Police Brutality

[Gameface]

Remember when the Tazer was presented as an alternative to shooting someone or beating them senseless with a night stick?

Now, apparently, for fat cops, it's an alternative to having to chase someone.

Yep. A tazer is "less-than lethal." It is intended to replace firearms where the use of a firearm would be justified, but less-than lethal force can accomplish the same outcome. I see it as a way to protect police officers from having to kill a person when they can use an alternative that saves them that trauma. When less-than lethal force is used it should be in an instance where the life of the perpetrator could be taken justifiably. If that's not the case then less-than lethal force should not be used, at all.

 

[TheDude]

Nothing new from the pigs in this country. They've always been criminally abusive with their power, fat, intellectually limited, corrupt and fraudulent public servants. Much like the politicians in this country, there won't be any change. The pool of citizens the police force and politics has to draw from is risibly noxious.

It is nice that with the increase in accessibility to cell phone cameras/flip cams the pigs have been exposed for so many unthinkable acts to the public. But that hasn't really helped fix the issue. It's gotten those specific morons fired, or even arrested themselves, but it doesn't change the fact the rest of the force will always be made up of totalitarian zealots.

This is complete garbage. Not saying I agree with what happened in the video, but your blanket statement about police is uneducated and offensive. Who are you going to call when someone's in your house in the middle of the night, and you are in your shower hiding and pissing yourself?

 

[//r00t 4 Jazz]

This is complete garbage. Not saying I agree with what happened in the video, but your blanket statement about police is uneducated and offensive. Who are you going to call when someone's in your house in the middle of the night, and you are in your shower hiding and pissing yourself?

A Urologist for bladder control problems?

 

[Beantown]

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/world/taser-jolt-leaves-florida-woman-braindead/story-e6frf7lf-1226278013583

She also had cocaine and Oxycodone in her system.

-Taking harsh drugs

-Driving with a suspended license

-Leaving the scene of two accidents

-Fleeing from a police car after being arrested

Bad decisions lead to sad consequences, the officer could have very well tackled her as well and made her hit her head.

The point is don't put yourself in bad situations.

 

[Jerry Lundegaard]

This is complete garbage. Not saying I agree with what happened in the video, but your blanket statement about police is uneducated and offensive. Who are you going to call when someone's in your house in the middle of the night, and you are in your shower hiding and pissing yourself?

Not the pigs. If criminals were successful enough to penetrate my building's security and then get into my condo uninvited - I'd be offering them whatever they wanted to keep me unharmed. Yes, I may wet myself but I certainly wouldn't be hiding in the shower.

 

[Archie Moses]

Wow, I used to think Franklin was smart. This is like saying, "Shark brutality. A man was eaten by a shark while swimming with great whites."

 

[Gameface]

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/w...-woman-braindead/story-e6frf7lf-1226278013583

She also had cocaine and Oxycodone in her system.

-Taking harsh drugs

-Driving with a suspended license

-Leaving the scene of two accidents

-Fleeing from a police car after being arrested

Bad decisions lead to sad consequences, the officer could have very well tackled her as well and made her hit her head.

The point is don't put yourself in bad situations.

The police are not allowed to kill people for those offenses. Less-than lethal force can cause severe injury and death and should only be used when killing the person is justifiable. In this case it was not.

 

[Archie Moses]

The police are not allowed to kill people for those offenses. Less-than lethal force can cause severe injury and death and should only be used when killing the person is justifiable. In this case it was not.

If you run from the police, using a taser is justifiable. What if she got into another car and ran someone over trying to get away? Then what? You stop a problem before it becomes a bigger problem.

 

[franklin]

Wow, I used to think Franklin was smart. This is like saying, "Shark brutality. A man was eaten by a shark while swimming with great whites."

-11, guy. You have no clue how brutal tazers can be, do you? There is a reason they are classified at the bottom of "less than lethal" and not under "Empty Hand Control".

I suppose this means you reject force continuum and established US legal precedents outright.

Supporting the offensive use of tazers to detain unarmed, non-hazardous citizens is akin to supporting a pit maneuver on a speeding Camaro as an alternative to flashing lights and sirens, regardless of whether or not Jeremy Evans is jumping over it at the time.

Just about every law enforcement agency has a Use of Force Policy, and this is widely considered a violation of policy as well as human rights.

Here's a link provided by National Institute of Justice with a couple hundred such policies:

https://www.less-lethal.org/web/articles.aspx?group=2

 

[franklin]

If you run from the police, using a taser is justifiable. What if she got into another car and ran someone over trying to get away? Then what? You stop a problem before it becomes a bigger problem.

Go on. Let's hear the justification.

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/world/taser-jolt-leaves-florida-woman-braindead/story-e6frf7lf-1226278013583

She also had cocaine and Oxycodone in her system.

-Taking harsh drugs

-Driving with a suspended license

-Leaving the scene of two accidents

-Fleeing from a police car after being arrested

Bad decisions lead to sad consequences, the officer could have very well tackled her as well and made her hit her head.

The point is don't put yourself in bad situations.

Isn't it funny when your self-righteousness causes you to go against your religious convictions? Your merciless stance is harsher than the Law of Moses, something Mormonism rejects as past its time. Supporting unreasonable force is also unconstitutional. You better have a chat with bish about your anti-Americanness.

 

[Archie Moses]

It has nothing to do with my religious beliefs it has to do with my common sense beliefs. Don't run from cops. Don't hit and run. Don't do drugs. Don't be a moron.

 

[Archie Moses]

-11, guy. You have no clue how brutal tazers can be, do you? There is a reason they are classified at the bottom of "less than lethal" and not under "Empty Hand Control".

I suppose this means you reject force continuum and established US legal precedents outright.

Supporting the offensive use of tazers to detain unarmed, non-hazardous citizens is akin to supporting a pit maneuver on a speeding Camaro as an alternative to flashing lights and sirens, regardless of whether or not Jeremy Evans is jumping over it at the time.

Just about every law enforcement agency has a Use of Force Policy, and this is widely considered a violation of policy as well as human rights.

Here's a link provided by National Institute of Justice with a couple hundred such policies:

https://www.less-lethal.org/web/articles.aspx?group=2

I'm not saying necessarily that the cop had to use the taser. In a perfect world, there could have been a better solution and outcome. I'm just saying that she asked for it by being a moron.