Posted on 05/18/2022 9:59:21 AM PDT by algore
A dirt bike rider is fighting for his life after he was tasered by a police officer while pumping gas at a Florida gas station, causing the pump to explode and him to be 'cooked alive' in a giant fireball, his attorneys say.
An internal investigation is currently underway over the Osceola County Sheriff's' handling of the incident.
Meanwhile Barretto, who was reportedly targeted because he attended a banned motorbike enthusiast event that was broken up by cops, is set to be put in a medically induced coma as he undergoes more intense treatment
The department recently adopted a zero-tolerance policy forbidding such rallies, lawyers for Barretto say. They are demanding the state take over the investigation and hold the officers involved accountable. The deputy has yet to be named.
The department has refused to provide body camera footage and incident reports chronicling the incident.
Video shows Barretto pumping gas into his motorbike outside the Orange County Wawa where the explosion would eventually occur, after he had stopped to get gas following the rally in Osceola County.
The footage the shows the unidentified officer deploy his Taser at Barretto, who was on the ground at the time. The shot then sets off a chain reaction causing the gas pump Barretto had been at to explode.
Police refused to turn over footage of the incident from the officers' body-cameras, and have yet to identify the deputies involved, pending an internal investigation.
Lawyers for Barretto are demanding the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and US Department of Justice take over the probe, and begin an investigation into the protocols, practices, policies, and procedures of the Sheriff’s Office.
Barretto was not armed
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Well many police departments limit the IQ scores of applicants.
Trigger happy cop?
I guess that’s one way to handle scofflaws. Nothing gets the govt going like flouting it’s authority.
Hmmm, apply spark plug to gasoline...
Police hide while internally investigating. Internally investigating. WTF? They work for us. Imprison every cop in the report and let BLM try them.
I'm not so sure IQ is part of the equation ... look into star chamber-like connections.
These guys targeted a rider AFTER the fact of attending an "illegal" event.
"THERE'S one, Fred . . . GIT "IM . . ." !
Just doing the attacking and murdering that US citizens don’t want to do?
Unarmed man, already on the ground, and the cop still needed to use his cattle prod.
How many civilians in the gas station did the deputy recklessly endanger so he could play the torturer?
I didn’t know DeSantis was there. If so, it already blew up in his face!
good thing this guy was from florida...
anyone else would have complained
One reason why I DON’T back the blue.
These a-holes need to get their act together.
Umm, I normally support the blue, but if all is as this article claims ... I have a hard (really hard) time justifying using a tazer an unarmed man who is on the ground.
I never said nor implied DeSantis was there, I DID say this report will blow up in his face ..... because ..... he's about the best law and order righteous governor in America . . . especially with media focusing on him and providing a lot of publicity.
DeSantis is a thorn under the enemy's ass.
“The footage the shows the unidentified officer deploy his Taser at Barretto, who was on the ground at the time. The shot then sets off a chain reaction causing the gas pump Barretto had been at to explode.”
Video is edited, but the cop runs up jumps him.. then an edit happens, but with both still on the ground the Cop clearly discharges his taser causing the fireball...
Looks like the guy is fueling up his bike, when the cop just runs up and tackles him, knocking him and his bike to the ground, which would absolutely have put gas everywhere... There is an edit from the cop tackling him and the fire starting.
Doesn’t look good in any way for the cop... unarmed man pumping gas... he wasn’t a murderer or any threat to the public at this moment.... We’ll see what the body cams show, but not surprisingly the police aren’t releasing them.
The deputy must have never watched this clip from Justified.
Do you know how a firearm works?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QUMX2Y4I20
Two young male cops I met recently didn’t know if their patrol car was a V-8 or 6 cylinder. Surprised?
This could be one for you, Nully.
Well, Florida man are cops too.
I don’t think it will hurt the governor.
The people who will go nuts and try to blame him will never ever support him regardless of what he does.
The people who have supported him will continue to do so because they know the county sheriff is not under the control of the governor.
See 14, and watch the video, its impossible for me to see how this cop isn’t just all kinds of out of line...
Guys fueling his bike, the cop runs up, takles him knocking both the bike and the man to the ground... the video does have a clear edit, but the man is still on the ground when the cop tases him...
What the hell is justification for running up and tackling someone who is no immediate threat to anyone as best as it appears.
We’ll see if the body cam footage brings out more context, but that hasn’t been released, and it sure doesn’t look good.. The Daily Mail does sensationalize.. so maybe they have left out context, but on its face it looks REALLY BAD for the cop.
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