Do Cops Just Tase People for Fun Now?

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http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/do-cops-just-tase-people-fun-now


Dante Parker, who died after tased by San Bernardino County sheriffs in early August, in an undated family photograph.

On the first Sunday in August, Brandon Ruff, an offduty sergeant with the Philadelphia Police Department, was given three guns by a friend who wanted to turn them in to the police under the city’s no-questions-asked firearms policy. Little did Ruff know when he walked into a station at 6:30pm, that by midnight he would be assaulted by a half-dozen police officers using Tasers—stun guns delivering up to 50,000 volts—arrested, thrown in a cell, and put under a police investigation.

“You are a piece of f**king sh*t, you are scum, and you are supervisor. You are a disgrace to me, this department and the 35th District. You do not belong on this job,” a desk sergeant yelled at Ruff, after he produced his police ID, according to a federal civil rights lawsuit filed by the officer on Monday, seeking damages and a court review of cops who use “their status as police officers to have persons falsely arrested, assaulted and [subject to] malicious prosecution and unlawfully searched... to achieve ends not reasonably related to their police duties.”

Excessive use of force by police is hardly new. But it is unusual when a police officer points the finger at abuses by fellow cops, as Ruff does in his lawsuit filed in Pennsylvania. When Ruff identified himself as a cop, one officer shouted back, “I’ll fucking tase you,” the lawsuit said. A half-dozen other officers then ambushed him as he stepped outside to make a telephone call, grabbing him, roughing him up, shocking him and finally arresting him.

Ruff’s suit was one of two filed in federal court Monday citing police brutality and T asers. In his suit, Ruff said that Philadelphia police were “deliberately indifferent” to the need for “more or different” training, supervision, investigation and discipline in for “false arrest… [and] evidence planting.” Ruff said the department also turned a blind eye to “police officers with emotional or psychological problems.”

[951-Riverside]

1. A sick sadistic cult-like culture has seeped its way into police departments around the country.

Police departments are staffed by sick, sadistic and depraved animals who look for any excuse to hurt someone and get off on seeing people hurt while hiding behind a badge and a great institution that was built on helping people. These sick people ought to be treated like pedophiles, run out of the departments and locked away from society. They have no business on the streets, they have no business having any authority over people and they have no business handling a deadly weapon.

These people are mentally ill and sick and the fact that they are given full immunity when they shoot some unarmed person or gun down hostages and innocent bystanders isnt helping things.

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This disgusting pig-shit was accused of grouping 8 women, the DA declined to press charges, he left the force and the city settled with 2 of the women while he went on to become a fitness coach.

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[Live and Learn]

2. Why yes, I believe they do. And tear gas, when they get the chance. nt

[DetlefK]

3. Torturing people for fun. Yay cops.