Posted on 11/19/2008 12:57:40 PM PST by fishhound
WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) - A North Carolina sheriff's official has apologized for plunging a funeral into chaos when undercover agents tried to arrest the dead man's son—and used a Taser on him in the process.
It happened as the coffin was being loaded into a hearse. The officers planned to quietly arrest pallbearer Gladwyn Taft Russ III, The Star-News of Wilmington reported Wednesday.
Relatives said two deputies dressed in coats and ties grabbed Russ and kneed him in his back before Tasering him. One deputy's gun fell out of its holster.
Russ' sister, Taffy Gause, said when she got out of the car a deputy "was waving a gun at me and my mom and yelling to get back or he was going to shoot." She said some mourners went home instead of going to the cemetery.
Russ, 42, had failed to surrender after being charged with threatening his ex-wife who lives in another state, officials said. Following his father's death Nov. 11, Russ agreed to surrender after the funeral.
When deputies approached Russ during the Saturday funeral, he "went wild" and spat on the officers, said New Hanover County sheriff's chief deputy Ed McMahon.
McMahon said the officers should have waited until after the cemetery service.
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So the police officers thought that disrupting a funeral of all things was the right place and time to take him down. Then one of the geniuses drops his gun. Then another of the Mensa Club members tases the guy, followed by another brandishing at the mother.
If you think that this passes for the best in law enforcement, you probably think the cops at Columbine did a heroic job too..
Garcia evaded arrest for nearly four years. Your attempt to misuse the memory of a dead officer to justify your attacks on the police is ghoulish and shameful.
If the jackboots knew who he was, why didn’t they simply stake out all exits of the cemetery, and if he didn’t hold to his promise and tried to bolt after the funeral, then they could’ve tailed him and nailed him?
Are your racist fulminations tolerated by your department?
Your pointlessly and inanely dragging the name of your niece's husband into the discussion is just plain sick.
You need to take a few deep breaths.
He had already violated an earlier promise to surrender. They shouldn't have wasted a dime of the scofflaw.
Mojave (or Roscoe, as he used to be known) is an unrepentant cop sucker. NOTHING a LEO does is wrong in his eyes. And if you challenge him in any detail, you know, like providing actual facts and evidence, you are immediately a perp or a wannabee perp... Any disrespect you show to even the most roguish cop will get you blistered with Roscoe’s flamethrower. He’s been a statist authoritarian for years.
Now you're making stuff up. Where did you come up with that piece of spurious data? If the local police were talking to the guy routinely, it would not have been a huge challenge to take him right after the funeral.
"With a cavity search and a Black Sheriff."
Now you didn't answer my question - does your supervisor tolerate that kind of comment from one of his employees?
About as long as it took you to start foaming at the mouth again, Roscoe... You had your rabies shot yet?
This is the third time it has been posted in the thread.
“Before the younger Russ was arrested, the New Hanover County Sheriff’s Office was already a bit leery of the man because he had barricaded himself in his house Nov. 8 when they went to serve a warrant for reportedly threatening to kill his estranged wife, McMahon said. They backed off after he agreed to turn himself in that Monday – the day his father was supposed to have surgery. Nov. 10 came and went without the younger Russ surrendering, McMahon said.”
I laughed so hard my wife had to come into the den to see what was so funny!
Semper fi!
“Before the younger Russ was arrested...They backed off after he agreed to turn himself in that Monday – the day his father was supposed to have surgery. Nov. 10 came and went without the younger Russ surrendering, McMahon said.”
Not exactly the same thing as "refusing to surrender", is it Roscoe?
And your response on the racist statement you made was..?
Sure it is, tpaine.
He refused the warrant once and barricaded himself in a house. After promising to surrender later, he called the Sheriffs and let them know he wasn't going to honor that agreement.
Maybe they should have waited for him to flee to Mexico.
I'm still laughing!
So the "perp" called the cops to tell then that he'd be attending the funeral, huh? Sounds like a REAL tough case to crack - and really dangerous guy.
You weren't the one dropping his gun, were you, Roscoe?
“Would you arrest a guy at a funeral?”
Only after a good tazing
And that's where they caught him. The cops won, your perp lost.
Too bad for you.
Sad. Need to get your head out of your... computer once in a while/.
Now, what about that racist comment - your supervisor really go along with that stuff or would he toss your butt out on the street?
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