The cop engaged in Manslaughter pure and simple, he was too lazy to cover what was less than 3 feet between him and handcuff suspect attempting to run. His arm was literally less than 3 feet from her when he fired the tazer. This guy committed manslaughter pure and simple.
He’ll get away with it because the review board is covering his ass, but make no mistake this guy committed manslaughter and I hope that him and the district he works for are fiscally ruined in the courts!
Just because you are a cop does not give you a pass.
Of course she didn’t forsee that consequence of her actions. She clearly did not intend to fall and hit her head and be in a coma and brain dead...she intended to escape.
She was breaking the law while so doing. She had evaded arrest for months and was now ready to get out and do it some more...already having shown she was a danger to others around her.
The policeman used non-lethal force to stop her.
Her hitting her head was a tragedy, but it was not the police officers fault.
You may have served, and if you did in combat or anywhere where you might have to physically subdue an enemy or criminal, then you know there is significant additional danger in so doing.
To wrestle this girl down on the run opens up the possibility that he could be injured while so doing, that she could perhaps somehow get his gun out of the holster during the scuffle, etc., etc.
I addition, as much bigger as he was than she, he could easily have injured her in that scuffle as well.
The taser was the much less dangerous option at the time and he used it.
I will not second guess him. I was not there.
I will not pass judgement on him, and get into some kind of high school name calling on him. Again, I was not there.
You do not know his record and neither do I. You do not know his attitude, and neither do I.
It’s easy to pass judgement...particularly with a video to make a snap judgement, but in my experience it is rarely advisable, even with the video.
If he is tried civilly, a jury will decide, as it should what his civil level of culpability is. Butt they will see a WHOLE lot more evidence than we are seeing.
Yes, I have been on FR, and for a long time (14 years) long enough to know exactly who was responsible for this...and it was not the LEO. He did his job and his duty with a criminal who was now felony escape.
It was a tragedy she fell as she did...but it was a tragedy of her own making...after several very bad choices on her part, which she made (and she made each and every one of them) that led her there.