Posted on 05/06/2010 9:22:20 PM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour
Good points.
I only skimmed the article.
I did see the incident at hand and have read MANY tazer horror stories.
Tazers definitely have their purpose, it seems though that many are abusing that purpose.
It's not snappy it's moronic. If there is a law banning you from a place without authorization and you are in that place illegally you are illegally there. Hence if you are a person then you are an illegal person. Yes Sparky (author of article) people can be illegal.
Was that a cop who tazed him?
If not I would track that guy down and lay a a MAJOR beating on him.
And i was never a violent guy before 2008.
Why not just let all of the undocumented baseball players on the field? While we're at it, let's spread around the legal baseball players’, refs’, umps’ and bat boys’, as well as the fans’, salaries to the undocumented ones. If any of the undocumented trip on the field, they also deserve an expensive sports doc, an ambulance and whatever treatment is necessary, all for free, of course. After all, they paid some tax on the refreshments and the tickets (if they didn't sneak in).
All in all, we should simply stop stopping people from being where we think they don't belong; what do rules mean anyway? How dare we not trust a person with unknown intentions running (and running and running) somewhere he wasn't supposed to be!
Recall the 1980 Phillies. I found a Youtube video of the final out of the World Series, which included a shot of some police K-9 teams behind home plate ( noted by the announcer, ) but I didn’t find what I was looking for. That is, a shot of the mounted police patrolling the warning track en masse. I’m guessing this was at the end of one of the playoff series. This was widely viewed at the time as a fascistic display, but nobody got tased, and nobody even THOUGHT about running on to the field. Of course this was under Mayor Frank Rizzo.
It was a police officer who Tasered the young man.
The gleeful reaction to the tasering of that young man is as sickening as the tasering itself.
There is some serious lack of humanity going on here.
But I think this has to do with the feminization of the police force. Most women weren't capable of taking down a big male suspect so they gave them tools and new rules of engagement so they could. Once new tools and rules were introduced, everyone has to do the same... That lowest common denominator thing...
But I could be wrong...
All right then.....
I remember being 18 years old back in 1985.
I was working sporting goods at the local Lechmere department store.
An asian guy came up to me and my buddy and showed us a hand held tazer weapon.
Giant sparks from 2 AA batteries or a 9 volt, i forget.
We were amazed.
Then i learned how to build a much stronger one.....
never used it on a person though.
We did shock some kids in electronics class with giant capacitors.....
That was fun.
I kinda agree with you, that the police as a whole seem to be more fearful of doing the job and as a byproduct only seem comfortable when at invasion force level numbers or approaching every situation with a gun in their hands.
And they seem all too quick to use deadly force for lesser and lesser crimes, all in the name of “officer safety”. When the national stats clearly show their occupation is one of the safest one’s you can get.
Don't call me brow, bro! I'm gonna taze ya!
I agree with you. And if that was his only point I'd have agreed with him. I'm seeing the same thing more and more. Its like a new toy and they've just got to try it out. Officer thinks you're a bit mouthy, down you go.
Now, junior high school teachers, thats another thing. It should be considered basic equipment.
Peoples imagination takes a hold when they think of getting stunned by one of these weapons.
Akin to the fear a kid has when gets his first vacinations. Your brain sykes you out.
You are right on, but you left out affimative action, law suits from physical takedowns, and junkies with contaminated Aids needles, and many other things.
So were those the good old days.. or what.....
run out on the field, disrupt the game for tens of thousands of people — good grief I can’t believe anyone would whine about him getting his butt tased. Probably deserved a few whacks with a nightstick as well just to remind him the next day not to be such a fool again.
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