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Death of teen on bike shows risks of expanded use of Tasers
St Petersburg Times ^ | Aug 1, 2010 | Meg Laughlin

Posted on 08/01/2010 5:41:28 PM PDT by driftdiver

Late one night in October, a 17-year-old on a bike was chased by a police officer in a cruiser. When the boy refused to stop, the officer aimed his Taser out the driver's window and fired. The boy fell off the bike and the cruiser ran over him, killing him.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: billayersfans; codeofsilence; cops; cultureofcorruption; donutwatch; plantedevidence; taser; tasers; tazer
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Watch the video and listen to the audio. Cop shoots kid from his moving car, runs him over, and is then video taped crawling under the car with a silver item.

Dead kid is later found to have a silver gun. Cop gets off.

1 posted on 08/01/2010 5:41:40 PM PDT by driftdiver
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour

fyi


2 posted on 08/01/2010 5:43:01 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: driftdiver

Some police officers are too stupid to be considered human. This jamoke is one of them.


3 posted on 08/01/2010 5:43:57 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel (Obama makes me miss Jimmah Cahtah!)
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To: driftdiver

Crime: Pissing off Officer Judge J. N. Executioner.

Sentence: DEATH

Badge-lappers on deck in 3... 2... 1...


4 posted on 08/01/2010 5:48:30 PM PDT by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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To: MIchaelTArchangel

He didn’t stop when the cop told him too, so I guess he deserved to die. right? I mean thats what many people on FR say.


5 posted on 08/01/2010 5:48:41 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: MIchaelTArchangel

“Some police officers are too stupid to be considered human. This jamoke is one of them.”

Jack booted thugs love their tasers.
Makes them feel like gods, or Darth Vader.


6 posted on 08/01/2010 5:49:11 PM PDT by AlexW
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To: driftdiver

The Judge Dredd wannabes.


7 posted on 08/01/2010 5:50:23 PM PDT by Eye of Unk ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act" G.Orwell)
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To: AlexW

Not only the tazer but planting evidence.


8 posted on 08/01/2010 5:50:53 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: driftdiver

Cops. Some of them are really stupid.


9 posted on 08/01/2010 5:52:06 PM PDT by Past Your Eyes (Some people are too stupid to be ashamed.)
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To: MIchaelTArchangel

Tasers are an intermediate weapon on the use of force continuum. You don’t discharge one unless immediate harm is plausible to the officer or someone else. This officer was in the wrong. Whether or not they planted a weapon, I’m not sure. That cop screwed up.


10 posted on 08/01/2010 5:55:20 PM PDT by goseminoles
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To: driftdiver

THX 1138 alert!


11 posted on 08/01/2010 5:55:48 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: goseminoles

That said, the taser is a great weapon. But I hate the title of this article. Its slanted. Who’s “expanding” the use of tasers?


12 posted on 08/01/2010 5:59:11 PM PDT by goseminoles
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The cop went to his car and got a silver object. He crawled under the car where the dead kid was with the silver object. The kid was later found with an illegal silver object.

Anyone else would have been convicted with this video tape.


13 posted on 08/01/2010 5:59:18 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: driftdiver

Yep. Planting stuff is the worst form of police deviance.


14 posted on 08/01/2010 6:01:55 PM PDT by goseminoles
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To: goseminoles

Isn’t anyone in authority a little worried that if this continues, people will evade/flee/shoot first at police because they simply can’t be trusted?

What if that becomes a valid defense?

Interesting, that the gun was wiped clean. How did the kid put it in his pocket? Maybe he was a neatness freak?


15 posted on 08/01/2010 6:04:06 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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Failure of the public trust is a very bad road to go down. Blacks have felt this way for years.


16 posted on 08/01/2010 6:07:45 PM PDT by goseminoles
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To: driftdiver

I don’t normally assume the cop is at fault, but this, even without the “silver item” possibility, signifies an absolute moron of a cop.


17 posted on 08/01/2010 6:09:33 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady (I can see November from my house.)
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To: goseminoles
It appears that the cops acted stupidly. What we don't know is why the cop is chasing the kid for in the first place. From the video, the only one seen endangering the public is the police, who are driving on the wrong side of the road.
If the kid was fleeing after an armed robbery, use of force justified, but not the way this cop responded. He obviously wasn't paying attention to his driving or he would have stopped before running over both the kid and a curb.
He could have just as easily done that to someones grandma.
Second, I don't hear any siren during the pursuit. In many States it's illegal for police to exceed or ignore normal traffic laws unless both lights and sirens are used at the same time. While cops continually ignore that, in no case is a police officer exempt from liability for traffic accidents even if they are using lights and sirens.
Cops wrong. Cops covering up for other cops.
18 posted on 08/01/2010 6:11:58 PM PDT by bitterohiogunclinger (Proudly casting a heavy carbon footprint as I clean my guns ---)
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To: bitterohiogunclinger

Good post. I agree.


19 posted on 08/01/2010 6:14:40 PM PDT by goseminoles
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He didn’t stop when the cop told him too, so I guess he deserved to die. right? I mean thats what many people on FR say.

That's pretty much the logic of the Freeper Law and Order---Cops Can Do No Wrong Crowd.

20 posted on 08/01/2010 6:16:07 PM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour
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