Posted on 08/08/2013 10:51:25 AM PDT by Blackyce
Edited on 08/08/2013 3:57:09 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP)
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They used to just hit you with the mag lite
oh cmon he was running from the police, he deserves to be shot. /s
Tasers are considered ‘non-lethal’ unless YOU happen to use one...............
I agree. Shucks, Andy of Mayberry was a peace officer, now we have “law enforcement officers”. Send out a swat team to kill a fawn?
Shoot a 90+ year old man with “safe” sandbags shot out of a 12 gauge shotgun because he wouldn’t take his medicine?
It is way out of hand.
Real men could have taken care of this without this nonsense.
Sounds about right. Or the baton. Pretty sure there haven’t been 600 or so maglite deaths over the past decade though. What happen to a good ole fashioned questionably appropriate ass kicking? People survived those if nothing else.
I'm probably an awful person for thinking what I am thinking.
White cop and minority kid? Demonstrations. Outrage.
Any color cop and White kid? Apathy.
TASER International was founded in 1993 to develop non-lethal weapons in the belief that non-
lethal alternatives to lethal force can reduce
the incidence of death and serious injury from
incidents involving violent interpersonal conflict.
Was the teaser black???
His crime was then trying to sneak back in to the show. The police were called. They pepper sprayed the teen heavily soaking his shirt, which he then tore off to stop the effects of the pepper spray. The police decided this was "strange" behavior, tasered him 19 times and dragged behind a truck in the parking lot and beat him.
My son visited him in the hospital; he was comatose and his face was split open. The parents had already made the excruciating decision to remove him from life support. My son left the room to head home, paused in the hall to compose himself, then heard the beep, beep, beep of the heart monitor change to the flatline tone.
This boy had an addiction problem but was as non-violent as a person could be. He was kind hearted but young, and was making bad decisions with drugs. He was never known to have a weapon of any kind. He was small and weighed about 140 lbs.
There were at least 4 police officers on scene. Why 4 grown men had to use a taser in this situation is beyond me.
The teens cause of death was listed as "excited delirium," a diagnosis I learned only happens when a taser is used, usually when the victim has a drug in their system. As far as I know, one cannot die of "excited delirium" unless a taser has been used.
This young person made mistakes and bad decisions that night, but nothing even remotely close to an action that justified his death.
“The Effect of Less Lethal Weapons on Injuries in Police Use of Force Events”
His teachers at Miami Beach High School said he was a talented artist and photographer.
Not quite so talented at dealing with reality, it seems.
which replace the baton.
Excited delirium is common and death without taser is known to happen.
Without chemicals screwing with the heart, tasers are fairly safe. In my state everyone who carries one gets tazed as part of their training.
He chose the wrong canvass.
The cops should be prosecuted for manslaughter.
Is that because the SUVs couldn't get to him first?
Does Miami have a problem with roving gangs of Stun Guns now?
-PJ
“...and now he’s dead.”
“...usually when the victim has a drug in their system.”
Live and learn. Learn and live. Sometimes the lesson has to be for the survivors.
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