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Ohio man who was shot in eye with Taser at traffic stop is suing police
Cleveland.com (The Plain Dealer) ^ | May 11, 2014 | Associated Press

Posted on 05/13/2014 9:36:00 PM PDT by deks

Last May, Kelly was asleep in the passenger seat when his friend was pulled over for drunken driving on Interstate 71 between Cincinnati and Columbus, according to The Columbus Dispatch.

When Ohio State Trooper Bryan Cook woke Kelly, he was startled and began flailing his arms, according to the lawsuit.

Fayette County Deputy Clinton Sines then drew his Taser, opened the passenger door and shouted for Cook to get out of the truck and show his hands as he grabbed the back of Kelly's sweatshirt and tried to pull him out, the lawsuit says.

The lawsuit says Sines was apparently unaware that a still-confused Kelly was restrained by his seat belt.

"I'll taze you," Sines told Kelly as he continued to yank Kelly from the truck, according to the lawsuit.

When Sines' grip slipped, Kelly rose. That's when Sines fired his Taser, striking Kelly in the right eye, where a Taser prong became lodged.

Kelly fell back into the seat and covered his head with both arms, and Sines fired a second jolt into his eye, the lawsuit says.

(Excerpt) Read more at cleveland.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: blind; confrontationwatch; donutwatch; excessiveforce; fayettecounty; lawsuit; ohio; policebrutality; taser
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To: The Cajun

“Stupid cop just getting his rocks off because he knew he could.”
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Cops in the US have been morphing into jack-booted thugs for about the last 15-20 years. Hard to find the good old boy on the beat anymore.


21 posted on 05/13/2014 10:36:09 PM PDT by AlexW
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To: deks; The Cajun

I only read the text without reviewing the video. I trust your observations.


22 posted on 05/13/2014 10:40:58 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: deks

That had to be brutal getting your eyeball electrocuted.

I knew a guy who took mortar shrapnel to the eye, pop’ed his eyeball out, dangling by the nerve and they had to cut it and tie him off to stop the bleeding while being flown out. But he survived, wore a patch and went on.


23 posted on 05/13/2014 10:43:04 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: The Cajun

I watched the video. . . I ga-ron-tee that you are correct, The Cajun.


24 posted on 05/13/2014 10:44:26 PM PDT by deks (Sent from my BlackBerry Q10)
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To: deks

I cannot imagine what that feels like


25 posted on 05/13/2014 10:46:17 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: Gene Eric

Thank you. We can be civil here and not tear into each other over the text that we’ve entered into the reply box.


26 posted on 05/13/2014 10:48:17 PM PDT by deks (Sent from my BlackBerry Q10)
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To: Gene Eric

Attacking sleeping people, all in a days work!

Thank you for keeping us... Scared?


27 posted on 05/13/2014 10:48:41 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: AlexW; deks
I just feel sorry for the poor kid, don't give a hoot if he was drunk or stoned, but the idiot cop was in no way being threatened.

The kid did no action to deserve that, the loss of an eye for life.

28 posted on 05/13/2014 10:52:51 PM PDT by The Cajun (tea party!!!, Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Louie Gohmert......Nuff said.)
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To: GeronL

Hey, GeronL. I see you’re coming up on 15 years here in October. I’m curious. How many comments have you made all together? How many articles :)


29 posted on 05/13/2014 10:56:43 PM PDT by deks (Sent from my BlackBerry Q10)
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To: deks; All
and after suing f.o.p./city & state; go after his LEO's pension plan, too.
Make Malicious P.O.S. unemployalbe for any Gov't. ELO agency.

30 posted on 05/13/2014 11:08:05 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Bathhouse/"Rustler" Reid? :-)
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To: The Cajun
this LEO; needs to working @ a very low payin' job soonest.

31 posted on 05/13/2014 11:12:04 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Bathhouse/"Rustler" Reid? :-)
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To: everyone

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32 posted on 05/13/2014 11:19:03 PM PDT by deks (Sent from my BlackBerry Q10)
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To: GeronL

Hey, GeronL. . . Sorry, I don’t usually just “chat”. Hope I didn’t kill the thread. . . maybe you’ll see this in the morning ;)


33 posted on 05/13/2014 11:32:09 PM PDT by deks (Sent from my BlackBerry Q10)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

eye for eye, tooth for tooth AFAIC.


34 posted on 05/13/2014 11:48:29 PM PDT by RC one (Militarized law enforcement is just a nice way of saying martial law enforcement.)
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To: deks

The only people that think Tasers are the solution for every situation are the people at Taser.
I certainly wouldn’t trust my life to one. The failure rate in real life is too high.


35 posted on 05/14/2014 12:17:37 AM PDT by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: Gene Eric

Here’s a you tube link => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qas5wRCwZ40

What do you think of the officer’s actions?


36 posted on 05/14/2014 12:25:19 AM PDT by Ken H
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To: Gene Eric

Oh. I didn’t realize being drunk or asleep was a crime .
Oh COURSE the officer should have shot the bad man...
/s


37 posted on 05/14/2014 12:39:21 AM PDT by Kozak ("It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal" Henry Kissinger)
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To: Kozak

>> Oh. I didn’t realize being drunk or asleep was a crime .

You inferred that from my post #16?


38 posted on 05/14/2014 1:37:09 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: null and void

Does a cop with a taser qualify as a jack booted thug?


39 posted on 05/14/2014 1:42:57 AM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: null and void
Um..

Ignore post 39..

40 posted on 05/14/2014 1:47:53 AM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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