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- philliesphan026, on 10/31/2007, -28/+813Digg needs a taser section.
- realgoat21, on 11/05/2007, -55/+804i dont know what this man did, but it doesnt give the police the right to shock him to death just to satisfy their ego trip.
***** pigs - AliasHandler, on 10/16/2007, -15/+579What the *****. They did NOT have to continue tasing him. The officer was holding it to his body WELL after he had submitted. And now he is dead. How this is tolerated I'll never understand. He was in fear for his life, that's why he seemed to be resisting. He thought they were going to KILL him and apparently he had EVERY REASON to fear. This is not the police doing their job, this is use of excessive force. Murder is not acceptable, even moreso when the cop commits the murder. I understand the stress of a resisting prisoner but he was well beyond submitting. When one of the officers told him to stop resisting he was already out cold and dying. What sickens me the most is when they are attempting resuscitation you can distinctly hear one of the officers whistling a tune as this man lay dying on the floor. Absolutely sickening.
- mixmasteraaron, on 10/22/2007, -14/+486Dugg because the police took forever to realize he was dead.
Dugg because I would have struggled too (damn claustrophobia).
Dugg because the police were all on him when alive, and scattered like scared children once he was dead.
Dugg because injustice like this makes me furious and incredibly sad. - Trippin113, on 10/16/2007, -9/+455the only reason they keep saying "Stop resisting" is to save their own ass on camera. When your being taser'd your movement becomes involuntary. You can tell someone that has no control of their motor functions to stop resisting.
- hiphoc, on 10/26/2007, -9/+308I ***** guarantee the defense will be, "the police followed department policy". God if I hear that torture is department policy one more time... Oh *****, its not torture, its pain compliance. This double speak is killing me, its like calling Rape "un-invited non consensual intercourse". We got to start calling this what it is, torture and murder. Electrocuting people who have not had a trial and are not guilty of anything, torture and abuse, pain compliance=torture, water boarding=torture. These things have been know to be torture for years. We have got to take back our language from these Orwellian *****. Instead of using language to communicate, the powers that be are using language to hide their wrong doing.
I keep saying it, its all fun and games till you or a relative end up in police custody. We got to stop this before its one of us or our loved ones. - hiphoc, on 10/22/2007, -6/+191Yea, a friend of mine got his arm almost pulled out of socket because the cop didn't like the way he was looked at after he gave out a ***** ticket. This is the tactic. Multiple cops jump on you get you to the ground, twist your arm behind your back, when you start screaming in pain they say... Stop resisting, Stop resisting, if you scream because your arm is being twisted, they twist more saying you are resisting. Then unless you shut up and take the pain, they taze you or spay pepper in your face. This ***** has got to stop.
- explnx, on 04/27/2009, -7/+180What is required for a weapon to be considered non-lethal? Seeing as a taser can, you know, kill people.
- Fanrir, on 10/22/2007, -10/+169This is really hard to ***** watch. Wow.
- DoodleMaster, on 10/16/2007, -8/+155the worst part is that they don't seem to believe he had no pulse, how many cops checked his pulse before they called the prison nurse?
- NiGHTSChao, on 10/16/2007, -6/+133How the ***** would they not realize that he's probably twitching madly from the pain and shock?!?
What a bunch of ***** idiots - 1iProd, on 10/22/2007, -4/+123I could understand them being concerned about that, but really, a taser was not necessary at all, he was ***** cuffed at the feet and arms, what did those morons think he was going to do, flail his body at them? Even a bonk on the head would be much more human. Bring back billy clubs, leave tasers for serious *****. ***** pigs.
- eliteblast, on 10/22/2007, -8/+127this is disturbing I am sick to my stomach
- inactive, on 10/17/2007, -3/+113Now realize how much of this ***** DOESN'T get filmed and put on the internet...
- KingBunny, on 10/22/2007, -6/+115And then "Don't tase me bro" stops being funny, and becomes sort of disturbing.
We don't need a taser section, we need an "abuse of power" or possibly "Orwellian Nightmare" section, to accommodate a good third of all diggs. - grammarpolice, on 10/10/2007, -5/+110I get SO mad when I see this kind of crap. The poor dude was restrained and there was about 7 cops there incase the prisoner caused problems. BUT NOOO lets just shock the ***** out of him cause we can, it will teach him to mess with us. .
Digg me down for cutting in line for comments but Im just furious right now. ***** ego tripping cops. - seks03, on 10/22/2007, -3/+108"A grand jury in Georgia has not only declined to watch a video of a Taser-related death, it has dismissed all charges in the case."
http://www.11alive.com/news/news_article.aspx?stor ...
http://www.mackwhite.com/archive55.html
Thats wrong, these people need to be held responsible. - sparrowkc, on 10/16/2007, -14/+113Seriously, Combining this with "Don't tase me bro!" is just distasteful.
- Noiremorte, on 10/22/2007, -17/+113I couldn't finish watching it. ***** cops. ***** government. This ***** is not okay. Something needs to be done.
- dansvan, on 10/22/2007, -5/+94How can the cops that took part in this continue their jobs and continue living with themselves?
- pintomp3, on 10/15/2007, -7/+92***** pigs. they are saying "stop resisting" while tasering him. that's like grabbing someone's arm and pushing in their face and saying "stop hitting yourself". tasers were initially brought in so that police would use them instead of shooting people. police shootings have not gone down, instead they use tasers whenever they feel like it because it's considered "non-lethal". we also have a justice systems that doesn't punish this type of abuse. the police are supposed to protect and serve the public and should be accountable and afraid of the public, not the other way around.
- DBNKR, on 10/16/2007, -4/+86We all beg for ***** like this to stop, right? Most normal people dont want to see stuff like this go down. But what the ***** is up with those police officers? Are they robots?
Any police out there? How about casting some light here? From a HUMAN perspective, how the HELL can you live with working in a force that let this happen, WITHOUT protesting LOUDLY? Organize, dammit! You cant be that stone cold! - inactive, on 10/16/2007, -10/+87Absolutely disgusting...every one of those ***** deserves to be locked up forever. ***** ***** cops think they can do whatever they want.
I really can't express in words the hate I feel towards everyone who participated in this....***** *****. I don't even care if they TRIED to bring him back, they all deserve to rot in hell. - Tabou, on 10/22/2007, -6/+80The disgusting part is that they all seemed so calm about it. It's as if they're used to it. Not to mention that these murderers walked free after killing him.
Cops in the US are too lazy and dumb. They rely on their expensive gadgets to do the simplest tasks for them. If you need a "batallion" of officers to subdue one unarmed and handcuffed man then you're in the wrong business. - darlyn, on 10/16/2007, -13/+82*****, man. With all the ludicrous things I've seen on the internet, I could get myself to watch the end.
- ljw5021, on 10/10/2007, -4/+65I actually heard one man was rejected from the police force for too high of an IQ.
The police do more harm than good. They are ill trained for the situations which actually require intervention. Make these ***** pricks learn how to do their job correctly. If they have IQ - masamunecyrus, on 10/15/2007, -0/+56I counted about 16 or 17 seconds of straight taser, starting at 16:17:17, and when they started, he obviously wasn't resisting -- his eyes were closed, he wasn't making any noise, and his muscles were tightening because he was being electrocuted.
Very few times have I ever found something sick, but this counts as one of those. - unorginalityftw, on 10/10/2007, -3/+58I also noticed one of the cops, a woman, when he was screaming in pain, smiling somewhere. I could be mistaken, but I -think- I saw that.
- ttfadia, on 10/10/2007, -4/+58Unbelievable. That's just a blatant disrespect for life. Those police officers are disgusting excuses for human beings.
- masamunecyrus, on 10/10/2007, -0/+54I didn't even know that it was legal to HOLD a taser to someone until they STOPPED moving. He didn't just taster him "five times", he just held the taster there, giving him a constant shock for way over 10 seconds.
There's at least five deputies, and these are big men on their own, holding him down, and several people are holding hands over his face so he can't breath, while one guy holds a taser to him for more than long enough to kill ANYBODY, and continues to still hold the taster to him, EVEN AFTER HE HAS STOPPED MOVING! This is not acceptable force by any standard in any civilized country, and someone needs to be criminally charged. - STARTSOMETHING, on 10/16/2007, -1/+55who's filming this?
- DBNKR, on 10/29/2007, -14/+66Still, you do not kill him. I know you execute criminals in America, but at least they stand before a jury first.
- SmackMyMac, on 10/16/2007, -9/+61Someone needs to taser all those taser lovin cops until they die. ***** ignorant.
- FTLJohnson, on 10/22/2007, -8/+59You seem to think cops are there to serve and protect the people.. cops are there to serve and protect the STATE
http://www.youtube.com/user/JimmyJustice4753 - GeneralFailure0, on 10/10/2007, -12/+62It doesn't matter. The video is right there, you don't need someone to explain the circumstances, it's clearly excessive force. This is not how the police should behave under any conditions.
- naffets, on 10/10/2007, -5/+55Should taser the ***** cops, see if they can ***** stop moving.
***** I'm from europe and this still scares me - DBNKR, on 10/29/2007, -7/+53You dumbass, are you blind? Did you look at the movie?
"a story that you know exactly zero about", what the hell are you talking about? I can look and see with my own eyes that the guy was murdered. He was alive and all, then got killed.
If he was from liberia and a college student, of course I dont know. But that is of minor importance. It is bad enough that you kill criminals in america, but this one was executed without a trial. - Typhoon2009, on 10/16/2007, -10/+50What the *****, seriously? I've seen so much taser-related ***** in the past week. What the hell is wrong with our police force? The police should be subject to the same psychological standards as the US military. These guys sound like ***** psychopaths.
- buckrogers1965, on 10/15/2007, -1/+39You quoted, "Williams charged the officer and grabbed his baton as Kenyon tried to strike him."
So Williams crime is not letting himself be struck by a night stick? I know it is tough, but try to follow me here. What crime did he commit before the point that the police officer decided to swing the night stick at his head?
He had, in fact, committed no crime. His wife called the ambulance for help because he was agitated because he was having an epileptic seizure. He was sick and needed help.
Instead the police killed him.
Ummm, how dare Williams, who had committed no crime, and was sick and reacting 100% instinctively defend himself from being beaten with a night stick? Yes, that is sarcasm.
The only crime this man committed was being black in his own yard. And daring to defend himself from a police officer.
The thing that concerns me the most is what would happen if a police officer kills you or I for no reason. We hadn't even committed a crime. They just decide to arrest us because they don't like us and decide to torture us to death for the fun of it. They could even video tape us screaming "please don't kill me, I can't breath." while they execute us and release the video onto the internet.
And they wouldn't get charged with a crime.
That is ***** up. That is not the America that I grew up in. - samschoice, on 10/10/2007, -5/+41You don't need the whole story. The man was clearly restrained. There was no need to kill him with a taser. Shame on these police. They are guilty of man slaughter.
- inactive, on 10/16/2007, -18/+54Don't Kill Me Bro better not become the new catch phrase...
- TheCount, on 10/11/2007, -1/+36Yeah, how dare you all get upset over a man's murder? I mean this happened in 2004, that's like hundreds of years ago! Stop living in the past! While you're at it, stop remembering World War II and Vietnam as well, it's not like you were there or anything.
- inactive, on 10/14/2007, -0/+34(09/08/00)
The Associated Press reported the following case from New London, Connecticut: "A man whose bid to become a police officer was rejected after he scored too high on an intelligence test has lost an appeal in his federal lawsuit against the city.
"The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York upheld a lower court’s decision that the city did not discriminate against Robert Jordan because the same standards were applied to everyone who took the test."
In 1996, Jordan scored 33 points on the police exam which is the equivalent of an IQ of 125 (well above average, but 15 points short of the traditional "genius" cutoff of 140).
"But New London police interviewed only candidates who scored 20 to 27, on the theory that those who scored too high could get bored with police work and leave soon after undergoing costly training."
Associated Press reports that the national average for police officers is an IQ of 104, or slightly above average.
The U.S. District Court ruled the New London police had a reasonable explanation for their policy of rejecting applicants who were too intelligent -- they might get easily bored and leave the job after receiving costly training. On August 23, 2000 the Second Circuit Court agreed.
Robert Jordan has been working as a prison guard since his rejection by New London police. Apparently prison authorities don't care of Jordan is too intelligent for the guard job; or maybe prison guards have to be smarter than police recruits. (Associated Press as published by ABC News 09/08/00) - greekgoat91, on 10/16/2007, -5/+39that's really sad, I hope that everyone involved lost their jobs for their poor judgement
- RobotCitizen, on 10/13/2007, -1/+34Tasers cause massive depolarization of motor nerves and muscle fibers, rendering them temporarily nonfunctional. That's why tasered people go nearly limp after convulsing for a bit. The diaphram (the muscle that inflates your lungs) is a MUSCLE. What do you think would happen to you if your diaphram was paralyzed? You'd asphyxiate (suffocate), go unconscious, and suffer massive brain and heart damage from lack of oxygen.
"I can't breath!"
This poor man arrived at the hospital essentially brain-dead from anoxic brain injury. So no, tasers don't JUST cause pain. In most cases, if the taser is used sparingly, you don't get such severe muscle paralysis, but if the taser is applied excessively and sadistically, you can end up like this man. - fishpicker, on 10/22/2007, -0/+33OMG that's terrible. it doesnt make any sense. since when do juries get to decide what eveidence they want to see? the whole thing reeks
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -3/+35One of the women is seen smiling while entering the room.
- inactive, on 10/16/2007, -7/+39So they should just kill him because he forgot to take his medicine? They all deserve to rot in hell.
- superyounan1, on 10/16/2007, -4/+35man this video really made my heart ache. oh my god, there must be another way. what about sedating him, hold him down, stick a sedative in him, theres no reason to keep shocking a human being like he's worhtless
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