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- dinobot, on 12/05/2007, -3/+321The police thought he was yelling at 'em while performing "gang" signs and thus felt threatened by the naked guy in the bath tub
Seriously, cops with tasers are like the Spanish inquisition, Nobody Expects Them! - joe8pack, on 12/05/2007, -8/+204I think we can fix this whole over zealous tasing problem real fast. Any and every time a police officer is found to have used his taser in an unwarranted situation, the whole police force gets tasered. I think peer pressure would rein in these wild card cops who might actually learn that they have other tools in their means.
- deanrussell2001, on 12/05/2007, -7/+174I hope he sues for violating his civil rights. I'm tired of hearing this day after day. The biggest impact we can have to stop this abuse is to hit municipalities in the pocket book where it hurts the most. A multi million dollar lawsuit will get their attention pretty quick.
- inactive, on 12/05/2007, -3/+123Dammit Digg, where is the taser section?
- meells, on 12/05/2007, -6/+110I can totally see why the cops had to do this. That frightened naked man could have easily twirled up his towel and snapped one of them on the butt! Cmon! That stings......
douchebag ***** pigs - iRoy, on 12/05/2007, -1/+104Alright this is seriously getting out of hand.
What's the next headline going to be, "Blind man tasered while standing in pool of gasoline"? - inactive, on 12/05/2007, -17/+94The schoolyard bully keeps bullying until you pop him in the nose. In this case, we have bullies who wear badges and pretty much figure they are above the law and don't have to answer for their actions. Lawsuits are a waste of time since the odds are stacked in their favor.
Buy a shotgun and if/when your door is burst into, empty it. Get a jury trial and make sure your lawyer finds jurors who are familiar with "jury nullification" (google it). I find it difficult to believe a jury of your peers would convict you for defending your home and your loved ones.
The jury is one of our last hopes at stemming this tide of tyrannical corruption. An informed jury can not only acquit, it can overturn the law and force the thugs to rethink their tactics. They are loving their tazers. The kill ratio is low and they can inflict pain for whatever reason they dream up and present in court. The court is NOT your friend. The jury IS your friend...assuming it is an informed one. - Andy1369, on 12/05/2007, -9/+84This is important to me because I'm deaf! How scary. Dumb cops. =/ At least they apologized.
- zeptobyte, on 12/05/2007, -1/+60No, before tasers they would either have wrestled him to the ground or perhaps beaten him with their clubs. Or done nothing. Before tasers, they absolutely would NOT have shot him.
- PHiZ187, on 12/05/2007, -1/+55Okay, the officers were NOT IN DANGER from a naked man in a towel. There should be NO TASER USE unless the officers or an innocent bystander is under threat of physical harm. Tasers are becoming a first choice of police, and because they are linked to fatalities, they should be one of the LAST resorts.
- fishbert, on 12/05/2007, -5/+48From the article: "Police wish it never happened, but with the information they had at the time, their choices were limited."
Most ***** apologist reporting I've heard in weeks!
You'd think this was a Fox affiliate station. - Gizza, on 12/05/2007, -1/+42I'm not sure if they still do this or not. But in Australia cops need(ed) to be shot with a taser before they were allowed to use one, so they know the impact of it.
Besides, this guy was wearing nothing but a towel. Did they really need to taser him, it's not like he could of posed much of a threat, being completely unarmed and all. And tasering in a bathroom? The guy could of cracked his head open on any number of things on his way down. - GoneFishing, on 12/05/2007, -6/+46Simple solution.
For every taser fired by an officer, it will take $100 out of his monthly pay check. - imgstacke, on 12/05/2007, -9/+49How about take away there cattle prods - because that is what they are, cattle prods.
- duggtodeath, on 12/05/2007, -7/+40We should give tazers to soldiers in Iraq, police back home seem to have a 100% success rate with their targets :(
- xero7, on 12/05/2007, -0/+312007 = The year of the taser.
- skinfitz, on 12/05/2007, -0/+29The question is would you rather be tasered than spoken to?
- jeffsback2223, on 12/05/2007, -2/+30Get them fired first, then sue the Ex-officers individually.
- pendrachken, on 12/05/2007, -7/+35Are you ***** retarded? Obviously you are as dumb as those cops... how can you not recognize sign language, or worse yet think it is "gang signs" . Or maybe you have roving gangs of deaf people in your area?
- zeptobyte, on 12/05/2007, -0/+26The times it's used the way it's supposed to be, they don't all get tasered, obviously.
- voodoozombie, on 12/05/2007, -2/+27I was there, he had a bazooka up his ass. Those cops are lucky to be alive. Deaf bastard.
- JoeDiggsIt, on 12/05/2007, -1/+26Well, at least our daily taser quota has been reached.
- georgemason01, on 12/05/2007, -3/+28Their pocket book = taxpayer dollars, so what good does it do? Go after the officers directly or they will keep their jobs, and their tasers.
- PongGod, on 12/05/2007, -0/+24The basic point is that now that the police are armed with a so-called "non-lethal" weapon, they are far less reluctant to use it than they would a gun. The net result is more "non-lethal" violence with virtually no reduction in shootings.
- PunkRockRalph, on 12/05/2007, -2/+24no, we should issue tazers to perfectly innocent civilians to protect them from the police.
- jaymzdean, on 12/05/2007, -9/+31I'll be happy when The People turn against these rogue cops and punish them as traitors to the Constitution.
- scrumpy, on 12/05/2007, -4/+25Buy your own damn taser - and then taze at will anyone who illegally enters your domicile. Then frantically sign with your middle finger.
- pcflea, on 12/05/2007, -2/+23I better go get a shot gun then.
- andy3109, on 12/05/2007, -2/+22Cops don't shut up and listen...they are always yelling over the suspect and I bet they were this time as well. If they would shut the ***** up they would hear him say, "I can't hear" ...***** barbarians.
- trer, on 12/05/2007, -0/+20The big deal is that I'd like to take a bath without worrying about police breaking down my front door and tasering me.
- fishbert, on 12/05/2007, -0/+19So, for the mere price of cable, I can have the joy of tasing some unsuspecting innocent every other month??
Brilliant idea! I'm calling Comcast now to cancel... - ryan83189, on 12/05/2007, -3/+22He was a quadriplegic too, he failed to raise his arms so...
- masterdbugger, on 12/05/2007, -0/+18Good thing they don't have to be shot to use a gun, that would be really inefficient.
- masterdbugger, on 12/05/2007, -1/+19Yelling "I can't hear I can't hear" is different from "I'm deaf," and someone who is deaf should have known that's the thing to shout.
So if you're in the bath and the cops bust in and start yelling, you wouldn't get confused? - shotgunefx, on 12/05/2007, -7/+25Your a dick, never mind the rational side, what do you think is going to happen after you shot your load? You're going to get filled with hollow-points, I don't think jury's can nullify death, can they?
Ok, now the rational side, the cops are doing their job, it's not like they can't respond to an emergency call.
Now, there are probably few situations that are more perilous and more likely to get a cop on edge then responding to a shooting (except an officer down call),
You never know where weapons could be stashed (I've seen holsters screwed to the undersides of tables), so the cops, being told there was a shooting, went to the scene, and despite being told that it was a shooting, used non-lethal force to subdue him. Realized their mistake and apologized and for this, you advocate murder? And yes, you here he's only wearing a towel, how could he have a gun? You don't know the situation (nor do I) as we weren't there. Maybe he was standing in a threshold or something.
Is the guy hurt? No. He got scared and slightly ruffled and is fine now. It was an honest mistake. I don't see how you in any way shape or form think that justifies murder.
Is it unfortunate? Hell yes and they should find the ***** who made the call. - meells, on 12/05/2007, -1/+18Complying or not he was obviously unarmed and at a disadvantage. I repeat, a taser is not a tool of compliance. They couldnt have simply grabbed the nude dude without being rude?
- KbuPlatinum, on 12/05/2007, -1/+18For an NYPD office to be allowed to tase actually, he has to first be tased in the police station under a controlled setting.
- nsummy, on 12/05/2007, -5/+21I saw this on Drudge Report yesterday. I knew it was only a matter of time before yet another taser article made it to digg!
- PongGod, on 12/05/2007, -0/+16The apology is warranted (yet insufficient) regardless of whether the guy was deaf or not. The ***** cops had no business tasering anyone who is clearly not a threat to them!
- Onwlyix, on 12/05/2007, -1/+16"Williams was not hurt in the incident. Police say the shooting call came from a cell phone but they still don't know who made it or why."
He wasn't hurt? WTF? Getting shocked by a ***** taser hurts. - meells, on 12/05/2007, -1/+16I would have quickly figured out that the naked guy was not the threat and checked the rest of the apartment....where I would have found nothing unusual. Then I may have kept that guy under watch as my fellow officers scoured the surrounding area for the threat. If the deaf guy needed to be restrained, I oculd have done that by hand rather than by weopon.....I mean since he was not a threat to begin with. Just a few ideas.
- darthchaosrspw, on 12/05/2007, -8/+23The last time I checked, water and electricity do not get along together too well. Are the cops THAT stupid today?
- Tr0w, on 12/05/2007, -1/+15If you did that, the cops would make sure that you didn't live long enough to see the inside of a courtroom.
- inactive, on 12/05/2007, -4/+17What next? Tazed on the crapper while reading Reader's Digest?
- princessToBe, on 12/05/2007, -0/+12I'm also deaf and yes it is very scary
- fishbert, on 12/05/2007, -2/+14I'll come round your house and beat you with a tire iron. Don't worry, you'll be fine. It won't kill you or anything.
- dBLiSS, on 12/05/2007, -0/+12I see reading the article has escaped you. BUT.. Quote from the article:
"I kept going to my ear yelling that I was scared. I can't hear! I can't hear!" - fishbert, on 12/05/2007, -1/+13Tasers are over-used because they are seen as an easy way to control an individual. This perception promotes dangerous, negligent, and just plain lazy police work.
Tasers are a non-lethal alternative to a gun, and they should be shot only under the same circumstances that a gun would otherwise be used. - n00854180t, on 12/05/2007, -2/+14Nah, the next headline should be, "Police Taser Deaf, Blind, Mute, Quadriplegic Infant to Death!"
Edit: I wouldn't be surprised if it happened, which is rather sad. - JcbAzPx, on 12/05/2007, -0/+11You should cancel anyway; you're getting ripped off.
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