ground in Manderson on Friday afternoon, she was trying to get the man "to wake up and stand up," Ron Duke, chief of the OST Department of Public Safety, said Monday.
The man, Duke said, was "lying on the ground, probably passed out, clearly intoxicated."
The incident was caught on camera by a passerby who taped the officer repeatedly zapping the man who appears to never resist, defend himself or make any threatening moves.
An expert in Tasers said using the shocking device is exactly the wrong way to get someone who is unconscious or lying down to stand up and respond to orders.
"You can't resist if you're unconscious," said Chuck Drago, of Oviedo, Fla., who has 35 years of experience in law enforcement and has testified as an expert witness more than 30 times.
(Excerpt) Read more at rapidcityjournal.com ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESULHv9jFco
UPDATE- She's been fired!
http://www.keloland.com/newsdetail.cfm/tribal-officer-fired-after-stun-gun-incident/?id=168505
Good, because she she clearly had a lot of the aspects of her job bass-ackward.
She belongs in PRISON
Coorection: ...and NOT get away with it!
Now she’s free to invent an alarm clock for teenagers and become a millionaire!
Hopefully she gets 10 years for violating that guys civil rights under color of authority.
Did they take away her broom and bevy of flying monkeys?
She’s been on the force 2 1/2 years and she’s a corporal?
affirmative action promotions?
With her ethnic background she OUGHT to be GENERAL next month.
From her outline, she must have been regularly beating the others to the donuts.
Since there are no human on the planet who hate donuts (Danny de Vito) I have to say that I am with her on this. YUMMERS. Chocolate raised and glazed raised donuts.
I'm getting my hair done tomorrow (every seven weeks) and NEXT door to the salon is BOB'S DONUTS. THAT is my first stop.
That’s what boots and billyclubs are for
“From her outline, she must have been regularly beating the others to the donuts.”
Yeah, not much detail in that video. Looks like it was filmed with a potato.
I have it on high authority, EPA and Moosechelle, that those donuts are dangerous! And, who can deny that at least one of those sources in high quite often.
Send them to me in the Everglades for safe disposal. It is for your own good!
According to this article published 2 yrs ago at the time she was running for re-election for County Coroner:
"I have owned and operated a cosmetology salon in town, have been a member of the Hot Springs Volunteer Fire Department since 2005, an EMT since 2008 and recently with the Hot Springs Ambulance Service. I am a police officer with the city reserves, a dispatcher for the county, and your County Coroner since 2010."
Apparently her salon is no more. But in addition to volunteer duties (Fire Dept, EMT) she holds three paid jobs at once - so likely all of them are part-time:
Some people claim that a required part of Taser Training for LEO's is to be tazed yourself so that you know how extremely painful it is.
Really? Maybe in some large, well-organized places with plenty of tax $$ for proper training.
But is that necessarily true in a town (Manderson) of 600+ people that's in the middle of a county (Shannon) that doesn't even have a county seat and is a county having less than 7 people per square mile? Not to mention having LEO's who need 3 jobs to make ends meet?
I'm betting she has absolutely no idea what it feels like to be tazed ..... which is why it's a crying shame this didn't happen in Singapore where the judges have some leeway to "make the punishment fit the crime" - for a clueless cop such as this.
She apparently thinks a taser is equivalent to a cattle prod - ie a tool designed to speed up an animal via localized pain, rather than a tool designed to immobilize a human via broad disruption of the nervous system and intense generalized pain.
Also, I think she's spent virtually no time around dead-drunks, and has little feel for what they're capable of and what they're not.
And I wonder how much on- or off- the-job training an average "city-of-600 police reserve officer" gets?
Do you think she's actually been on a fair number of drunk-collection team patrols, learning the ropes from experienced mentors?
No training with a Taser. No experience handling dead-drunks. What on earth is she doing out there on patrol alone, regardless of how strapped the local govt. budget is?
Let me speculate more as to her motivation for doing what she's doing....
Some fulltime large-city female cops are *obsessive* about working out every day, to keep in shape - *especially* their upper body strength - in order to narrow the physical gender gap between them & their male colleagues.
But does a parttime "police officer with the city reserves" who has two other paid jobs, also have the time to invest to be an Arnoldine Schwarzenegger? I think not.
Look at how tall she is on the video, especially when the male volunteer drunk-handlers walk up to her. Also how non-muscular her neck & shoulders look in the photo of 2 yrs ago. Then look at the size of that drunk. And he's on the ground. And looks pretty limp.
Let's see a show of hands if you think she could lift that guy into the vehicle herself. Anyone?
In a city, she'd be patrolling with a male partner. When a belligerent male needs talking down, she'd probably be far better at doing that, with her male partner as backup off to one side. But when a dead drunk needs lifting into the patrol car, the male partner would do the heavy lifting at the shoulders and she'd grab the knees.
Do you think this cop even has a backup available who was on active duty that day? I can't imagine her sitting there for "a half hour" (if the voices in the background are truthful) in a town of 600, for her backup to show up to help her with things she's physically incapable of doing herself.
Her backup has to be off duty or out of town.
She can't lift the drunk herself.
If she calls an off-duty cop / deputy / other nearby LEO, there could well be a reaction of, "Damnit, woman! I can lift drunks all on my own. Why the @$%! can't you? It's my day off!" Or maybe only a sigh on the other end of the phone line that she knows means, "damn those Diversity Hiring Quotas".
And she's completely ignorant of the fact that a taser is worse than useless for getting a semi-conscious drunk to stand up and climb into the SUV on his own or with a hand from her.
The dead giveaways to me are:
Sadly, this will be spun as: "Cop Deliberately Hurts Helpless Man Solely Because Cop is a White Racist and Victim is a Minority". Some have already done so last week.
But this will get one ten-thousandth of the airplay that the Ferguson case will. Not just because there were no deaths, but also because the minority member is the wrong color - red instead of black - and there is no well-oiled Race-Pimp Grievance Industry for that particular minority.
No Reverend Al Sharpton-Eagles or Rev. Jesse Nighthorse Jacksons to demagogue & demagouge any susceptible Deep Pockets within reach. There aren't enough states or Congressional Districts where Native Americans have the numbers to swing close elections, as is the case with blacks. So the white liberal puppetmasters have no incentive to recruit, train and give "walking around money" to any Native American Grievance-Industry Race Pimps.
Manderson, in Shannon County SD, is in the middle of the Pine Ridge reservation here on google maps. This is where the cop seems to be working now, as a "Tribal Officer". Whether she's fulltime or parttime is unclear.
Hot Springs, a town of 3500+ is just to the west of the reservation in Fall River County. The 2012 link for this cop-coroner-cosmetologist mentions her working in Hot Springs, which is likely the city she referred to when listing one of her current jobs of "reserve city police officer".
I'm not sure that your upper-body strength argument is relevant. If the man could not be fully awakened, she should not have tried to move him. She should have made sure that he was breathing, left him on the ground, and called for an ambulance. She could not be sure if the man was simply drunk, or if his diminished consciousness was due to a stroke, heart attack, or some other medical condition.
If there was no ambulance available, and no police backup, then she had the option to simply leave the man on the ground until someone, anyone, finally arrived to help her. That would have been vastly better than what she did.
Your post convinced me that she might -- might -- not be a sadist.
I hope she will be tried. Let the jury sort it out.
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