He obviously resisted arrest. And don't you know that people in wheel chairs have the upper arm strength of a silverback low land gorilla.

Use of taser is recommended.

It just doesn't get much worse than this does it.

It used to make me angry when people used the derogatory name *pig* for police officers.

Now all I can say is *oink oink*

peace

It's just the daily quota of pointless tazering. Pain compliance is every day news these days.

Originally posted by PsykoOps
It's just the daily quota of pointless tazering. Pain compliance is every day news these days.

The shockings will continue, until morale improves.

I added a quote to the original post that

A "hostile" crowd gathered around the apartment building during the incident. The "apartment complex came to a roar because they were tasing a guy in a wheelchair and it was for no reason," said one witness.

It would appear that police are escalating violence by unwarranted use of force via tasers. Right now it's just a "hostile" crowd. Next you know the police are going to have to bring out the SWAT Teams and Riot and Crowd Control when they want to use their tasers without justification as it would appear that the common people are getting tired of this.

If the purpose of a taser is to keep LEOs safe while performing their duties, and give them a less-lethal alternative to using their firearm, they are shooting themselves in the foot by abusing it as it would appear that these abuses are turning normal, law-abiding citizens hostile towards LEOs. If they keep over-reacting unchallenged and unrebuked, they are going to find themselves in a dangerous situation with hostile crowds beating them for their wrongful actions.

And maybe that's what LEOs need...

Maybe the LEOs need daily pain compliance until their prudence and judiciousness improves.

[edit on 21-9-2009 by fraterormus]

And Obama still wants a civilian security force? please.

Anyone who uses a tazer on an amputee whom is not wielding a weapon, is a coward.

Plain and simple.

Those LEOs are cowards.

Who are they protecting? Who are they serving?

Not me. And obviously not the poor guy whom was injured by them with electrocution weaponry.

hmmmm will there be a corp police force going up against the `boys in blue` to protect the rights of the corp they serve?

Originally posted by Harlequin
hmmmm will there be a corp police force going up against the `boys in blue` to protect the rights of the corp they serve?

Already Done!! Railroads have their own "police" force! They have for Centuries! Blackwater, or whatever its new name is, and a vast array of other Mercenary Groups operate outside the rules of law, and they look out for Corporate interests here, and especially abroad!! Private Security Corporations protect our Government buildings, the Pentagon, and the Military Bases! "Wackenhut" is the most well known, but there are plenty of other physical, economical, and technological companies providing "protections!"

If a revolution, or a mass overhaul of the government ever threatens the economic powerhouses, then we will see the 'boys in blue' crying to the populace looking for help in defending themselves and their communities. Militaries will be forced to choose Govt or Corp or People. Police forces will be an enemy of everyone, and too understaffed and undergunned to do anything about it, so they will also have to pick a side, but they will be expendable pawns to anyone they side with, because they have abused the people, and nobody else trusts them!!

ok these kind of things really piss me off

1st of all, the dumb ass woman

she got hit in the stomach by a man with a wheelchair?? ok well if she did, she obviously let it happen, the man has no legs and is in a wheelchair, and she cant get away from this threat?? does she have no legs also??

2nd of all, couldve sworn if they dont charge you within 24 hours they have to let you go, how the hell did they keep him 6 days with no charges

3rd of all, im simply sick and tired of cops, and personally i feel there should be a nationwide protest

what i would love to see is millions of people around the nation arm themselves with tasers and surround all of the police buildings and protest until something is done about police corruption

i say everyone at these protests carry tasers, pepper spray and any other legal weapon they can bring

im not saying use them, but im saying show them off, let the police know we will not stand for this crap happening on a daily/weekly basis the way that it is

sure some people will argue and say theres no way its everyday or every week, at most a few times a month

well maybe its only reported a few times a month, but i guaren damn tee that for every case thats reported at least 4 go unreported


every day from every angle the american people are being assaulted and having their way of life jeopardized

to me its sickening how no one has stood up yet to put a end to this crap, eldery Alzheimer victims, legless victims, children, elderly, middle aged, everyone is being assaulted by these power hungry fools


when the hell are we going to say enough is enough??

never too many people will support this system, and no one will stand up until it happens to them, but once it happens to them, there will be no one left to defend anyone


edited to say for the record, if this happens to me or any of my family, the police better incarcerate me for life in maximum security or i promise retaliation will take place, i would suggest the rest of the nation adhering to the same beliefs, or soon, we will no longer have the ability to retaliate, police have gone too far

[edit on 21-9-2009 by Dramey]

Notice how they say he was in jail on "suspicion" of domestic violence? So, he wasn't convicted, someone made the claim, so now the police punish you by mere accusation?

This taser stuff is totally out of control.

I'm so sick of these dang stories.

A guy in a wheelchair was not able to be controlled? Were they getting winded while trying to put cuffs on him and it was too much physical effort for them to handle? I always thought tazers were meant as a non-lethal means to subdue a perpetrator in the event that they posed a very clear and present danger.

Being a stubborn old man in a wheelchair does not seem to represent a clear and present danger.

I think that the guidelines in which it is acceptable to use these things needs to be much, much stricter, not, if they guy is getting on your nerves fry the SOB.

I thought azers were meant to replace guns resulting in fewer lethal and serious injury outcomes. So I would think that if the situation is one that doesn't warrant the drawing of a firearm, then it also doesn't warrant the drawing of an electrocution device.

Originally posted by DevilJin
And Obama still wants a civilian security force? please.

Excellent!! Something that has absolutely nothing to do with the subject still manages to have a shot at your President tossed in.

You know, when you wake up in the morning and you have but one thought in your head, and everything you see and hear is filtered through the lens of that thought...you know that is a pathological condition, don't you?