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Man Tasered For Refusing To Lift Hand Off Quran (Florida)
Local 6 (Florida) ^ | September 21, 2007

Posted on 09/22/2007 3:11:12 PM PDT by Stoat

Man Tasered For Refusing To Lift Hand Off Quran

 

POSTED: 10:10 pm EDT September 21, 2007
UPDATED: 10:12 pm EDT September 21, 2007

 

OCALA, Fla. -- Four police officers are under investigation here after a man accused them of using a Taser on him three times when he wouldn't take his hand off a Quran hidden under his shirt, a police spokesman said Friday.

Jeffrey Shields, 49, of Ocala, filed a complaint with the Ocala Police Department alleging an officer used a Taser to force him to hold up his right hand, police spokesman Lou Biondi said. In a complaint filed Tuesday, Shields said he did not want to raise his right hand from under his shirt because he did not want to drop the Quran, but the officers said they could not tell what he was holding, Biondi said.

"The officers didn't have a clue what he had under there, regardless of what he was saying," he said. Officers were dispatched to the scene on Aug. 31 after authorities received tips that a man matching Shields' description was armed with a gun and stashing drugs inside a book, Biondi said. Neither drugs nor a gun was found after the incident.

Shields was shocked with the Taser for 15 seconds before he removed his hand from the book, Biondi said. He filed the complaint against four officers ---- Phil Hazel, Doug Russell, Bernard Smith and Jamie Buchbinder -- though no police records show Russell was on the scene when the Taser was deployed, Biondi said. All four will remain on duty while the incident is reviewed. "It is odd that he waited so long to file a complaint, 19 days or so," Biondi said. "Normally when people feel they've been wronged, it's something that happens almost immediately." A phone number for Shields could not be located.

Biondi said a police dashboard camera did not capture the incident. Shields was initially given a court notice for resisting arrest without violence, Biondi said, but charges were dropped at his Sept. 10 appearance.



TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Florida; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: donttasemebro; donutwatch; florida; islam; korananimals; leo; muhammadsmorons; police; stopislamization; taser; waronidiots; waronislamism; zot
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To: SALChamps03

Jesus would not appreciate that reply no matter how you feel if you are Chirstian that remark was far from the golden rule!


81 posted on 09/23/2007 2:39:57 AM PDT by restornu (No one is perfect but you can always strive to do the right thing! Press Forward Mitt!)
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To: MindBender26
However, in the body copy, the same writer says

Not necessarily the same writer, most likely not in fact. Stories are written and then transmitted, usually electronically to the folks who arrange the paper, or the web page. The author doesn't get to write the headline. Even book authors sometimes have to "compromise" with the marketing people, on a title for their works.

82 posted on 09/23/2007 4:09:19 PM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: El Gato

If the headline writer didn’t read the story, woe on shim.


83 posted on 09/23/2007 4:28:04 PM PDT by MindBender26 (Having my own CAR-15 in Vietnam meant never having to say I was sorry......)
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To: rogue yam

LOLOL


84 posted on 09/23/2007 4:29:10 PM PDT by Libertina (BBQ Party Saturday September 29th...2:00 PM...Host Jo Nuvark)
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To: MindBender26

I think the islamofacists overestimate American’s political correctness.

That is, they think we are so politically correct that we are stupid.


85 posted on 09/23/2007 4:36:00 PM PDT by zeebee
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To: restornu

I consider any book that advocates the killing of people who do not believe to be no more valuable than toilet paper. I also consider it presumptuous to assume one can speak for Jesus.


86 posted on 09/23/2007 4:48:31 PM PDT by SALChamps03
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To: zeebee
>>>>That is, they think we are so politically correct that we are stupid.

If they think that we are so politically correct that we might do stupid things, things that are so serious they might jeopardize the country, they are so right!

87 posted on 09/23/2007 5:27:47 PM PDT by MindBender26 (Having my own CAR-15 in Vietnam meant never having to say I was sorry......)
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To: Stoat

He’s lucky they didn’t shoot him.


88 posted on 09/23/2007 5:29:17 PM PDT by Pistolshot (Keyes/Paul '08 - When you can't get crazy enough.)
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To: cripplecreek
"You'll move your hand NOW, mister!"

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

89 posted on 09/23/2007 5:36:31 PM PDT by wku man (Claire Wolfe, is it time yet?)
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To: Stoat
"he did not want to raise his right hand from under his shirt because he did not want to drop the Quran"

Lucky (shame) he wasn't shot because it could just as readily been a gun.

(waste of court time - lecturing Brittany for her behavior would have more merit)

90 posted on 09/23/2007 5:44:01 PM PDT by norton
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To: norton

Yeah, well, sorry, I got into this discussion late.


91 posted on 09/23/2007 5:46:55 PM PDT by norton
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To: Stoat


This is shocking!

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92 posted on 09/23/2007 5:49:46 PM PDT by OESY
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To: Stoat


The Homeland Security Spokesman
identifies suspected terrorists.

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93 posted on 09/23/2007 6:00:26 PM PDT by OESY
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To: SALChamps03

I consider any book that advocates the killing of people who do not believe to be no more valuable than toilet paper. I also consider it presumptuous to assume one can speak for Jesus.

****

I have no more used for the terrorist than you do, but not all Muslim are are savages and killers, we as good people should keep that in mind.

Two wrongs don’t make a right.

I don’t claim to speak for Jesus Christ in the Bible Jesus continues to admonish his children for getting into his business.

Romans 12
19 Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.

20 Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.

21 Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good


94 posted on 09/23/2007 7:25:28 PM PDT by restornu (No one is perfect but you can always strive to do the right thing! Press Forward Mitt!)
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To: MindBender26
If the headline writer didn’t read the story, woe on shim.

He or she most likely skimmed it. But mainly she/he put their own pro-muzzie spin on it.

95 posted on 09/23/2007 8:01:13 PM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: El Gato

Zactly!


96 posted on 09/24/2007 1:45:03 AM PDT by MindBender26 (Having my own CAR-15 in Vietnam meant never having to say I was sorry......)
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