BART PD Chief Gary Gee is on far right of photo (shows him as he appeared many years ago)
Posted on 01/07/2009 2:10:16 PM PST by LuxMaker
1. I couldn’t see what happened at all.
2. BART cop?
3. The penalty for shooting a gangster should be receipt of a coupon for a free box of ammunition.
> There was a time a bunch of young males fighting was just
> broken up and everyone sent on their way, one way or
> another. Now a common young buck fight fest is a full
> employment feast for the security bureaucracy and other
> state organs.
Yes, overreaction by the security brigades is a real problem, and it certainly contributed to this fiasco. That’s a bigger issue than whether the cop meant to shoot the guy, though.
BART PD Chief Gary Gee is on far right of photo (shows him as he appeared many years ago)
What kind of drugs do you take to make up a feel good liberal line like that!!! Ever thought of taking up fiction writing???
I was looking at Tasers and I was amazed that they were, basically, gun colored.
Seeing how under stress one could reach for a Taser, yet because of training react with a gun, the last signal to a mistaken brain( the officers ) would be a strong color, like yellow.
Everything about the Taser and it’s use is gun like, save its effect.
A good Police department would spray paint its Taser. Not going to happen, I suppose.
We are asking/demanding that human beings, in this case Police, intervene too deeply into common human activity.
The same unreal notions of state perfection that we see in radical environmentalism, 10’s of thousand of Rabbinical hairsplitting laws, happens in the police who are required to, now, basically control everyone to the minutest behaviour.
> A good Police department would spray paint its Taser. Not
> going to happen, I suppose.
That is an excellent suggestion! I don’t see why they wouldn’t, or why the manufacturer wouldn’t use different colors. I suspect they may not have thought of it.
The story in the SF Chron said that usually Tasers are stored backwards-facing and carried in a holster on the opposite side of the policeman’s regular carry holster.
Sometimes that doesn’t happen, and they stated that Tasers are in such short supply that officers do not usually carry them, and when they get them they may have a tendency to mistake their gun for thier Taser, as apparently happened in this case.
Ed
I agree
The BART boxcars are waiting.
Why would he direct his taser directly at the head?
There is no excuse for this. The holsters are different, deployment is different, and the devices themselves have a radically different feel.
All the LEOs that I know wear the Taser on the Weak side.
Nice idea except for that little bitty thing about "innocent until proven guilty", "Rule of Laws, not men", you know archaic and backward things.
After you prove them guilty in a court of law, then you get your free box of Ammo and a cheeseburger
Words fail me.
I realize there are many different models of tasers and each department will use different models. And I realize that some taser models look like, aim, and activate like pistols.
However that said every taser I have actually seen up close in use by my local officers, and not on a web page, don’t look like pistols, and they use the thumb to activate. Their pepper spray is canistered and also use the thumb (or index finger vertically like spray paint). You don’t confuse either with a pistol.
I can’t remember the last time I used my thumb to activate my sidearm. And that’s another problem with claiming he thought it was a taser and not a pistol.
Point being is the pistol, taser, and spray each are held differently. The two “non-lethal” use the thumb to activate. I can only go by what I’ve seen at my local departments however.
Not making excuses for the cop.
Who are you trying to kid? That statement is sillier than saying "you're an idiot, but I mean that in a good way."
If that was the mistake made, the cop deserves time in prison.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.