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
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You are a despicable piece of excrement, unworthy of FR.
Jumping to conclusions there buddy.
After my last account was closed out I came back with a new one after a year or so absence.
Buddy, accounts aren't "closed out". One is either banned or their account is active. One or the other.
I see why you were previously banned.
I agree with you.
This was a predictable accident on the drug addled woman’s part.
“. What he did was tame compared to what I would have done if it had been me she hit and ran from. I would have probably been tazed to get me off her”
And with that statement you prove exactly my point, lazy fat slobs who are too lazy to do their job and do it properly. Like I said before, you like what this cop did, I am sure he will gladly take your personal assets to pay the court ordered damages he is going to face for his idiotic an lazy actions. But somehow I suspect all your bluster about being proud of this cop commiting manslaughter will not result in you selling your home to help keep him from losing his.
There is no comparison to innocent people fleeing Nazis and this woman, already a fugitive from justice having fled the scene of a serious accident, fleeing for a second time.
Manslaughter is a rediculous charge and alegation against this officer. it will never be made, and it could never be sustained...would probably very quickly be no-billed by any grand jury presented with it.
This lady was into drigs, as was her mother, she had taken someone else’s vehicle without permission and wrecked it into two other vehicles and then left the scenes in both cases committing hit and run. Then she evaded police capture and was ultimately arrested. While awaiting booking on these charges, she ran out of the building in a wild attempt to escape.
That line of very bad decisions led to this situation. Not the police officer.
He gave chase and had to make a fairly quick decision before she got to the street or some where else where she was going to be a greater threat to herself, and because of her fleeing, to others who would have to try and avoid her.
He was much larger than she and had he takled her, which it appears he could have done, his own weight very easily could have injured her, perhaps seriously. If he had, I am sure you and others would have accused him of brutality for that.
Or, if he did not hurt her in the process, she could have continued to try and escape and in the scuffle may have gotten a hold of his gun. It happens all too often and becomes a very dangerous situation to all involved and those standing near.
So, he used the least lethal avenue available to him at the time and as the result of a quick judgement call.
I agree with his judgement.
Unfortunately, a terrible accident occurred and she hit her head. It was an accident that could have also happened in any of the other scenarios.
It was also an accident where the responsibility lies at her feet. At any point in that decision chain she could have chosen a better course and avoided these terrible consequences.
I am sorry she was injured so terriby and is now in a very serious coma and not likely to recover (though some have). But I am definitely not sorry she is off the street. With her clear and demonstrable attitude, it was only a matter of time before she injured somone, possibly seriously, or killed someone as a result of her criminal behavior.
What’s so funny is that the very same people so upset he tased her rather than chased her would be screaming just as loud had he tackled her and she hit her head with the same results...
Sorry, darnright, I disagree.
As she was running, grabbbing her, tackling her, any of that while running like they were could have caused either or both to fall and injure one or both. A scuffle could have ensueed and particularly if a person is on drugs, the outcome is not certain.
Perps get officers guns far too often and the result is then a very deadly situation. If you are wearing your sidearm, one of the last things you want to do is to allow a fleeing perp, a fugitive, to get anywhere near your weapon in a scuffle or physical match. They have already shown by fleeing that their intent is not to remain captured at almost any cost.
He made a call based on his training and I cannot fault him for it.
As I have said, this lady had shown she was very capable of injuring others or worse...and she didn’t care enough to even stick around and see on two different hit and run cases.
She was known to be into drugs. She took another persons vehicle.
Then, when finally arrested sho took the first chance and tried to escape.
The outcome was a terrible accident...which by the way could have equally happened in the other scenarios had the officer tried them...but it was an accident that at every phase of the decision chain leading up to it, this lady could have avoided by simply making a good choice. She didn’t.
The officer could not be expected to just “let her go,” she was under arrest and his job was to stop her...and he did. Sadly with tragic results...but those results can and should not be laid at anyone else’s feet except the woman herself.
This officer did not abuse his authority, or try to harm or injure this woman in the least. He tried to stop her with as little force and danger to all involved as possible in the circumstances. In this cae, the terrible accident occurred.
As I have said, I am sorry she and her family are going through this tragedy, but I am not sorry she is no longer on the street. She was an accident, more crime, and real potential injury to innocent bystanders waiting to happen. She had proven it by her own actions.
Yep...no doubt. And she was that accident...and probbaly to innocent citizens...waiting to happen if she had not been taken off the street.
I am not sad that she is no longer on the street and a threat to others that she so clearly was.
I feel for her parents and family, and for her...but the fault all lies at her feet...she could have changed the outcome at any point by simply making the right decision.
Instead, she chose to use drugs.
She chose to take comeone else’s car without permission.
She chose to leave the scene of two accident she caused...where others easily could have been injured and she didn’t even care enough to stick around and see.
She chose to avoid arrest.
She chose to try and escape once she was arrested.
All of those choices led to the terrible accident that occured when this LEO simply tried to do his job and stop her with as little force as he could given the circumstances and choices presented to him.
Take care bro. BZ.
Whoa, they found that couple? I guess I should read the whole article.
Didn’t the man in the last car crash die?
Wrong couple! There was another couple that were being chased through three states, that were involved in two different car accidents in stolen cars, Idaho, WA and Oregon.
These actions clearly fit the charge of involuntary manslaughter.
Now the department is going to give this cover and already has, so the fix is in, so he won’t face criminal charges for his act, but he will be destroyed and rightly so for his actions in civil court, as will the department.
As to your allegations that he made the right decision, or that she would get his gun? Seriously? Did you even look at the film? A woman who’s hands are handcuffed behind her back, is going to somehow overpower an officer weighing nearly 3 times what she does, grab his gun during that struggle and shoot him the entire time her hands are cuffed behind her back? Wow, talk about reaching into unreality to defend an indefensible position.
Go look at the tape, the mans arm was literally less than 3 feet from her, he never bothered to try to run or catch her, he just decided I’m going to use what is meant to be a last resort to deadly force, to simply do what breaking out of a TROT could have done, but he was too fat and lazy to do it.
Now had he tackled her and she hit her head during that, I’d be the first to simply say accident, this wasn’t an accident, this was an fat, lazy idiot hiding behind a badge. If this guy is so rediculously wimpy or pathetically inept that he couldn’t cover less than 3 feet of distance against a handcuffed woman who he outweighed by over 100 lbs, then the guy has no business being a cop, PERIOD.
Let me cuff your hands behind your back, then duct tape your into a position so NO MUSCLE IN YOUR BODY CAN REACT and then I’ll topple you backwards back of your head to concrete, and then, you get up and tell me how that’s the same as being subdued.. and it is not a lick of difference.
This guy used a tazer for what should have been a simple couple of steps and a grab, that he was too fat, too lazy, or both to do, pure and simple. The guy has no business being a cop, and those that defend him either haven’t watched the tape, really need glasses, or are simply sadists who need their bloodlust quelled in some fashion.
Not hardly, had he chased and subdued her and her head hit the ground as part of being tackled or some other manner, that’s not remotely the same thing.
However this lardass was too lazy to even try to do that.. the fact this idiot decided that to capture a woman less than 3 feet from him, with her hands already cuffed behind her back, and that he outweighed by over 150 lbs, using a weapon that is intended to be used as an alternate to deadly force to do the same thing is why he deserves bounced.
If you wouldn’t pull a gun and shoot someone in a situation, you shouldn’t be pulling a taser. Its an alternate to deadly force, not a crutch for lazy fat ass cops.
Just listen to your absolutely over the top emotional rants and accusations.
“Lard ass”, “fat”, “Lazy”, etc., etc.
You have no personal knowledge to make such judgements and assertions about this polie officer. You sound like someone who has it in for Law Enforcement and is looking for a reason to make such accusations. If I am wrong about your personal knowledge of this man, please enlighten me.
The simple fact is that people with handcuffs on can and do get officers guns. You avoid a scuffle and physical altercation if you are wearing a sidearm at almost all costs because of the dangers to everyone around.
In an attempt to stop her while running at full speed anything could have happened fom injury to one or both, to more serious damage. If it happened to the officer, yes she could and would try and get his gun if she thought she could. Her own action more than anything else make this conclusion too strong to avoid or disregard.
Her own actions show her lack of good judgement...not those of the officer.
His job was to stop her, and he did and in 95+ or more out of a hundred instances, there would be no reprecussions. in this case there was a terrible accident and the lady was injured terribly.
But all of that was her fault to any objective observer.
You look at a tape of a big guy tasing a woman and the woman getting hurt and then emotions and pre-dipsositions take over.
I have stood up against true law enforcement and state grabs for power and travesties of justice which trample individual rights. I know what that looks like and will fight it wherever I find it...but this is not that.
This was a criminal woman, who had no thought or care for the safety or rights of others, who brought a terrible accident down on her own shouldres because of her bad choices as a criminal, and then finally as a fugitive of the law for a few seconds.
I got previously banned for fighting with a paultard and reporting his stalking me all over FR. I think they banned him too, but I got banned for defending myself by the PC cops on FR.
My cousin is a Maricopa (AZ) deputy and thinks this cop is an idiot. First of all, he cuffed her in front not in back. He said she could have grabbed for his gun (remember she was high at the time). My cousin also faults him for failing to cuff her to the chair when processing her, despite her history of evading arrest and fleeing the scene, and for not even trying to pursue her outside. He has tased about a dozen people, all violent felons, half of which were resisting arrest. He does not think much of this cop.
Hi Jeff,
You and I do agree on quite a bit. Under no circumstances should she “have been let go”, particularly handcuffed; if nothing else for her own safety.
She was a potential accident waiting to happen, I agree.
One place where we disagree is in feeling sympathy for her parents. I feel nothing but disgust for her mother, who was into crime and drugs. This individual raised her daughter with no compass, no moral code on which to depend. The mother gave her adult child little if any chance to grow up to be a functioning member of society. Of course, she’ll learn nothing from her daughter’s fate, but I guarantee she’ll do all in her power to get her hands on a much money as a gullible jury will award.
I feel for her parents and family, and for her...but the fault all lies at her feet...she could have changed the outcome at any point by simply making the right decision.
Instead, she chose to use drugs.
She chose to take comeone else’s car without permission.
She chose to leave the scene of two accident she caused...where others easily could have been injured and she didn’t even care enough to stick around and see.
She chose to avoid arrest.
She chose to try and escape once she was arrested.
Her decision to try and escape proved them wrong and ended up costing her horribly. But the fault for that, IMHO, lies at her feet, not his.
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