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Undercover officers use Taser on pallbearer
BreitBart/AP ^ | 11/19/2008 | n/a

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: barneyfife; cultureofcorruption; donutwatch; gort; guncontrol; jbts; lp; taser; thugwithabadge
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To: Chinstrap61a
You don't really have a life, do you Roscoe?

You're the one hanging around for me to spank.

141 posted on 11/19/2008 6:25:22 PM PST by Mojave (http://www.americanbacklash.com/)
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To: Chinstrap61a; Mojave; dcwusmc

I can’t believe that even a badge bunny would defend these Barneys!

Police training? I bet these guys failed toilet training!


142 posted on 11/19/2008 6:25:34 PM PST by Eaker (Dutch expression "You can give a monkey a gold ring, but it stays an ugly thing." - EscapedDutch)
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To: Eaker

Have you ever arrested a perp? I’m just wondering where you get your expertise.


143 posted on 11/19/2008 6:27:11 PM PST by Mojave (http://www.americanbacklash.com/)
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To: Eaker

Hey, they got to taze this idiot. That beats anything we have done.

I’m from North Carolina. We live for this stuff. We had a brawl at the funeral home a few months back.


144 posted on 11/19/2008 6:32:10 PM PST by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: Mojave

Being an intelligent man I know stupid when I see it. It is called experience. It doesn’t appear anybody on this thread but you think these Barneys are police material. After this shithead dropped his gun then began waving it he probably would have been shot in Texas and no-billed by the Grand Jury.

Have you ever not been a badge bunny? You seem quite expert at that.


145 posted on 11/19/2008 6:43:09 PM PST by Eaker (Dutch expression "You can give a monkey a gold ring, but it stays an ugly thing." - EscapedDutch)
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To: Eaker
Being an intelligent man I know stupid when I see it.

Oh. Were you there?

146 posted on 11/19/2008 7:16:04 PM PST by Mojave (http://www.americanbacklash.com/)
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To: mlocher

Too funny!


147 posted on 11/19/2008 7:24:18 PM PST by NYTexan
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To: dcwusmc
Thanks for the ping.

I've written her off as a whacker, a cop wannabe, a police poseur, one of those ham radio weirdos with the homemade uniform (think Trekkie) who rushes to the scenes of car wrecks and waves the flashlight (with the attached red cone) in order to experience orgasms she can't get anywhere else.

They're also the glamour whores, the types who sign on to be a First Responder or in the Rescue Squad, etc, the first ones to bail when they discover that instead of a lot of face time on the 6 O'clock News, (she's a Hero, dammit!) they spend a lot of time hosing blood off the roadway.

I bet this putz has more lights on her Chevette than any fire engine on Earth. 

148 posted on 11/19/2008 7:26:52 PM PST by JoJo Gunn (Stupid people shouldn't breed.)
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To: Mojave

That is the difference between an intelligent person and you. You apparently have to physically do something to know if it is stupid or not. Some of us can just figure it out without doing it. You seem to defend these idiots because that would be your level of expertise.

It is clear reading the level of your responses that this is like showing a chicken a card trick. Are you defending the dumbass cop who shot himself in a classroom full of kids too?

Obviously you are a badge bunny and not a cop as you would have to wear a diaper from all of the boots in your ass..


149 posted on 11/19/2008 7:28:53 PM PST by Eaker (Dutch expression "You can give a monkey a gold ring, but it stays an ugly thing." - EscapedDutch)
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To: Mojave

So what, you saying YOU got busted back in ‘06? Whatever FOR, Roscoe? Did they Taze you, bro? Hope so! It’d be really fitting!


150 posted on 11/19/2008 7:34:35 PM PST by dcwusmc (We need to make government so small that it can be drowned in a bathtub.)
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To: 100%FEDUP; 2ndMostConservativeBrdMember; ~Vor~; a4drvr; Adder; Aegedius; Afronaut; alethia; ...
It happened as the coffin was being loaded into a hearse.

Couldn't they just wait until the guy was leaving the funeral?

NC *Ping*

Please FRmail MitchellC if you want to be added to or removed from this North Carolina ping list.
151 posted on 11/19/2008 7:43:58 PM PST by MitchellC (RINO? GTHO.)
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To: Eaker
Some of us can just figure it out without doing it.

But you didn't. You came to the wrong conclusion, even with your ignorance to help you.

[snicker]

152 posted on 11/19/2008 7:44:00 PM PST by Mojave (http://www.americanbacklash.com/)
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To: dcwusmc
YOU got busted back in ‘06?

No. Too much oxycontin?

153 posted on 11/19/2008 7:45:27 PM PST by Mojave (http://www.americanbacklash.com/)
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To: JoJo Gunn

I see from your link that whackers have to do with fire departments, primarily volunteer. My son’s a fireman back in Virginia... says he’s living his dream! (Which also includes my DIL and granddaughter!) (My stepson’s got the other two grandkids!)


154 posted on 11/19/2008 7:46:12 PM PST by dcwusmc (We need to make government so small that it can be drowned in a bathtub.)
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To: MitchellC
Couldn't they just wait until the guy was leaving the funeral?

Yeah, let's have nice car chase.

155 posted on 11/19/2008 7:46:28 PM PST by Mojave (http://www.americanbacklash.com/)
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To: Mojave

You’re right: too much like teasing a ‘tard, Roscoe..


156 posted on 11/19/2008 7:49:06 PM PST by Chinstrap61a
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To: Mojave

Not ENOUGH oxycontin I bet. But then I’m not around you to know, thank God!

Then just what IS the relevance of that pic you posted to me if it’s not YOU getting busted?


157 posted on 11/19/2008 7:49:15 PM PST by dcwusmc (We need to make government so small that it can be drowned in a bathtub.)
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To: Chinstrap61a

English, please.


158 posted on 11/19/2008 7:50:28 PM PST by Mojave (http://www.americanbacklash.com/)
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To: dcwusmc; Chinstrap61a

Ask Chinstrap61a.


159 posted on 11/19/2008 7:51:37 PM PST by Mojave (http://www.americanbacklash.com/)
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To: Mojave

Perp walked him and maybe beaten him senseless with that big ole billyclub. Good idea, Heinrich.


160 posted on 11/19/2008 7:56:12 PM PST by Thumper1960 (A modern so-called "Conservative" is a shadow of a wisp of a vertebrate human being.)
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