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VIDEO - Handcuffed man repeatedly kicked, beaten, and tasered by police while in handcuffs
Daily Mail ^ | 7/11/11 | Daily Mail Reporter

Posted on 07/11/2011 10:53:25 AM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

A Tennessee man sustained a punctured lung and cracked ribs following a brutal beating from a team of police deputies - while he already in handcuffs.

After being stripped naked, the man was kicked and shocked repeatedly with a Taser gun. The January 23 incident was caught on tape by video equipment fixed to the vehicle of a Humphreys county sheriff deputy.

The victim, Darren T. Ring, 34, of New Johnsonville is requesting to be released from jail where he has been held in lieu of bond for more than five months.

Humpreys County deputies descended on Ring after responding to a report of gunshots in Waverly. Ring was not arrested for firing the shots but was drunk when the deputies arrived, reports show.

In a grand jury indictment, Ring was charged with three counts of assaulting an officer, resisting arrest, and a parole violation.

However, the video footage shows deputies repeatedly telling Ring to stop resisting arrest while he is incapacitated laying facedown in the snow with at least two deputies on top of him

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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Kicked, beaten and tasered for "contempt of cop," all while handcuffed.
1 posted on 07/11/2011 10:53:33 AM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

Video at link


2 posted on 07/11/2011 10:54:15 AM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

And you don’t think a drunken moron in handcuffs can’t cause injury to someone?


3 posted on 07/11/2011 10:59:10 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
Ring was charged with three counts of assaulting an officer,

Did the cops forget their iron toes shoes and stub their toes on Ring's ribs?

4 posted on 07/11/2011 10:59:17 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (The Dems demanding shared sacrifice are like Aztec priests doing it while cutting out my heart.)
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

He was drunk and so is obviously a ‘dead beat’, ‘dead beats’ have no rights are just getting what is coming to them./sarc/

Just beating a few Freepers I know to the punch.


5 posted on 07/11/2011 11:00:01 AM PDT by Kartographer (".. we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.")
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To: Kartographer

nobody wants to play the good cop role anymore


6 posted on 07/11/2011 11:02:39 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom!!! I know i was kidding)
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To: dirtboy

Drunk, naked, in handcuffs, lying in the snow, with five cops around.

And they can’t take him into custody without beating, kicking, and tasering? Breaking his ribs and puncturing his lungs?

(But what fun would that be?)


7 posted on 07/11/2011 11:03:54 AM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
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To: Kartographer
"Just beating a few Freepers I know to the punch."

Every FReeper who thinks this is acceptable should get such a beating someday soon. Nothing like an actual eye-opening education to alter your frame of reference. Felonous thug criminals with badges are the worst scum alive.

;^\

8 posted on 07/11/2011 11:04:15 AM PDT by Gargantua ("Palin 2012 ~ Going Oval")
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To: dirtboy

95% of cops give the other 5% a bad name.


9 posted on 07/11/2011 11:04:55 AM PDT by Augie
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To: dirtboy

You’re right. I’m quick to call out abusive jackboot-cops, but this one is a ‘wait and see’ for me.


10 posted on 07/11/2011 11:04:55 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Until Obama, has there ever been, in history, a Traitorous Ruler?)
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
OH Boy, here we go again.

"Can't we all just get along."

11 posted on 07/11/2011 11:07:44 AM PDT by CharacterCounts (November 4, 2008 - the day America drank the Kool-Aid)
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

Couldn’t tell if he was handcuffed or not. I’ve rolled around on the ground with a few guys, and been down in the mud, blood and beer more than once. The kicker needs to be fired and prosecuted. The clubber needs to be fired and prosecuted. The taser guy needs to be fired and prosecuted. If any other cops lied to cover it up they need to be fired and prosecuted.
Drunks are a pain in the rear, but if those guys can’t handle them they need to work as something else.


12 posted on 07/11/2011 11:08:43 AM PDT by Scotsman will be Free (11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
Hard to judge the guy's ethnicity from the video. However, the fact that you can see him fairly well in the dark does not bode well for the possibility of multimillion dollar pay day or a riot in the Rodney King tradition.
13 posted on 07/11/2011 11:09:31 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

These thugs in uniform need to get punished just like we ndividual citezens would. This is beyond any justifiable beating by a mile!


14 posted on 07/11/2011 11:10:41 AM PDT by vpintheak (Democrats: Robbing humans of their dignity 1 law at a time)
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To: Lazamataz
I watched the video. He was told to roll over and didn't. He was warned in no uncertain terms that he would be tazed if he didn't roll over. He decided to be a stubborn drunken moron and got Tazed for it. And the reason the cops used force is because he was being a drunk stubborn moron.

I'll save indignation for someone who gets abused by the cops for no reason. This idiot gave them a reason, and I'm sorry, but drunks can be VERY dangerous, even when handcuffed. They don't feel stuff that would stop a sober person.

15 posted on 07/11/2011 11:11:16 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: Augie

I wouldn’t go as high as 5%, its really < .00000000000001%. I know what you’re thinking but Im feeling generous today.


16 posted on 07/11/2011 11:12:29 AM PDT by 556x45
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To: Lazamataz

The guy was naked in the snow, was drunk and had been tasered already.

You tell me not one of those FIVE cops could sit on his legs, grab them, or otherwise subdue him, AFTER he was cuffed?

Why the beating with the nightstick?

The guy wasn’t kicking anyone or otherwise being aggressive. Why the kicks to the ribs? Really? Why the violence against a naked man whose only resistance was refusing to turn over on his stomach in the snow?

If there is such a thing as “excessive use of force” this is certainly it, in my opinion.


17 posted on 07/11/2011 11:12:48 AM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
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To: Kartographer; dirtboy

Hate to tell you, but dirtboy beat you to it in comment #3.


18 posted on 07/11/2011 11:13:04 AM PDT by piytar (The Obama Depression. Say it early, say it often. Why? Because it's TRUE.)
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
You talkin' to me?     
19 posted on 07/11/2011 11:14:55 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open ( <o> ---)
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So tell me when someone is going to post a video of a cop getting his shoulder dislocated trying to arrest a drunk.

I normally don't chime in on the LEO threads. I do agree there are abuses. But I'm sorry, all this guy had to do is roll over. He didn't. And we don't know what led up to him being handcuffed on the ground in winter.

20 posted on 07/11/2011 11:16:07 AM PDT by dirtboy
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