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Police: Officer Zaps Partner After Soda Dispute
AP ^ | 12/8/05

Posted on 12/08/2005 5:51:48 AM PST by Mr. Brightside

Police: Officer Zaps Partner After Soda Dispute

POSTED: 7:19 am EST December 8, 2005

HAMTRAMCK, Mich. -- Authorities said a police officer in Michigan used a Taser stun gun on his partner during an argument about stopping for a soft drink.

The suspect was fired after the Nov. 3 incident and is charged with assault.

Ronald Dupuis, 32, could get up to 93 days in jail if convicted.

Authorities said Dupuis asked partner Prema Graham to stop at a store for a soft drink, but she refused and instead kept driving back to headquarters.

Authorities said the partners struggled over the steering wheel, and Dupuis hit Graham's leg with his department-issued Taser gun. She wasn't seriously hurt.


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To: Mr. Brightside

It took 20+ posts for this??

People, you're slipping.

21 posted on 12/08/2005 6:15:38 AM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Mr. Brightside

No Polish jokes, please! ;-)


22 posted on 12/08/2005 6:16:13 AM PST by Kieri
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To: Wolfie
Now that's funny.

I don't care who you are!

23 posted on 12/08/2005 6:19:42 AM PST by winston2 (Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness! :-)
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To: Mr. Brightside

Fired? That sounds like good clean fun to me. There was a dispute in the patrol unit, and it was handled properly; trial by combat.


24 posted on 12/08/2005 6:20:23 AM PST by GregoTX (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: csvset; mikrofon; martin_fierro
Authorities said Dupuis asked partner Prema Graham to stop. . . . Dupuis hit Graham's leg with his department-issued Taser gun. She wasn't seriously hurt.

If this had done some tissue damage, we would have a Prema fascia case.

25 posted on 12/08/2005 6:22:30 AM PST by Charles Henrickson (Prima facie, that was a good pun.)
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To: All

Stun gun the driver... smart.. and funny.


26 posted on 12/08/2005 6:25:12 AM PST by CygnusXI (Where's that dang Meteor already?)
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To: Mr. Brightside
Never bring a soda to a taser fight...

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Pop goes the weasel
27 posted on 12/08/2005 6:25:18 AM PST by YouPosting2Me
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To: Mr. Brightside

Only jerks call it soda anyway :-)

http://www.popvssoda.com/



28 posted on 12/08/2005 6:34:38 AM PST by PissAndVinegar
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To: r9etb

"But the real question is: how do you pronounce "Hamtramck"?"

It's pronounced "HAM-TRAM-ICK"... The city is also known for passing the Muslim call to prayer 5 times a day over it's city's announcement systems. Go figure.

Regarding the cops: with "partners" like this you don't need criminals to fight. Idiots.


29 posted on 12/08/2005 6:36:47 AM PST by HomeFree (Proud REDgistered voter!)
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To: Mr. Brightside
Only in Detroit. For those not from the area, Hamtramck is an enclave surrounded on all four sides by the City of Detroit. Hamtramck is like a mini-U.N. - it has a population made up of Albanians, Bengladeshis, Ukranians, Moldavians, Yemenis, Bosnians, Chinese, Indians, Pakistanis, Poles and a host of other nationalities.
The Hamtramck school district has to deal with 26 different languages. All this in a 2 sq. mile area!
Hamtramck was founded in the 1700s and became a large Polish enclave in the 1920s and 30s. At one time Hamtramck was the most densely populated area in the country - more densely populated that Manhattan.

A year ago there was a legal battle over the right of Mosques to use amplifiers to broadcast the daily call to prayer.

30 posted on 12/08/2005 6:46:05 AM PST by Tokra (I think I'll retire to Bedlam.)
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To: Riley

Team Ramrod this duo was not...


31 posted on 12/08/2005 6:46:24 AM PST by akorahil (Thank You and God bless all Veterans. Truly, the real heroes.)
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To: Mr. Brightside
When someone asks me if I want a "soda", I reply, "No thanks, I'm not baking a cake today".

I have nothing against soda - but I prefer to drink it with some Coke syrup and sweetener added.(otherwise known as Pop!)

32 posted on 12/08/2005 6:48:53 AM PST by Tokra (I think I'll retire to Bedlam.)
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To: Mr. Brightside

Sounds like the guy had a serious addiction to Soda pop.

Also sounds like these two werent partners but seriously disliked each other. Their supervisor should have spotted this and moved them to new partners. Some people just shouldnt work with each other.


33 posted on 12/08/2005 6:49:03 AM PST by sgtbono2002
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To: Riley

We don't have litre cola.


34 posted on 12/08/2005 7:47:57 AM PST by shelterguy
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To: r9etb
But the real question is: how do you pronounce "Hamtramck"?

Pole Town.

35 posted on 12/08/2005 7:52:40 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Mr. Brightside

Is this for real or a Reno 911 episode?


36 posted on 12/08/2005 7:29:32 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity ("Sharpei diem - Seize the wrinkled dog.")
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To: Tokra

Actually Hamtramck has a border with Highland Park but the two cities are completely surrounded by Detroit. Whose idea was that?

Highland Park used to be pretty ritzy but took a nosedive in the 60's due to the riots but it was actually in decline before that - they were comletely dependent on Chrysler which moved out. Hamtramck held up pretty well neighborhoodwise but is in decline now. Still better than most of Detroit.

Hamtramck has great places for Polish food even though most of the Poles moved out.

A bit of a thread hijack, but it's way more interesting to me than some knuckledragger tasing his partner.


37 posted on 12/08/2005 8:32:13 PM PST by VoiceOfBruck (Dave? Dave's not here.)
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To: VoiceOfBruck
Actually Hamtramck has a border with Highland Park but the two cities are completely surrounded by Detroit. Whose idea was that?

Long ago, Highland Park was way out in the country. Hamtramck is what was left of Hamtramck Township, which included most of east Wayne County. As different towns sprang up, were incorporated and finally annexed by the City of Detroit - there was only one small chunk of the township left. It finally incorporated itself as the city of Hamtramck. By then Detroit had swallowed all the surrounding towns and the rest of the township.

38 posted on 12/09/2005 6:05:13 AM PST by Tokra (I think I'll retire to Bedlam.)
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To: Tokra

That makes sense. RO, where I live, used to be a real outpost, way before my time of course. Now it's one of the "close-in" suburbs." - and one of the very few that has an actual downtown, as opposed to ugly clumps of strip malls.


39 posted on 12/09/2005 8:37:37 AM PST by VoiceOfBruck (Dave? Dave's not here.)
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To: Mr. Brightside
HAMTRAMCK, Mich. -- Authorities said a police officer in Michigan used a Taser stun gun on his partner during an argument about stopping for a soft drink.

This could only happen in a place called Hamtramck.

40 posted on 12/09/2005 8:44:32 AM PST by Jigsaw John
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