Oops. Cop wrongfully tazes city councilman's daughter

[charlie]

Officer Anthony Plummer was charged with using the Taser on Celeste Thomas, 26, while she was on her knees with her hands in the air. Policy dictates a Taser should only be used if a suspect is resisting arrest or has assaulted the officer, The Cincinnati Enquirer reported Monday.

"A preliminary review shows he is not in compliance with our standards and he is being investigated for unnecessary and excessive use of force," Police Chief Thomas Streicher said.

Plummer's police powers were revoked during the internal investigation, the Enquirer said.

He has had use-of-force complaints against him several times, resulting in a suspension and two reprimands. He was once fired from the force, but was reinstated after an appeal.

Thomas is a daughter of City Councilman Cecil Thomas, a former police officer who heads the council's law and safety committee.

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/08/25/Cincinnati-officer-suspended-for-Taser-use/UPI-20531251175939

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

1. Why would they give him that many chances?

[charlie]

3. Got me

Somebody needs to answer for rehiring this nitwit.

[PM Martin]

30. Because the police are the government.

Being a cop is a license to assault and kill without repercussions.

[damntexdem]

17. He hadn't tazed the councilman's daughter before.

He finally picked the wrong victim. Other people -- oh, why should the police care?

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

26. He's been punished for excessive force in the past.

[Occulus]

32. Ineffectively, as we now know.

I wonder if that punishment was desk duty while maintaining pay grade. Or better yet, a paid vacation.

[TankLV]

20. Because he's still perfecting his "pig" qualifications...

he's certainly lost his officer ones long ago...

[RamboLiberal]

2. Say Bye Bye Job Officer Plummer

That's what happens when you're overzealous & taze someone who daddy has clout.

[blueknight]

5. i live across the river from cincy

they have, without a doubt, the most racist police department in the country. this happens daily in cincy, the only reason you are hearing about it is because the cops fucked up. they didnt know her dad was a councilman

[bluestateguy]

4. The cop acted stupidly

Maybe the president can't say that because the police apologists will go apeshit, but I can.

[Shell Beau]

10. He absolutely did act stupidly. But I will not blame all cops

for the stupid ones. If that makes me an apologist, then so be it. For every stupid, racist, piece of shit cop we hear about on the news or wherever, there are thousands who risk their lives for the good. You don't hear so much about that.

[opihimoimoi]

6. 3 Strikes and he is OUTTA HERE...he is a psycho posing as a Cop...he is not alone

[Tesha]

7. Here's Cecil. Now you know everything you need to know about why the cop tazed his daughter.

[troubledamerican]

28. I should have guessed

[Canuckistanian]

8. Oooo, rotten luck

Too bad for that cop, he broke the unwritten rule.

"Thou shalt not taze anyone important, nor the offspring of someone important"

[intheflow]

33. And of course the assumption is, the only important people are white.

:puke:

[L0oniX]

9. Yea ...it's only a few bad apples ....pffft ...smell it!

[HughMoran]

11. Cops seem to get a kick out of tazing people just 'cause they can

I wonder if this is a new form of sadistic behavior syndrome. It reminds me of Skinner (not ours - lol).

[asdjrocky]

14. They do.

I've seen it. I've seen four or five cops in the bar I worked after a good tazing many, many times. The guy that does the tazing always gets a round and then they all have fun doing little pantomimes of the person jerking from the voltage running through them. It's a regular hoot.

99% of the cops give the rest a bad name.

[lolly]

21. Love to see a video of that on YouTube

Just sayin'.

[asdjrocky]

22. Fuck that. I know how much it hurts to be abused by the police.

I'll keep my head, thank you. And, I quit the bar business a few years ago.

[lolly]

24. Good Point.

But it would be nice if more people were aware of this problem.

[Union Yes]

12. Should officers be tased first before we issue them a taser? To teach them what it feels like?

[Leftist Agitator]

18. Cops ARE tazed during their training.

And they are told that it's OK to use the tazer to get uncompliant subjects to do what they want them to do.

Basically, they are issued a torture device and told that it is OK to use it to torture people into obeying their orders, lawful or otherwise.

[Leftist Agitator]

19. dupe

[Shell Beau]

23. My brother (a state trooper, former cop) has been tazed at least

3 times that I know of. I have seen a tape of one of the times. He has never tazed anyone, but he would if the circmstances were appropriate. And by appropriate, I don't mean this kind of stuff.

[Rozlee]

13. And she wasn't even somebody's great grandmother

[asdjrocky]

15. Old homeless person... no problem.

Councilman's daughter...problem. What have we learned here? Be careful who you taze.

[seabeyond]

16. people, kids, old people being tasered to death and ALWAYS their fault, never cops onus

and now this one... a counsilmans daughter, and he is charged.

i never hear that these cops are charged when they have kid handcuffed adn tasered,

geeeesh

[PM Martin]

31. Only if the police abuse a right winger is the onus on the cop.

[omega minimo]

25. OOOPS

[hmorehead]

27. Aw what the heck

it seemed pretty funny at the time.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

29. Lock his ass up.

He is a menace to us all.