Posted on 11/21/2007 11:58:07 AM PST by Sopater
An internal police investigation is under way after a formal complaint was filed against a Utah state trooper who was videotaped Tasering a man who refused to sign a speeding ticket.
The officer's conduct has been called into question after a videotape of the incident was posted on YouTube.
The video, taken from a Utah Highway Patrol dashboard camera, shows Trooper John Gardner using a Taser on Jared Massey during a traffic stop on State Road 40 in Uintah County on Sept. 14.
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Funny - I was thinking that the self-aggrandizing idiot with the taser should have gotten the snot kicked out of him. Nothing like a good case of power gone to the head of an individual in uniform. It's pretty obvious that somebody was abusing their own authority.
The whole concept of the people obeying the "commands" of the hired government revenuers over a simple traffic ticket is borderline ridiculous.
Yep, turn a revenue generating speed trap into a death penalty machine. Smooth move. How do you sleep at night?
If you don't like the current state of the law, I would suggest that you try to change it, not heap scorn on those who point out what the law is.
Your response says volumes about you and your “character”.
This cop had clear intentions of Tazing the dude as soon as he told him to get out of his car.
POS pig.
“If you don’t like the current state of the law, I would suggest that you try to change it, not heap scorn on those who point out what the law is”
Speed traps are illegal in most states and are scorn worthy everywhere.
Abuse of authority, murder, abusing your capacity as a public official, and using excessive force are also illegal.
The OFFICER in this case felt so threatened that he turned his back on the driver for several seconds. The post I was replying to supported use of deadly force for behavior that obviously did not warrant deadly force. Using the logic in that post the officer would be justified to shoot the wife since she was already in the car (aka a deadly weapon). Further, cops would be justified in shooting everyone who was near a vehicle (aka dead weapon).
Sheer nonsense worthy of scorn and condemnation.
So a taser is a nice way to get someone's attention? You don't think that's just a bit over-the-top? Wouldn't there be far better ways to get someone to listen before running electrical charges through a person's body? Just askin'.
People on this thread keep saying, “Sign the ticket and be on your way.” But if singing the ticket is an admission of guilt, then why in the world should I admit to something that I didn’t do for the sake of expediency?
I agree with you; blindly supporting cops, especially when their behavior is completely out of line, is not a conservative trait. It’s fascist and the beginning of a police state.
I consider myself a real conservative, in the sense that the moral and ethical values that formed our nation should be preserved. I believe that we have watched a steady erosion of those values and our freedoms with them, these last few decades.
The most sobering of all has been the very real division between our government and the rest of us when all of us were meant to be part of our government.
This incident with this police officer is just one part of this sad evolution - the young man was too questioning, too full of himself and the police officer hurt him in front of his family for no other reason than to show him his place in the new hierarchy.
This officer and others like him need to be removed from office and replaced with others that understand what this country really means and the value of all of its citizens.
This is as good a place as any to reverse this tide, back to our country and freedom.
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