They are just using it like an argueing tool
when words should be used they taser
this is a big issue people think they can not kill you but what fail to realize is that anyone with heart problems or pacemaker can be killed by these machines
not to mention cause muscle damage
Are Tasers in the wrong hands?
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Case 1
MOBILE, Alabama (AP) — Police in Mobile, Alabama, used pepper spray and a Taser on a deaf, mentally disabled who they said wouldn't leave a store's bathroom. The family of 37-year-old Antonio Love has filed a formal complaint over the incident on Friday.
Police tell the Press-Register of Mobile that officers shot pepper spray under the bathroom door after knocking several times. After forcing the door open, they used the stun gun on Love.
Police spokesman Christopher Levy says police didn't realize Love had a hearing impairment until after he was out of the bathroom. The officers' conduct is under investigation.
The newspaper says the officers attempted to book Love on charges including disorderly conduct, but a magistrate on duty wouldn't accept the charges.
Case 2
An Australian man who had doused himself with gasoline burst into flames when police Tasered him, The Australian newspaper reports.
The newspaper says police had gone to a house in the remote West Australian community of Warburton where Ronald Mitchell, 36, and others had been sniffing gasoline.
Morinda West, Mitchell's sister, tells the newspaper that the man was recently released from prison and was scared to go to the door when police knocked.
Eventually, she says, MItchell went to the front of the house with a lighter and a half-gallon orange juice container full of gasoline, having apparently splashed some of it on his face.
A police spokeswoman says an officer Tasered Mitchell as he ran at the officer with the gasoline container and refused to stop. Family members say the Taser hit him on the bridge of his nose.
Mitchell was hospitalized with burns over 20% of his body, the newspaper says.
Case 3
HOUSTON (AP) — NFL receiver Reggie Williams was charged with drug possession after off-duty policemen used a Taser to subdue him when he refused to leave a bar. Houston police spokesman Kese Smith says Williams was impaired when he refused to leave a bar Sunday night. He struggled with two off-duty officers who tried to escort him out and one of them used a Taser on him.
Police say jail officials later found a small bag believed to contain cocaine in Williams' back pocket. He was charged on Monday with possession of a controlled substance and freed after posting a $2,000 bond.
In February, the 25-year-old unrestricted free agent was arrested in Houston on DWI and possession of marijuana charges, which were later dropped. He played for the Jacksonville Jaguars last season and is currently a free agent.
A call to Williams' agent was not immediately returned.
MY QUESTION IS... Are we allowing bruality or are tasing incidents justified?
MOBILE, Alabama (AP) — Police in Mobile, Alabama, used pepper spray and a Taser on a deaf, mentally disabled who they said wouldn't leave a store's bathroom. The family of 37-year-old Antonio Love has filed a formal complaint over the incident on Friday.
Police tell the Press-Register of Mobile that officers shot pepper spray under the bathroom door after knocking several times. After forcing the door open, they used the stun gun on Love.
Police spokesman Christopher Levy says police didn't realize Love had a hearing impairment until after he was out of the bathroom. The officers' conduct is under investigation.
The newspaper says the officers attempted to book Love on charges including disorderly conduct, but a magistrate on duty wouldn't accept the charges.
Case 2
An Australian man who had doused himself with gasoline burst into flames when police Tasered him, The Australian newspaper reports.
The newspaper says police had gone to a house in the remote West Australian community of Warburton where Ronald Mitchell, 36, and others had been sniffing gasoline.
Morinda West, Mitchell's sister, tells the newspaper that the man was recently released from prison and was scared to go to the door when police knocked.
Eventually, she says, MItchell went to the front of the house with a lighter and a half-gallon orange juice container full of gasoline, having apparently splashed some of it on his face.
A police spokeswoman says an officer Tasered Mitchell as he ran at the officer with the gasoline container and refused to stop. Family members say the Taser hit him on the bridge of his nose.
Mitchell was hospitalized with burns over 20% of his body, the newspaper says.
Case 3
HOUSTON (AP) — NFL receiver Reggie Williams was charged with drug possession after off-duty policemen used a Taser to subdue him when he refused to leave a bar. Houston police spokesman Kese Smith says Williams was impaired when he refused to leave a bar Sunday night. He struggled with two off-duty officers who tried to escort him out and one of them used a Taser on him.
Police say jail officials later found a small bag believed to contain cocaine in Williams' back pocket. He was charged on Monday with possession of a controlled substance and freed after posting a $2,000 bond.
In February, the 25-year-old unrestricted free agent was arrested in Houston on DWI and possession of marijuana charges, which were later dropped. He played for the Jacksonville Jaguars last season and is currently a free agent.
A call to Williams' agent was not immediately returned.
MY QUESTION IS... Are we allowing bruality or are tasing incidents justified?
Top Opinion
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moomoof 2009/07/28 16:30:38
Case 2. Is the shear stupidity of both the idiot sniffing gasoline and the officer who tasered him when clearly the smell of gas must have been strong.
Case 3. The police were justified using taser.
and what those cops did was just plain idiotic
Was that really necessary?
Abuse is abuse despite the tool they use to perform it.
They mean that no one wanted to give the benefit of the doubt... so death was the next thing on the table.
ban bad officers not take away weapons.