Posted on 08/23/2007 5:39:49 AM PDT by period end of story
BRATTLEBORO, Vt. - Chained to a 55-gallon drum to protest the proposed development of a vacant lot, Jonathan Crowell wasn't threatening anyone. But he refused police orders to unshackle himself and leave, so they zapped him with a Taser, then charged him with trespassing.
"It wasn't just a short burst," said Crowell, 32, of Dummerston, recalling the July 24 incident. "Five seconds is a long time to be electrocuted. My whole body was contorting and flapping around. You can't think of anything else but that pain. It's really scary. I felt like I was being tortured."
Increasingly, police facing stubborn lawbreakers, belligerent drunks or violent suspects are reaching for stun guns to shock them into submission. In one recent incident, a hospital security guard in Houston used a Taser on a defiant father trying to take his newborn home, sending father and daughter to the floor.
Police say Tasers are valuable tools for avoiding hand-to-hand struggles that can injure officers and citizens. Small, portable and often effective even when merely brandished, Tasers which fire tiny, tethered cartridges that transmit electrical currents have become common in law enforcement in recent years, with some 11,500 police agencies using them
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Electrocuted and lived to tell about it. Kind of like jumbo shrimp...
It’s not that difficult. When the police tell you to _______. You do it. End of story, no electrocution. This guy needs to get a copy of Chris Rock’s video on how not to get your a** kicked by the po-leece.
Where’s the video? Wanted to see him contorted and flopping around, being “electrocuted”,
This dude who chained himself to a 55-gallon drum was basically asking for it, and he got it. I don’t think he’s smart enough to heed Rock’s message.
And he was clearly a danger to the police.
Idiot hippie.
I guess the cops have set up a boom box and played that old classic
Do you wanna Dance?
“In one recent incident, a hospital security guard in Houston used a Taser on a defiant father trying to take his newborn home, sending father and daughter to the floor.”
sheesh.... That security guard is lucky the newborn wasn’t injured. That family would now own the hospital.
I suppose if I had to choose between a taser, a baton to the head, a choke hold or a bullet, I’d probably still choose the taser.
He's going to own the hospital anyway.
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