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
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So you are suggesting that if the “drunk moron” had been voilent before being stripped, handcuffed and put on the ground (there are no charges against him to explain why he was stripped, handcuffed and put on the snow covered ground) they then have the right to beat him? I missed that in my constitutional law class. Can you explain?
It would appear these cops may have acted “stupidly” but I’ll leave it to the expert-in-chief to make that call. Of course, since the victim apparently wasn’t black, I’m not holding my breath.
And exactly who is your post directed at, dude?
I am against no-knock raids, much of the drug war as we know it, on-street pat-downs and other police abuses.
But a drunk idiot who won't cooperate - and where we don't know what went down prior to him being handcuffed? There is a contingent on FR who are always going to judge the cops in a bad light. I'd like to see the 5-10 minutes of what happened prior to this before passing judgement.
Sorry dirtboy I ain’t buying what you are shoveling. The guy as far as I can is is either unconscious or incapacitated and yet they are ordering him to comply and then farther beating and tasering him more when he doesn’t. There is no evidence in the video that this guy was some sort of ‘superman’ and yet five cops couldn’t handle him even when he was unconscious? Maybe they should have just put a bullet in him and had been done with it.
It appears other cops came in just to give a few kicks to the prisoner. Time for a few civil suits.
I am saying the drunken moron might have well given the cops serious concern for their safety during the arrest. And they had a reason to Taze him when he wouldn't roll over because they feared for their safety if trying to force him over - a handcuffed guy still has his legs free and a guy on his back can deliver a very strong kick that can break bones.
I do agree that they should review procedure after Tazing - the guy might have been physically unable to roll over at that point. But given that he had initially refused, the cops probably thought he was still voluntarily refusing.
I do not trust anyone in a uniform. To hell with them.
If you tolerate thuggish behavior like these Goons with badges, then you are saying they are above the law. Oh and it’s only a matter of time until it’s you.
“First they came for the communists, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a Jew.
Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me.”
-Pastor Martin Niemöller about the inactivity of German intellectuals following the Nazi rise to power and the purging of their chosen targets, group after group.
Ever watch MMA?
One of the most dangerous moves is a guy lying on his back kicking up at an opponent trying to move down on him.
A guy on his back in handcuffs still has his legs free. There is a reason the cops wanted him on his belly, as you can't do an up kick from that position. We don't know if the guy tried to kick the cops during the arrest, as we don't see the events prior to his being on the ground in cuffs.
I think the kicking was probably overkill. But once again, it's not that good of a video image and we are largely hearing the side of the lawyer in this case.
It is apparent I misunderstood your post and gave an ill-informed reaction.
My apologies.
Puh-leeze. You have no idea what the entire story is here.
Maybe they were just angry that he didn’t have a dog for them to shoot.
“I’d like to see the 5-10 minutes of what happened prior to this before passing judgement. “
If he had showed up five minutes prior carrying a duffle bag full of children’s heads, I suppose that might justify this kind of beating. Sounds unlikely.
Obviously the cops thought the released portion of the video justified their behavior. Even you disagree with them on that point.
It does cause the mind to ponder, what kind of behavior five minutes prior would you suggest could justify this.
Watch MMA? So tell me if you taserer, beat unconscious, break a rib, puncture lung of and then cuff the drunk GREARTEST MMA fighter of all time how many MMA fighters do you think it would take to beat him?
Do you honestly believe that guy in the video getting his a$$ kicked looks like a threat to 5 cops that are standing over him?
Any person with half an ounce of objectivity know these cops were out of line. They should all lose their jobs at the very least.
Once again, we don't know if he kicked at the cops while they were cuffing him. I've dealt with drunken morons before, and they are very unpredictable and dangerous.
And you would want to be the cop trying to secure the guy's legs with shackles? Do you value your teeth? A handcuffed drunk can still let loose a nasty kick. Which is why the cops wanted him on his belly in the first place.
I agree with you. Bonehead should have just cooperated. I would not want to be a cop, this is what they deal with the vast majority of the time, at least the ones I know say they spend most of their time on the problem portions of town. Pareto principle, and all that.
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