I'm a bit skeptical about this report. It would have us believe that this man was tased for no reason at all. I'm pretty sure that something is missing from the report. I'm not saying the tasing was justified, but that police don't just tase people for kicks. At least, not in public, with witnesses.

I think that when the rest of this story comes out, there will likely be some understandable reason why the man was tased. He must have done something - annoyed the police, said something rude, etc. - to get tased. Again, rudeness isn't a justification, but it would at least explain the behavior of the police.

Man tased while his Crain Ave. home burns

The report said that the tased homeowner applied 'psychological resistance'. This begs the question whether thinking is a crime today or whether this guy was trying to mind meld with them.

Either way, the police state electroshock therapy seemed like an excessive use of force, especially under the circumstances. I wonder what they would have done if he had asked them for their badge numbers?

I think that the no comment from the police dept. says a lot. If nothing else, even the P.D. officals are trying to figure out how to explain the officers report of psychological and physical active resistance B.S.

He probably wanted to go in for something.

I have never called the cops, fire department, 911 or any of that crap for anything ever. I handle what I can on my own and what I cant handle I deal with after the fact on my own.

Ever since I saw a guy get tackled and arrested for trying to get to his dog that fell through some ice, not very far from shore and it wasnt even that cold or deep, while the cops stood around doing nothing but watching the dog slowly die I realized calling them or any one of these "services" only works to make the situation worse.

Oh, after they arrested the guy and threatened to tase and arrest his wife and kids a firefighter finally came by walked in and got the dog and the dog was alright. But what should have been a 2 minute go and get the dog and go home and take a shower turned into a 2 hour authoritarian festival of abuse and stress and taxpayer expense because some idiot called the cops.

Originally posted by chiron613
I'm a bit skeptical about this report. It would have us believe that this man was tased for no reason at all. I'm pretty sure that something is missing from the report. I'm not saying the tasing was justified, but that police don't just tase people for kicks. At least, not in public, with witnesses.

I think that when the rest of this story comes out, there will likely be some understandable reason why the man was tased. He must have done something - annoyed the police, said something rude, etc. - to get tased. Again, rudeness isn't a justification, but it would at least explain the behavior of the police.

actually they do taser people just for kicks, for no reason at all

depending on how long you have been here on ats, or paying attention to non msm news, you'll have seen several and by that i mean possibly hundreds of cases where something like that has happened

its really quite pathetic





honestly i feel within the next 10 years, depending on how fast things accelerate and how bad things get or stay economically we will reach a peak with the police violence and the citizen anger

things will explode and while the police may be above punishment now, things wont last that way forever, i guarantee if things stay the way they are or get worse, there will be a day when people rise up again, just like what happened with rodney king

you never know what the incident will be, but there will be an incident where people say enough is enough and there will be riots.


i honestly feel though that if there are riots, it wont just be against the cities and society, it would be aimed more directly towards government and more specifically law enforcement

Originally posted by thisguyrighthere
He probably wanted to go in for something.

I have never called the cops, fire department, 911 or any of that crap for anything ever. I handle what I can on my own and what I cant handle I deal with after the fact on my own.

Ever since I saw a guy get tackled and arrested for trying to get to his dog that fell through some ice, not very far from shore and it wasnt even that cold or deep, while the cops stood around doing nothing but watching the dog slowly die I realized calling them or any one of these "services" only works to make the situation worse.

Oh, after they arrested the guy and threatened to tase and arrest his wife and kids a firefighter finally came by walked in and got the dog and the dog was alright. But what should have been a 2 minute go and get the dog and go home and take a shower turned into a 2 hour authoritarian festival of abuse and stress and taxpayer expense because some idiot called the cops.

you have a voice, you should have stood up, you should have gone to the news, to the police headquarters and even your city leaders and let them know what you witnessed was not acceptable

nothing will ever come to these wrongdoers unless the good people who witness such atrocities speaks up

Don't the police always say "intoxicated and combative" as an excuse to do whatever they want? If my house is burning down then you are either there to help me or get the **** out of my way. Don't even think of impeding me from going back in for family members of pets!

I'll be following this case to see how the judge rules. Kent Ohio has a history of draconian police abuses. This is the same police department that wanted to equip it officers with military M16 automatic rifles - you know, to keep rowdy students in line.