Unarmed man, handcuffed, seat-belted and trapped in car, makes 3 cops fear for their lives.

[DetlefK]

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/mom-calls-911-mental-help-her-son-cops-show-taser-him-death-while-hes-restrained

Chase Sherman had a psychotic breakdown during a car-ride with his family, possibly from consuming a drug beforehand. Unable to keep driving, the family parked the car on the roadside and called cops and paramedics.

When the three deputies arrived, “they reached across me trying to get the handcuffs on him. I got out of the car and they told me to go back by the ambulance.” Still in the vehicle, Chase’s mother says she heard one deputy tell Chase, “We’re going to shoot you.” She said,“Don’t shoot him, don’t shoot him,” his father added. The deputy reportedly responded by saying, “I have to protect myself.” Deputies then instructed everyone else to exit the vehicle. During the ensuing struggle, Chase was tased repeatedly. “More officers kept coming and we think they kept tasing him,” Chase’s father said. “They were treating him like a rabid dog.”

During the struggle, the police kept EMTs back, saying the situation was not safe. Chase’s parents maintain that the deputies were never in danger, that their son was not armed, and that if the deputies felt threatened they could have just stepped away and closed the vehicle doors. Instead, the father says, the officers “just went nuts.”



They tased him to death.

3 cops tased a handcuffed and seat-belted man to death, in front of his family, fulling knowing that he was having a mental breakdown at the time.

[ManiacJoe]

1. Quite often the police is the wrong "help" agency to be calling.

If your "friend" is not cooperative, and if you don't want him shot or tased or beaten or sprayed, then call someone other than the cops.

A law suit will probably be filed, as it should be.

[DLevine]

2. Only call the cops as a last resort.

You can't assume the cops responding to your call value your life or the lives of your loved ones.

[Joe Chi Minh]

3. If there is one thread that unifies all these ever-proliferating reports

of the murders of innocents by rogue police, it is their transparent mendacity. They are forced to lie, more so even than the right-wing in politics, from who it is considered normal, and at worst 'an advertising puff''.

[Omaha Steve]

4. Thanks for posting

K&R!

OS

[AllyCat]

5. Taking your life and your family's lives into jeopardy calling the cops.

I'd love to hear some good stories, but the bad ones dwarf all the good they do.

[tk2kewl]

6. Is it a fascist police state yet?

[Javaman]

7. according to those in charge, no, but to everyone else, yes. nt

[Scalded Nun]

8. The good ones dwarf the good as well, by not standing up to the bad.

It makes them just as evil as the rest.

This is no longer a discussion about 'bad'.

The bastards are just plain evil.

You do not know who to trust so you trust none of them. To reach out to them for whatever reason is to put your and your family's lives in jeopardy. Now, instead of just reacting to a situation by asking for assistance, a person has to evaluate the worst possible outcome before calling for 'assistance'.

[Live and Learn]

9. Time to take their toys away since they can't be trusted to use them properly.

We obviously need mental health workers to be sent along on calls like these and to be the ones in charge.

[Rex]

10. I don't get this horrid shit of frying someone to death, because that is what they did.

I wonder if he had smoke coming off his body. His insides were probably cooked. Cops...avoid them at all costs if you are in a situation which is not nominal. Evidently it is a death sentence if cops roll up and the situation is unusual.

Do they not train cops in crisis management?

[DetlefK]

11. Electricity doesn't kill that way.

Electricity kills by confusing your heart into stopping to beat.

[Rex]

12. I know, people fry themselves by touching live voltage. It can burn the body just like fire.

I didn't say it killed him, I said it fried the insides of his body. I don't know for sure what killed him (no doubt heart stopping), but 50,000 volts over and over has to do untold damage to organs etc..

Then again, tasers were not meant to be used like that imo.

[Iggo]

13. Yay, Cops!

They're the best!

[d_legendary1]

14. They cuff and taze seizure, heatstroke, and mentally impaired victims as well

Why aren't law enforcement officers taught to handle people with disabilities? Why treat them like they're high on drugs? The shoot first, ask questions later routine is getting kinda old.

[dickthegrouch]

15. The more training they get

The more they have to be paid. And taxes are too high already.

Seriously if we reduced spending by 1% each year on the MIC, we'd have enough to fund everything else that isn't being addressed.

No more Bombs, no more guns, no more war planes, tanks, grenades ....

[d_legendary1]

16. There's a bunch of stuff we could fund

if we didn't give it to the MIC.