Posted on 11/14/2013 7:27:50 AM PST by Gamecock
Police officers in the city of Louisiana, Missouri used the stun gun to stop Ryan Miller after he kicked in a front door and tried to enter his house to rescue his 3-year-old stepson, Riley.
Officers on the scene felt it was too dangerous to let anybody go in. ...Miller was tased three times, then handcuffed and thrown in the back of a police car.
The boy's body was eventually found 12 to 15 feet from the front door.
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I thought fire fighters rescued people. Were the cops there before the fire dept?
Read about this several days ago. Tragic.
So he willingly puts his life in danger as most dads would without even a thought, and the cops tase him to ‘protect his life’ and let the kid die.
Leave us the (’intercourse’) alone! Let us live our lives! We don’t need the armed extension of the government preventing us from protecting our kids.
God help us, that poor man.
Something similar happened in San Francisco:
There was a suicide attempt drowning in the bay within reach of the shore. Fire and paramedics stood and watched as the union rules and saftey guidelines prevented fire/paramedics from effecting a rescue. The water rescue supposedly fell under the jurisdiction of the Coast Guard. A bystander entered the water and brought the man to shore where paramedics treated him the suicide attempt. The rescuer was cited and I believe arrested for swimmng in an unauthorized area.
This was posted a week ago.
The firemen, in gear, decided that it was too dangerous to attempt rescue.
The man was tased because he tried to rush past the firemen into the blaze without equipment.
The police prevented him from effectively committing suicide.
In other words, you would prefer that he was dead and that his wife were a widow and his other child fatherless?
By the way, the only people who let the child die were the stepfather and the the child's mother - they fled the house and left the child inside.
By the time police and fire arrived, the child was already dead.
That is so disgusting, I am speechless.
I was trying to give the cops the benefit of the doubt. Better one death than two.
My husband furiously quashed that. “It’s my right, as a husband and a father, to die for my family. Period.”
Agreed. A horrible situation for all concerned. Just sad.
Looks like you’re trying to incite the Badge Bunnies and Holster Sniffers.
He wasn't dying for his family - he was dying just to die.
His living family at that moment was his wife and his other child, and he was hurting them by running into that fire, not helping.
While I acknowledge that this man, and also your husband, may allow their emotions to prevail over their better judgement, for your sake and his family's sake it's good that an observer with better judgment is sometimes able to intervene.
When was , “Talking to Citizens” ,removed from Police Officers training and replaced with shoot first
The latently brutal and bad police are getting out of control, literally, which is always seen during every slide down into tyranny.
What decent human being - whether he has a badge or a holster or not - stands around and watches a guy burn himself to death in front of his wife?
Too bad the guy didn’t have a dog....the cops would have busted in lookng to shoot the dog and would have found the kid...
In a free society, shouldn’t the decision as to whether a father’s love for his son is worth dieing for lie with the father and not with the government?
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