Posted on 02/21/2012 7:44:12 AM PST by rawhide
A 20-year-old woman has been left brain dead - after she was Tasered by police and smacked her head on the ground. Danielle Maudsley had been taken to a Florida Highway Patrol Station after being arrested for a suspected hit-and-run in September. Handcuffed, she ran out of the door.
But as footage from a police cruiser dashboard camera reveals, Trooper Daniel Cole, who this week was cleared of any wrongdoing, fired a Taser's electric probes into her back.
She spun, fell backwards and hit her head on the ground. Bleeding and crying she tried to get up. She then blacked out and has remained unconscious ever since.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnoxaB17pA4&feature=player_embedded
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Motorist kicked by Henderson cop to get settlement
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At that point, a Henderson police officer walks into camera view, steps up to Greene and kicks him five times in the head, twice with his left foot, three more with his right. The officer then walks away nonchalantly, and turns briefly toward the direction of the NHP cruiser whose camera is pointed his way.
With Greene subdued on the ground, an officer searches his pockets and finds a vial of insulin and announces it to everyone, looking up to the sky. “He could be a diabetic,” he says.
“Yeah, I see that,” someone answers.
Someone else says to a dispatcher over the radio: “He’s a diabetic. He’s probably in shock, semiconscious.”
You are an idiot! IMHO. Maybe if someone tasered you to death while you are sound asleep in your own bed, we here at FR would not have to wonder anymore whether or not you wandered over here from DU.
This says more about you than it does him!!!
Once a prisoner is arrested and handcuffed he/she is supposed to be under the control and *protection* of the police. Crime not withstanding, physical condition, mental state immaterial.
She might have been a dirtbag; but she was not a convicted dirtbag yet. She was not a direct threat to anyone; the police have a responsibility to protect prisoners from themselves, even if it means breaking a sweat.
If the gov’t criminalizes dissent, it could be you. “Killed while trying to escape” is an old dodge.
I think the cop should lose his job, not because of weight or the tazing but because he failed to properly restrain his perp. That is unforgivable. He put the whole departmnet and the public at large in great danger.
Jeff, you appear to be a thoughtful person. Have you considered that maybe she was running for her life from a lazy taser-happy cop, who she may have thought was about to taser her to death? The taser option appears to be the first and only option in this case. The cop couldn’t have known a dash cam video was catching his actions on tape, therefore his carelessness. Also, the girl may have been allowed to “escape,” if only temporarily, or she may have even been scared into running. Tasers are lethal in and of themselves, no doubt about it.
A taser shot can cause ventricular fibrillation 3 out of one hundred times, depending on the electrical cycle of the heart at the time of the application of the jolt.
Ken - an excellent example of the exception proving the rule. I do not know what you do for a living, but ask yourself if you can think of at least one booger eating moron in your field that you know would be an embarassment to you and your co-workers. They are everywhere. When they are cops, they are extremely troubling. I hope that cop either received sever reprimands and training, or was canned.
Well played sir. Well played.
who said anything about the specifics of the crime ??? i merely spoke of the police over-reach and 'us vs them' cheerleading on this thread, to comply or die...
your words were...
Has nothing to do with what she was arrested for. People can't be allowed to just run from an arrest.
evidently, you believe that *any* arrest for *any* offense, real or perceived, is grounds for the aforementioned 'comply or die'...
at the pace the police state is gearing up, ya might outta prepare to make that choice in realtime...
but you prolly think that you are an 'only one' or at the very least, will be eaten last...good luck with that...
Since you are here, be aware of the fact that you may eventually be designated an enemy of the Regime, in need of reeducation in a FEMA camp! They're probably recruiting guards over at DU.
Since you are here, be aware of the fact that you may eventually be designated an enemy of the Regime, in need of reeducation in a FEMA camp! They're probably recruiting guards over at DU.
>Since you stick by the perp then, you can maybe pay her hit and run victim. I don’t have an ounce of sympathy for the brain dead hit and run perp who was attempting to run a second time. If the cop had tackled her and bruised her fragile ego you’d be bitching about brutality<
If the cop had tackled her he wouldn’t have stuck his locality with the hundreds of thousands of dollars (with more to come) it’s cost to keep her in some facility on life support. And guess who pays? The taxpayers who pay Officer Too Lazy to Run.
Which capital offense was she killed for - hit and run, or avoiding arrest?
Which Florida Statute is it that makes these two crimes punishable by death?
What happened to the lie that was told when tasers were first bought- that is, they will only be used as a less lethal weapon when a LEO (or civilian) is in danger? Was Officer Fatman in fear of his life?
One need not approve of criminal acts to recognize that the police are not supposed to be at war with citizens.
She was fleeing from the police. The police used reasonable force to stop her. She was unlucky.
Tough.
He probably needed his first donut fix of the day and was suffering from PDS - Pre-Donut Syndrome, when he was subject to extreme mood swings and irritability.
Piss off, noob. When you have spent more than a MONTH on Free Republic, then maybe someone will give a damn what you think.
Jack Burton007 Since Jan 24, 2012
Jewbacca,
I understand completely. And if your relative had been alive in Nazi Germany, undoubtedly she would never have tried to escape from the Gestapo, but quietly followed orders into the cattle car.
Just be aware that sometimes there are reasons to run from authority. There are never reasons to do what officer Fatman did. However, after reading the rest of the posts here, and seeing that it happened in Seminole, it is no surprise.
She had been involved in two hit and runs. She was wanted on a areest warrant. She and her mother had been involved in drugs.
The police located and arrested her and while sha was waiting for booking, she made an attempt to escape, running out of the police office.
Bad decision number umpteen.
What she was running for was to escape justice and the consequences for her actions to that point where she had shown she was a danger to society...not "running for her life."
The large policeman chasing her could have tackled her, then having a 250+ pound man fall on a 100 lb girl which easily could have injured her and had a batter chance of doing so than the taser.
In addition, had she not been injured by the tackle, and scuffled with the officer and continued to try and escape, which she clearly was already showing a propsesity to do, then she may have been able to get the officers weapon. Also a very much undesired event but one that happens too often.
The officer did the least forceful and lethal thing he could do while maintaining his own safety to apprehend an individual that was a danger to society.
Tragically, she hit her head when she fell. But that was all a result of a multitude of very poor, and increasingly bad decisions she made that put the officer in that position, not the other way around.
Look, I am the first to call police powers when they are abused and have personally stood up to that abuse by the state at places like Jarbidge, Nevada, and Klamath Falls, Oregpon during the Klamath Water Crisis.
But this was not that, or like, for example when Elian Gonzales was taken from his family. This was a tragic accident that occured when an individual who had endagnered and injured the public, tried to escape justice, tried to get away form the consequences of the felonious/criminal actions she had already committed. This was not the officer's fault and I will not knee jerk and call it that when, IMHO, it is so clearly not so.
So now the penalty for being a moron is death. Great!!!
That penalty is imposed often, and usually not by the police.
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