latimes.com — Did we really expect honesty from them? Did we really expect them to admit that they over-reacted. There are definitely two distinct sides to this story, but I'd be more inclined to believe the version of the 50 or 60 witnesses who have nothing to gain by their accounts. Read the campus police report
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misosNov 18, 2006
Yes - it's so terrible learning about how the human body functions. v_v
coolwindNov 18, 2006
Inciting a riot? Sober up.
reddragon43Nov 18, 2006
Well, here's how I see it, he did deserve something but the being electrically shocked could have killed him or done some other lasting effect and then this would've been a whole different story, since they had him in handcuffs they really should have dragged him out kicking and screaming, after all then he's the one who looks like an ass, and now because they went overboard they look like jerks and have to cover up by lying. So sad, but then this isn't the first time and certainly won't be the last, especially in this post 911 world.
mutatronNov 18, 2006
I agree. All they needed to do is cuff him and take him out of there. There are plenty of physical techniques for doing this. Maybe they had to do that first drive stun to get him to be more compliant, but that guy was a mad man with the taser, he was bearing down on that thing for several seconds at a time, far more than is necessary. Once they had him in cuffs that should have been it. All the tasering after that was just torture, plain and simple.
4uidiggNov 18, 2006
Damn right. And thank goodness for cell phone cameras, or else the bastards would just get away with it, as they probably already have done several times in the past (probably not the first time they tasered somebody in handcuffs).I hope that ultimately all interactions between citizens and law enforcement will be automatically video recorded and then available for playback by the suspect and ultimately the public. Knowing that everything they do becomes part of a permanent public record, this stinky s**tty dissgraceful gestapo swine in uniform will have to obide by and respect the law just like everybody else.
dgendreauNov 18, 2006
@MuyosoTo me the alleged lie seems to be that the officers say that he refused their multiple requests to leave, while several witnesses state that he was already on his way out the door when they showed up and actually impeded him from leaving. When he complained that they grabbed him while he was leaving they tasered him repeatedly.The story says that the student library assistants asked him to leave and he gave _them_ a hard time because he felt that they were singling him out because he was not white, but when they called the campus cops, he packed up and headed for the door.The officers stories and the victim's / witness' testimony dont match.
jellygraphNov 18, 2006
These cops need to have a public flogging
isleshocky77Nov 19, 2006
I definitely don't disagree with you. I was just throwing a statistic out there for those saying it's non-lethal as oppose to less than lethal. Tasing the guy 5 times could've killed him and the cops had to know this. There WAS NO possible reason to tase him while in handcuffs.
twosevenDec 6, 2006
anachronaut, is it necessary to capitalize the word "courts"? Did you mean to emphasize the pronunciation of the word, because phonetically it sounds odd, Einstein.Sure, the cops are there to protect and serve. When a person is unruly and refuse to leave a place where he isn't authorized to be at, by the stated rules, I would like the police to protect me by getting him out of the property. Is that easier to understand now, simple-minded fellow?