These police officers are nuts. If they can’t at least understand the optics of what they did, they are idiots too. I think it’s the quote he accuses them of, which cinches the deal: those officers made the wrong choice due to impatience. Old people who are that sick can easily become confused. Until police use TASERS only in cases where they have exhausted other means, and see an immediate threat to life, they will be abusing their power.
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Zhu | 09-May-08 at 3:22 pm | Permalink
“Whether the person is 80 or 20, we are dealing with a person who had a deadly weapon in their hand,”
That’s the worse excuse EVER. And how about the fact he was in an hospital bed? Good enough? Seriously, cops have to stop playing around with taser. The guy is lucky to be alive considering his med. background!
David Schantz | 09-May-08 at 6:25 pm | Permalink
By the time the Saint Joseph, Missouri Police Department had their tasers for thirty days there had been seven tasings and one law suit filed against them.
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