[deks]

OUCH!!! - That's got to hurt.

I-71 in Fayette County. . .between Columbus and Cincinnati, Ohio.

[babygene]

Sounds like the injured passenger did nothing to deserve the treatment he received. Hope he wins the lawsuit.

[piytar]

Thugcop. Should be in prison.

[kiryandil]

All CONFRONTATION, all the time.

[Darteaus94025]

The new military occupation force.

[RC one]

As near as I can tell, the Fayette county tax payers can pay for Deputy Sines' vacation and Mr. Kelly's damages.

[deks]

Dashcam video of the incident at link below.

Complaint says man shot in eye with Taser

Matthew David Kelly, 24, of Harrison, sued on April 2 in U.S. District Court in Cincinnati, alleging near total loss of vision in his right eye after he was shot twice by Deputy Clinton Sines. He asked for compensatory damages of $5 million on each of four counts.

“Sheriff’s office. Show us your hands. I know you’re asleep, now get out,” as he grabbed the back of Kelly’s sweatshirt and began to try to pull him out of the truck.

Sines gave a couple of hard tugs, apparently unaware that the wordless and apparently confused Kelly was being held by his seat belt.

“I’ll taze you,” Sines told Kelly as he continued to yank Kelly from the truck. When Sines’ grip slipped, Kelly rose and Sines fired his Taser. The Taser prong struck Kelly in the right eye.

Click for >>The Columbus Dispatch article

[tpmintx]

I’m guessing that our local “Cops can do no wrong” Freepers are asleep?

[lee martell]

This, my friends, is what torture really looks like. This was a clumsy and brutal action. I’m surprised it’s taken this long to come to trial. Have these two cops been working since then? Hopefully, they were at least suspended for a while.

[Talisker]

Dear God.

[The Cajun]

Idiot cop had no reason to fire the taser at guy.

Hope the guy wins the lawsuit big time.

[FlingWingFlyer]

You can bet your sweet bippy he wouldn’t have done that to an illegal alien, a Muzzie, an “openly gay” homosexual football player or an LA Clipper.

[Gene Eric]

Drunks can be stupid, dangerous, and difficult to manage.

At least it wasn’t led that passed through the “sleepy” passenger’s eye socket.

[dragnet2]

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.

[GeronL]

I cannot imagine what that feels like

[skinkinthegrass]

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.

[NoCmpromiz]

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

[RoadGumby]

Just another disobedient sheeple getting what he deserved, huh naps?

[Balding_Eagle]

But did the cop go home safe and sound that evening?

The whole column was wasted on a bunch on nonsense about some civilian sleeping. Who cares!!!? There was NOTHING, NOTHING about if the cop went home safely.

Worthless story.

[sport]

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