Hearing Impaired Man Tased by Police

KWCH ^ | 12/3/07 | Michael Schwanke

[ishabibble]

There has been a rash of these bogus calls. Here is one example.

http://heraldnet.com/article/20071016/NEWS01/71016015

Whoever does something like this should get life in prison.
This deaf man could have been killed.

[dmw]

Let me see if I understand you correctly.

A guy refuses to cooperate with a cop on the side of a highway, puts his hand in his pocket while walking away from him, and you say he should not have been tasered.

BUT, you have no problem with this deaf guy who is standing there all wet in nothing but a bath towel getting tasered because he’s pointing at his freaking ear.

Gee, that makes sense doesn’t it? /sarc

[dmw]

Thought you’d be interested in sending this to your ping list.

[proudofthesouth]

I agree. Where did they expect him to be hiding a gun? Up his butt?

[Charlespg]

We’ve got to take these thug’s new “tool” away until they learn that it’s a potentially LETHAL weapon, not a plaything to be used when the urge hits.

Thank you

[Malsua]

Where did they expect him to be hiding a gun? Up his butt?

Probably large caliber with a 15 round magazine too. I'd like to see this hero cop walk out of a store somewhere, sometime and get a nice tazering when he least expects it. Put it on max duration and walk away.

[Dagamore]

the only account of the incident is from the deaf guy, if what he said is 100% accurate, then the police that were involved at the least need more training. But if he was turning away from the police, or starting to leave the area, tasing him was possibly the best option.

i dont get why every one wants to take all of the tools away from the police, then gets outraged when they use the few tools they have left. Now if you bruise a suspect they get to sue for police brutality. If you take all the tools away but the hammer all you problems will look like nails.

[6SJ7]

Note to cops ... they're trying to make bobbies out of you.

I don't know about bobbies. Looks like the cops were more boobies.   ;-)

[TangoLimaSierra]

Every cop involved should be fired, and bared from ever working as a cop again....”bared?”..Was that Freudian?

[Mrs.Liberty]

ping

[Larry Lucido]

This one occurred on the worst of calls, that being a shooting.

Except it wasn't a shooting. It wasn't anything.

[knarf]

My point is;

The cops get a call ... a cell phone call .. all they know is there has been a shooting ..

"Police forced entry into Williams home while responding to a shooting, but it turned out to be a false call. They had no idea at the time the call wasn't real and that Williams is hearing impaired. Without his hearing aid he is basically deaf."

A guy coming out of a shower can be a diversion to let a perp slip out the back window or something ...

I don't know ... but there sure seems to be a lot of anti-TASER activity these days.

We here in FreeRepublic .. if not aware of, are at least suspicious of ... the attempts to take our nation from us ... we should never forget the tactic of the enemy ... incrementalism.

No matter how small or seemingly insignificant the attempt or worse, damage .. they keep chipping away.

[knarf]

P.S.

Wasn't it in Wichita where the Clutter family was so brutally attacked and murdered?

[blackdog]

Wife feels blue. Wife wants more freedom. Wife calls cops, someone with a gun or husband has a gun and barricaded himself in the house. Husband is drunk and waiving around a weapon.

Presto Dispatcho! A LEO hit squad is rocketing to the scene. Break door down....locate unwitting hubby who responds with WTF? Bang-Bang.........Insurance settlement and a condo in Cancun for the widow.

At least the tazer avoids the above outcome.

[merry10]

“I would think several million dollars from the PD department will make him hear better in the future.”

hmmmm....how do you figure this?

[phrogphlyer]

“Do I wish there would have been some way they were notified in advance this gentleman was hearing impaired? I certainly do.”

Sounds an awful lot like, "do I wish there would have been some way for us to know every single detail about every single person living in our jurisdiction? I certainly do." And they wonder why people dislike cops.

[Red Badger]

As a deaf wearer of a hearing aid I can fully sympathize with this man. I have often wondered if some day I might be in a situation where the cops might do something to me when they thought I wasn’t complying simply because I couldn’t hear them.........

[SUSSA]

Could be, but more like the result of not having my first cup of coffee at the time. :)

[Jagman]

It seems the Taser has officially replaced the nunchaku as the inexperienced cop’s first weapon of choice.

[verity]