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- ShakingSpirit, on 01/24/2008, -5/+53Taser section.
- enderiii, on 01/24/2008, -1/+34Pretty soon there will be lawyers specializing in taser-ings.
- makkaveli19, on 01/24/2008, -4/+36wow, this is gonna get digg riled up. a double whammy!
on a more serious note. i wasn't sure how ***** up systems have gotten. they taser and send attack dogs at anyone resembling a criminal. "oops sorry" innocent until proven guilty is long gone. - elitistmusician, on 01/24/2008, -8/+38***** THE POLICE
- Velnich, on 01/24/2008, -2/+26"Hmm, wonder what lawyer will handle his civil suit, an apology doesn't compensate for PAIN!!! " - Sugardad12
You're right, only PAIN can properly compensate for PAIN!!!! - anarchytv, on 01/24/2008, -4/+27The military has trucks now that can take out a whole crowd by projecting microwave radiation that boils the skin just beneath the surface and causes unbearable pain. Through the SWAT programs all this will trickle down to the police, who will move into a neighborhood with this ROBOCOP style and dissable the entire neighborhood, whenever they chasing a supposed felon on the loose. All in the name of justice. Its always done in the name of justice, and 'we're just doing our job'.
The most heinous crimes in history... have always been done, in the name of justice. - GuacamoleSan, on 01/24/2008, -0/+23You get attacked by police dogs. You try defending yourself.
- jonxblaze, on 01/24/2008, -1/+22Damn talk about having a bad day!
- AzureRise, on 01/24/2008, -0/+19Charged with assaulting a police officer. I believe that's a felony.
- inactive, on 01/24/2008, -1/+19Those microwave weapons are known to cause permanent physiological damage but the people who build them dont care since
"It will never be used on us"
Beam weapons and other mass submission devices are the next big thing for the American fascists. - CiscoTM, on 01/24/2008, -2/+18still say we need a taser section section
- heystoopid, on 01/24/2008, -3/+18So what happens when this dumb ass idiot cop encounters a deaf mute walking peacefully down the road , shoot him in the back and then say sorry too his surviving family members as he did not turn around and stop when he was verbally ordered to do so !
What a truly incompetent clown that presumes to assume without proper identification or other checks send the department to cleaners should be worth a couple of million in damages alone ! - berkeleyblue, on 01/24/2008, -3/+17Folks, get with it. The USA is a police state. You do what the police or other authorities say, or they'll teach you a thing or two. You must fear the police and keep an eye out for them. You want to live in the land of the free, go somewhere else!
Geez. The right to bear arms... we need that right because it looks like someday we will have to take up arms against an oppressive tyranny much as our founding fathers did over two centuries ago. - rpi22, on 01/24/2008, -0/+14Ssss. oooops, sorry (*shrugs*)
- shaelen, on 01/24/2008, -1/+14You make a good point. I'm a white male, and every encounter with the police I've had in my lifetime (I'm 42) has been fairly civil. Only once did a white cop start to pull his club out and a black cop forced him to calm down and move to the back of my car. Anyway, It's all fine and wonderful if you are a white male with short hair, but I know a guy who, while when he had dreadlocks, was harassed by cops at least once a week as he would walk home from the gym where we worked out. Once he cut off his dreads, he was never bothered by the cops again.
Please don't suggest that those who don't fall into the status quo aren't having their rights ***** over. - Slackdragon, on 01/24/2008, -2/+14That would suck! However, if it happened to me, I'd be glad they nabbed the actual (alleged) rapist.
I've been in the wrong place at the wrong time before with my brother. We were driving north up Hwy 270 in St. Louis and were suddenly boxed in by three highway patrol cruisers and when we pulled over, we were descended on with pistols and rifles told to exit the vehicle with our hands up and then behind our heads.
Turned out his red pickup matched the make and model of two guys waving a pistol at drivers. We happened to be two guys in a red pickup headed north in the same area and got the Missouri Highway Patrol rough welcome. Fortunately, my mom didn't raise fools and we realized that if you cooperate, even if it's kind of startling, it'll work out. If I had been a dumb-ass and stood my ground and demanded my "absolute American rights" at that time and place, I could have been seriously hurt, considering they were expecting two potentially drugged and armed lunatics. - ikamos, on 01/24/2008, -2/+13umm...who does?
- midhqel, on 01/24/2008, -3/+13Most likely this is another example of dirty rotten pigs this country has.
Aside for a cash judgment this guy should get all cops involved should be zapped and bitten by a dog. - JoaoPe, on 01/24/2008, -1/+11At some point all Humanity will die with tasers and the last cop alive will taser himself as we've already seen!
- reginaldino, on 01/24/2008, -1/+10i second that notion
- siszam, on 01/24/2008, -0/+8If you start school late because your birthday and flunk a year you would be nineteen when you graduate. If you become ill, have a serious accident or surgery it can set you back in school. There are many reasons. Someone is always quick to act like a gossiping old hen and assume the worse, as if it has anything to do with the issue at hand.
- ploke, on 01/24/2008, -0/+7I hope so
- enderiii, on 01/24/2008, -2/+9poorly executed sarcasm...
- inactive, on 01/24/2008, -1/+8I agree, these will be the next way for cops to abuse people:
http://www.mondovista.com/microwave.html
Just wait until they get smaller, then the cops will be able to carry them just like tasers. - dondara, on 01/24/2008, -2/+9Ok, when you get dragged out of your car because "you fit the description" and get your ass beat. Thank them for it and remember everybody makes mistakes that cost others their lives.
- DizzyDragon, on 01/24/2008, -1/+8Where can I buy one?
I might need one to protect myself from police dogs. - buckrogers1965, on 01/24/2008, -0/+7Sadly defending yourself from a police dog attack is considered assaulting a police officer.
- bshock, on 01/24/2008, -0/+7Orwell talked about an image of the future being "a boot stomping on a human face -- forever" only because he'd never heard of Tasers.
- satanguy, on 01/24/2008, -3/+9these tasers were a fantastic idea ay!
- midhqel, on 01/24/2008, -3/+9If you know anything about cops then you know they generally lie. Most likely they never did yell and came up with an excuse for their "mistake" after the fact.
- dansmeek, on 01/24/2008, -0/+5this is not true. those must only be in prototype phase, because a robot would never see a black homeless dood starving to death and laugh at him while he called up his friends to laugh all at once. robots don't have emotion, so they can't "laugh." and even if they did, i would have to wonder the robots reason for choosing to "laugh and call his buddies cuz a black guy was almost dead as opposed to helping him." perhaps they are desigining these robots to resemble the 21st century "real" cops as opposed to a "perfect officer."
and if thats the case..... it would be simple. shoot those damn robots everytime they screw with you. you wouldn't be killing a human anyway. just a robot. - sodade, on 01/24/2008, -1/+6The moronic majority in america: "As long as you are a law abiding citizen, you have nothing to fear from the police state."
"Ouch - ***** that hurts - why are you tazing me officer? Don't taze me bro..." - psevium, on 01/24/2008, -3/+8Yeah I'm thinking that if I want to listen to music I shouldn't have to turn it down low so I can't hear it over cars or people nearby, but can hear it if a cop was yelling at me because I look like a suspect
I seriously doubt he was listening to an ipod with a balaclava on, a machine gun on his back and running away from a crime scene. More than likely he was walking calmly down the street. - SvenGeiss, on 01/24/2008, -0/+5The police started tasing cooperating people, ran out.. then started tasing themselves... they didn't like that too much so they just went on to tasing random folk.. nice
- MaybellineSP, on 01/24/2008, -0/+4Mistakes do happen, which is why they need better training, and frequent performance and emotional evaluations.
- zombiedepot, on 01/24/2008, -0/+4Robocop was part human.
- buckrogers1965, on 01/24/2008, -0/+4Most people get fired if they make mistakes at work that could get the company sued.
- elitistmusician, on 01/24/2008, -4/+8SPREAD YOUR *****! ON THE GROUND! TAKE THE TASERING AND THE DOG BITE! SPREAD YOUR *****!@@!@!##!!!
- floridiot2, on 01/24/2008, -2/+6iTased
- MacEnvy, on 01/24/2008, -2/+6The sheer availability of tasers to police is no excuse for their blatant misuse. I hope you are falsely arrested some day and get the ***** tased out of you, maybe it'll change your perspective on the issue.
- MaybellineSP, on 01/24/2008, -1/+4Third...
^ ^ ^ It's always interesting to see how many levels of the "comment fractal" can be dugg without getting buried by everyone. - Ostizzle, on 01/24/2008, -5/+8"Innocent until proven guilty" is not an issue here. The police, believing they are dealing with an armed assailant, gave commands to the guy to stop and most likely lay down on the ground so that they could detain him until he was identified. Police officers don't make a habit out of walking up to possibly armed violent criminals and having a pleasant conversation with them. They had reasonable suspicion to detain the guy based on where he was and the clothing description given by the victim. The Supreme Court itself has defined this standard of reasonable suspicion and the officers observed it. Their actions were according to the Court's rulings. Look up "Terry Stop".
Unfortunately, the guy either did not hear them or became defiant. This would serve to strengthen the officers' suspicions that this was the individual they were looking for, who also happened to be a man with a gun. They used a reasonable amount of force to detain the individual and unfortunately it was the wrong person. The Supreme Court has also ruled that officers acting in "good faith", which these officers certainly were, are not subject to prosecution when they are lawfully acting in their duties as police officers.
I am so tired of seeing this "innocent until proven guilty" ***** being thrown around by people who obviously lack the intelligence to comprehend the ramifications of this maxim being applied in the manner that they believe it should be applied. Guess what? If your family was slaughtered by a person that you saw running away from your house covered in blood and carrying a knife, according to you, the police would not be able to arrest that person by force if they were uncooperative because they have not yet been proven guilty in a court of law. The standard for an arrest has always been probable cause and the person is not considered guilty at this point. It is not until one is being tried in court that the standard then becomes beyond a reasonable doubt.
Bonus: Please explain how you would detain a person who is believed to be armed with a handgun when they do not obey your commands to stop and lie down on the ground. You have articulable reasonable suspicion to stopped this person based on the time and area the person was found and a description given by the victim. - Doriath, on 01/24/2008, -0/+3"Idiot", says the guy who can't spell "You're."
- heystoopid, on 01/24/2008, -0/+3Wowser !
- inactive, on 01/24/2008, -3/+6You should visit a real police state sometime, then you can look back on this comment and understand how truly stupid it was.
The US is not a police state. Not even close. No, its really not. - VitriolAndAngst, on 01/24/2008, -1/+4Just because someone "fits the description" and doesn't respond to police is NOT a reason to attack the man. You have to be a threat to others or in the commission of a crime for officers to use force. The "I don't like you" reason doesn't work for me.
- dagnome1984, on 01/24/2008, -2/+5The dog wanted a cut of the action.
- andyd2k, on 01/24/2008, -2/+5he just won the lottery!
- MacEnvy, on 01/24/2008, -0/+3The kid was innocent of the crime the cops thought he committed - why should I believe the cops now? The kid appears to have his ***** together more than the cops who tased him.
Credibility is important. The police have none in this situation. - 141592653589793, on 01/24/2008, -2/+4tasers should only be used if someone is physically in danger, not as a compliance tool. they should not be used if someone is passively resisting, not obeying orders, or yelling at the cops. none of those will hurt anyone. if a cop actually uses a taser wrongly, they should institute a rule where the cop gets tasered directly in the nuts.
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