YouTube Video Shows Man Tasered After Refusing to Sign Ticket

Fox News ^ | November 21, 2007 | Sara Bonisteel

[Orange1998]

The video was on todays news even though it was recorded over a year ago. For some reason drivers are attracted to vehicles on the side of the road.

[Orange1998]

Are you talking about the Houston Texan player.

[joseph20]

"Either way, the driver was in fault at this point."

How was the driver at fault at that point?

The driver refused to sign the ticket. From what I understand, he is within his rights to do that.

The officer asked him to step out of the vehicle. He complied.

So far, so good. Driver has done nothing wrong at this point.

Now, once the guy is outside the vehicle, the officer immediately pulls out his taser gun! Look at the video. The officer begins pulling out the taser gun at the exact same moment that he begins speaking the words "turn around put your hands behind your back".

Since the guy had done nothing wrong up until that point, what right did the officer have to draw and point his weapon at him?

[servantboy777]

>>the country by young punks like Massey
>>He told the punk to stop
>>didn’t know if the punk had a gun under
>>Within seconds of being tased, the punk

Man, you gotta problem. You keep referring to the guy as punk punk punk....how the hell do you know who this man was?

He appeared to me to be a decent lookin guy, and his wife was horrified to watch this jack-booted thug shoot her husband with a tazer for a mere traffic citation.

This rogue cop belongs in jail.

[ArmstedFragg]

The first words out of the cop's mouth were "give me your license and registration"... instead of "I'm stopping you because you were ...."

Did you miss the part where the cop said, "Hi, you were going a little fast"? It was the first thing he said when he made contact with the guy prior to asking for his license.

[servantboy777]

>>Are you talking about the Houston Texan player.

No

[kjam22]

I did miss it.... and already acknowledged that. My question is I wonder how much faster he was going than the cop car he was following?

[brytlea]

Want another reason? thats why. Its important to all of us that the cops be respected and perceived as fair, not rogue bullies.

Thank you for saying that. That should be repeated over and over. If people lose respect for the guys out there who protect us, and feel that they are not to be trusted, we WILL have chaos.

susie

[CindyDawg]

I like to be behind them. I was driving one day (65 mph) The cop kept slowing down. I thought it was construction. At about 35, I finally went around him. He pulled me over for going too slow in the passing lane. No ticket though. I think he just wanted to look at the cop magnet I drive. He told me it was a shame and a waste of a car for me. We laughed, and I went on my way. He did set me up though.

[donna]

He wanted his pregnant wife to do it for him, LOL.

[brytlea]

I don’t think the guy was particularly smart, however he may have been very concerned about leaving his wife and small child (I think there was a small child in the car, perhaps I’m wrong) out there in the middle of nowhere while he was being arrested and taken into custody.
susie

[ArmstedFragg]

I wonder how much faster he was going than the cop car he was following?

I'm not sure 'following' is the right word. What usually happens is you're driving along at the speed limit and you see some clown come screaming up behind you. Since people are normally reluctant to speed while they're in the vicinity of a cop car, the first thing you wonder is whether the guy's drunk, fleeing frome something, or just stupid. You pull over, let him go by, then pull in behind him and clock him. That's what you witnessed at the beginning of the tape. There's another version of that routine, which involves exiting at an off ramp, letting the guy go buy, then getting right back on again. They're both time-proven techniques.

"Following" would imply that the guy was just doing what the cop was doing and the cop set him up. I suppose at some point in the history of man that's happened, but it's pretty unusual.

[CindyDawg]

I would be surprised if this guy has been in trouble before. I think he was being rightously mouthy but the look on his face when he saw the tazor and started backing away seemed shocked (no pun intended) like what’s wrong with this guy. I doubt he had any idea he was going to be arrested.

[ArmstedFragg]

I want to get their take on this.

Show 'em the whole thing from the initial contact.

[CindyDawg]

Ok

[kjam22]

We can't tell.... he may have been catching up quickly with the cop when the cop pulled over. It didn't look like he was really zipping when he went by the cop. He didn't have his brake lights on when he went by. He looked like was just putting along to me. But you're right, he may have been catching him quickly and slowed down at the last moment. Clearly he wasn't driving that fast in the 40 zone, unless the sign we see is just a reposting of the existing speed limit.

[mad_as_he$$]

No, they have to take you for a probable cause hearing; unless you have shot your mouth off and confessed or they have found enough evidence to arrest you.

[FlJoePa]

You’ve posted at least 50 (60 maybe) replies on this thread (obsess much?). You could post 600 and I wouldn’t believe that smartass cop was right in what he did - and I hope he gets shitcanned asap.

The video is there. The back-tazing cop didn’t do his job correctly - he didn’t inform the driver what would happen if he didn’t sign the ticket and he opened the passenger side door (after already scaring the poor wife nearly to death earlier) without consent.

The kicker is that it was an out and out speed-trap to begin with. Typical local yocal revenue-boosting speed-trap. When the common folk don’t fall in line with the no-neck idiot cop, what happens? They get tazed.

Screw that hammerhead cop. I hope he is working at Wendys next week.

[ArmstedFragg]

In the discussion, the cop says there was another 40 sign back up the road. The one they passed on the video looked like a temporary construction sign. Don’t know what the other one might have been, or even if it was there.

[beebuster2000]

yeah, post your answer. be intersted to hear what they say. thanks