How come we don't have any poster named "don't tase me, bro"?

Or did we have one at one time, and I just missed it?

Hes kind of a sad story of squandered potential. I wonder what he could have been if he had focused all on one sport...if he hadn't have been rushed in baseball and stuck with the sport longer than he did or if he had never played pro ball and became a college QB right from high school.

Wiki says he is hitting this:
http://www.wallpaperbase.com/wallpapers/celebs/rachelreynolds/rachel_reynolds_1.jpg

Not really my style, but I'd smash it.

OC's corruptible (ex-) sheriff Mike Carona is fighting federal charges of corruption. The fact that he was willing to take free legal advice (also illegal under state law) from a pair of criminal attorneys tells me he has absolutely no scruples whatsoever. Of course, the coverup of a gang-rape by the son of his big-money campaign contributor -- and, get this, assistant sheriff Don Haidl -- was probably a bigger first clue.

Hes kind of a sad story of squandered potential. I wonder what he could have been if he had focused all on one sport...if he hadn't have been rushed in baseball and stuck with the sport longer than he did or if he had never played pro ball and became a college QB right from high school.

Is anyone else concerned about the use of the taser by law enforcement officials?

Every state has a story (many of 'em, probably) like this, I'll bet.

And most high schools have a similar story. Local hero goes off to big time college. Comes back a few years later washed up and hungover.

First Joe Ferguson was hotly recruited, chose Arkansas, and later played in the NFL for awhile.

Is anyone else concerned about the use of the taser by law enforcement officials?

While I appreciate the work done by good law enforcement officers, I don't value their lives and safety over anyone elses.

This is just a stunningly stupid statement from a brainwashed, and hopefully (for his sake) still young nitwit.

Before they had tasers to "cavalierly use", they were employing night sticks/billy clubs and choke-holds with great enthusiasm. I don't know that tasers are any more dangerous or cause any greater injuries -- in fact, I suspect that it is lower.

anyone elses

Pardon? I'm completely against automatic capital charges for the murder of a police officer instead of the murder of a baker. Does that make me a brainwashed nitwit?

This is the key, two word phrase. I value the lives of good cops over that of criminals, who are part of the sunset of humans who are not cops. If a perp is thrashing about the stationhouse endangering the safety of the cops, tase the m*therfucker, rather than risk getting hurt because he's drunk and disorderly. If you do pull kind of crap, what happens to you is on you, death or what have you. I don't feel its reasonable to ask the cops to risk injury in order to bring down some writhing, violent nutter. You probably disagree, or have major misgivings. That makes you a fringe nitwit in my book, YMMV.

You said "anyone elses". Anyone.

Why shouldn't police be entitled to any equipment that can help them carry out their job safely? It's not like they're brawling with drunks because it's fun, it's a job.

They shouldn't have to risk their lives in an undue way just because they're not worth more than other people. I don't find it particularily noble to offer their health and safety as the price to pay for your high-minded thoughts.

"While I appreciate the work done by good law enforcement officers, I don't value their lives and safety over anyone elses. There are too many examples of Tasers being abused. I move we ban them."

Pardon? I'm completely against automatic capital charges for the murder of a police officer instead of the murder of a baker. Does that make me a brainwashed nitwit?


No. It does, however, apparently make tfbg9 a knee-jerk ... something.

it's foolish to assume the cops are always in the right

You are a police officer, attacked by a knife-wielding maniac, do you:

a) shoot him
b) tase him
c) disarm him and subdue him with your smooth Aikido moves

You read the links that I posted, right? You're seriously trying to advance the contention that in all of those cases, police were in imminent danger of bodily harm if they didn't reach right for the taser? The deaf guy in the shower from the no-knock raid, the bedridden invalid, the man who was sleeping... all credible threats?

I guess you'd need to have a really outrageous case to change your mind, huh? Like a mentally disabled competitor in the Special Olympics, who got zapped while he was out running because he happened to have the same name as a guy wanted on a reckless driving warrant (Link)? Or a restaurant owner who got shocked in the head and bit off part of his tongue because a cop wanted to play a prank? (Link)? Or a pregnant woman

Four members of Mixson's work crew witnessed the shooting from a variety of angles and distances, although Mixson was the only one interviewed by investigators after the shooting and the only one willing to allow his name to be used for this article.

But in interviews with The News Journal last week, all five said Hale did not pose a threat.
[...]
Mixson and his crew had barely noticed Hale before he was confronted by police. Hale, they said, was chatting with Sandra Lopez and two children at the top of a 10-step concrete stoop. Hale was seated on the third step from the top. Mixson and another witness were standing across the street from 1403, while others were on the sidewalk in front of a row house adjacent to the site of the shooting.

The officers ordered Hale to take his hands out of the front pockets of his hooded sweat shirt.

"About a second later, they Tasered him," Mixson recalled. "He was just sitting there. He didn't do anything."
[...]
The witnesses said Hale shook violently from the charge, as if sitting on an electric chair. His right hand came out of the front of his sweat shirt and was shaking violently.

Seconds later, police repeated their command for Hale to show them his hands, and they Tasered him a second time.

Mixson and others said Hale, who was still seated on the steps, rolled onto his left side and vomited into a flower bed.

"My brother yelled at the police that this was overkill. That this was crazy," Mixson said. "They told him to 'shut ... up,' or they'd show him overkill."

Hale rolled back to his right, into a sitting position, still shaking, and police Tasered him a third time, Mixson said.

Lopez, who lived at the home where Hale was killed and was talking to Hale when police arrived, told her attorney Hale was trying to show police his hands. Lopez was standing with her two young children until police ordered her to move.

Cops risk their neck for a paycheck. If they don't like that paycheck, they can quit the job. They don't deserve any special rights.

Cops risk their neck for a paycheck. If they don't like that paycheck, they can quit the job. They don't deserve any special rights.

That "Don't tase me bro" brainwashed Moveon.org little snot getting tased was the sweetest clip of the year, BTW.

"41-year-old Charles Dix, who resigned in 2005 and now lives in Michigan where he works as a surgical technician, faces up to 10-years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

Last year Dix admitted to using excessive force when he used a Taser on Martha Bledsoe in 2004 as she was attempting to report a child abuse allegation. The sheriff's office was forced to pay her $250,000 in restitution.

In 2003 Dix shot a man with a Taser four times in a motel parking lot as the man tried to comfort his wife after a minor traffic accident. The sheriff's office was forced to pay out $150,000 in that case though Dix did not face criminal charges.

That "Don't tase me bro" brainwashed Moveon.org little snot getting tased was the sweetest clip of the year, BTW.

tfbg9, who in your family was a cop?

Oh, I get it -- your meds have stopped working. I just hate it when that happens.

That, &/or you think anyone who doesn't fit in with your (&, I guess, Ann Coulter's) view of reality should be physically abused.

Get help, man.

Police Capt. Rich Lockhart said it is the policy of the Kansas City Police Department "to use the Taser (gun) when someone is being passively resistant, refusing to obey verbal commands."

A sheriff's deputy who was trying to get a man down from a tree shot and wounded him after mistakenly pulling a gun instead of a Taser, authorities say.
[...]
The man had climbed a fig tree and stayed there for hours, talking to himself. Deputies were unsure whether he was intoxicated or psychotic, and they wanted to get him down before he hurt himself or others, Wilson said. -MSNBC

You are a police officer in Milwaukee, and you see a person walking while black, do you:

a) shoot him
b) tase him
c) tase him, then shoot him

Does anyone else find this remarkable? Is it SOP for police departments elsewhere to tase people for emulating Ghandi and offering passive resistance, i.e., presenting no threat whatsoever to police or bystanders?

a 12-year-old girl who was skipping school was found drinking and smoking in a swimming pool, Miami-Dade police officer William Nelson stated in an incident report. He said he responded to an anonymous call about the activities.

He said he told the girl he was taking her to school. As they walked to the police car, she ran away.

"I advised her to stop several times," he said in the report. She "continued running even to the point of starting to run into lanes of traffic."

Nelson said he used the Taser for his and the girl's safety, striking her in the base of the neck and lower right back.

The girl was released into her mother's custody and taken to a doctor.

"I couldn't breathe, and I was, like, nervous, and I was scared at the same time," the girl told CNN.

About two weeks earlier, a first-grader was shot with a Taser at school when he threatened to cut his leg with a piece of broken glass, authorities said. The boy's family said he vomited after the jolt.

"If there's three officers, it's nothing to tell a 6-year-old holding a glass, if you feel threatened, 'Hey, here's a piece of candy, hey, here's a toy. Let the glass go,'" the boy's mother told CNN.

But police insisted using the gun was the only option. -CNN

An officer has been suspended for zapping a 13-year-old girl at least twice with a stun gun while she was handcuffed in his caged patrol car.

An internal report by the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office said Llahsmin Lynn Kallead was handcuffed and in the back seat of the patrol car when Officer G.A. Nelson stunned her twice.

"I felt like a bunch of static electricity, multiple static electricity shocks all over my back and legs," Kallead told Channel 4 in March.

Nelson and his partner had been called to the apartment Kallead shares with her mother Rosie Vaughan because they were fighting Feb. 7.

Vaughan wanted police to help get medical help for her daughter, who had been hospitalized for observation in the past for emotional disorders.

Nelson, a 6-foot-2 officer weighing 300 pounds, allegedly used the low-setting stun mode when the 4-foot-8 Kallead wormed the handcuffs from behind her back and would not do as directed.

"The situation was under control at this point," the internal report said.

Sgt. D.E. Smith, who was called to the scene, said, "Please don't tell me this is the person you Tased." -News 4 Jacksonville

[UK] Police have been given the go-ahead to use Taser stun guns against children.

The relaxing of restrictions on the use of the weapons comes despite warnings that they could trigger a heart attack in youngsters.

Until now, Tasers - which emit a 50,000-volt electric shock - have been used only by specialist officers as a "non lethal" alternative to firearms.

However, they can now be used against all potentially violent offenders even if they are unarmed. -Daily Mail

We've immunized our mercenary army from responsibility for crimes committed overseas.

Officials at Jonesboro Middle School say police tasered an 11-year-old student Wednesday as a last resort. The incident immediately prompted an internal police investigation.

Channel 2 was told the incident began after something happened at lunch to spark a verbal argument between two 6th graders. The verbal argument turned physical and a school resource officer with the Jonesboro Police Department says she had to resort to using a taser.

Channel 2 cameras were rolling when police left Jonesboro Middle School with what appeared to be a male student handcuffed in the backseat.

School officials confirm that an 11-year-old, 6th grade male was tasered by a school resource officer. They say the boy was physically assaulting a female 6th grader and refused to listen to verbal commands to stop. As a last resort the officer tasered the boy twice – once to get the students separated and a second time when the boy tried to attack the girl again.

The male student was taken to juvenile detention – the female was treated by emergency personnel and released to her parents. -WSB-TV

Police departments use the x26 Taser to shock unruly suspects into submission, but Lorain residents are stunned that an officer used one on a school bus to subdue to 12-year-old boy, reported NewsChannel5.

According to the police report, police were called to remove the boy from the bus after he tried to steal another boy's CD case.

Police Capt. Russ Cambarare said the boy cussed at the officers and then threatened her.

"Then he made a threat that he was going to kill her, he bucked his head backwards and hit her on the chin and broke one of his arms free," said Cambarare. -WEWS-TV

A veteran South Tucson police sergeant is under investigation for firing his stun gun to subdue a handcuffed 9-year-old girl.

At the request of Chief Sixto Molina, the Pima County Sheriff's Department is trying to determine if the sergeant committed a crime when he sent a jolt through the child's body.

The police officer used a Taser on the girl at about 5:30 p.m. May 8, Molina said. The nonlethal weapon uses a pulsating electrical charge to immobilize a person for several seconds.

"I'll be the first to admit, you've got a veteran sergeant Tasing a 9-year-old girl, it doesn't look good," said Molina.

The sergeant was one of at least two officers who responded to a call from the Arizona Children's Home, a school for special needs children, on South Eighth Avenue, he said.

"It had to do with a runaway from the institution," the chief said. He declined to provide further details. -KMSB-TV