Another death from from Taser

[danmand]

A 20 year old man from Maryland dies from being tasered.
http://ekstrabladet.dk/112/article360715.ece

PS: notice the video of the polish tourist killed in Canada on the danish newspapers website.

 

[Esco!]

Way ahead of you, mate

https://terb.cc/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=1921522#post1921522

 

[danmand]

Better two posts than none. These things are dangerous.

 

[Esco!]

Just released RCMP report over seventy-five percent of people tasered were unarmed:

http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5gNfT91gLTOzuJlfNv6ZnX7NvW2aA

And this report was initially censored by the cops (gee I wonder why), but released under FOI Act

 

[LancsLad]

Just released RCMP report over seventy-five percent of people tasered were unarmed:

http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5gNfT91gLTOzuJlfNv6ZnX7NvW2aA

And this report was initially censored by the cops (gee I wonder why), but released under FOI Act

Just what kind of a threat can you be to the coppers if you don't have arms. Just how lazy are these guys??

 

[danmand]

Just what kind of a threat can you be to the coppers if you don't have arms. Just how lazy are these guys??

The report says it:

"But they also suggest a pattern of use by the Mounties as a
quick means to keep relatively low-risk prisoners, drunks and unruly suspects in line.

 

[Esco!]

The report says it:

"But they also suggest a pattern of use by the Mounties as a
quick means to keep relatively low-risk prisoners, drunks and unruly suspects in line.

You left out:

"Stun guns were initially billed as a police alternative to lethal force, she said in an interview.

"What we're seeing is that they're using them in situations to subdue, gain compliance or perhaps even punitively when someone has reacted in ways they don't approve of."

Punitively meaning someone told a cop to f__ck off and got tasered for it.
(at least thats how I interpret her words)

 

[lookingforitallthetime]

PS: notice the video of the polish tourist killed in Canada on the danish newspapers website.

How's the fishing today?

Esco, is that Angelina Jolie in your sig line?

 

[Fabulous]

There was death caused by the Toronto Police yesterday on the DVP in the bush. The Police had some sort of confrontation with an unarmed suspect and they killed him. They are not saying how. SIU is on the case.

 

[LancsLad]

The report says it:

"But they also suggest a pattern of use by the Mounties as a
quick means to keep relatively low-risk prisoners, drunks and unruly suspects in line.

You go fishing and no one bites, i lob a soft one and you pounce.


Unarmed vs. without arms geddit???????

 

[danmand]

How's the fishing today?

I was merely pointing out that the video is getting wide circulation
around the world. "Canada killing tourist" is not helping tourism.

 

[LancsLad]

I was merely pointing out that the video is getting wide circulation
around the world. "Canada killing tourist" is not helping tourism.

Neither is the higher value of the canadian dollar.

 

[lookingforitallthetime]

I was merely pointing out that the video is getting wide circulation
around the world. "Canada killing tourist" is not helping tourism.

Yeah, I knew what you were pointing out.

Subtle, you 'aint.

 

[shakenbake]

Damned Fucking, Lazy, Moronic Cowboys!!!!




Police review policy after Tasers used on kids

Officers defend nonlethal use of force

Monday, November 15, 2004 Posted: 8:43 AM EST (1343 GMT)
MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- Miami-Dade County Police are reviewing their policy on using Tasers after officers stunned two children with the weapons in the past few weeks.


Miami-Dade police planned to hold a news conference Monday to discuss the incidents and possible disciplinary action stemming from them. The names of both children were being withheld by CNN.
The Taser temporarily immobilizes someone from as far away as 21 feet with 50,000 volts of electricity.


The more recent of the two incidents occurred November 5, when a 12-year-old girl who was skipping school was found drinking and smoking in a swimming pool, Miami-Dade police officer William Nelson stated in an incident report. He said he responded to an anonymous call about the activities.


He said he told the girl he was taking her to school. As they walked to the police car, she ran away.


"I advised her to stop several times," he said in the report. She "continued running even to the point of starting to run into lanes of traffic."
Nelson said he used the Taser for his and the girl's safety, striking her in the base of the neck and lower right back.


The girl was released into her mother's custody and taken to a doctor.
"I couldn't breathe, and I was, like, nervous, and I was scared at the same time," the girl told CNN.


About two weeks earlier, a first-grader was shot with a Taser at school when he threatened to cut his leg with a piece of broken glass, authorities said. The boy's family said he vomited after the jolt.
"If there's three officers, it's nothing to tell a 6-year-old holding a glass, if you feel threatened, 'Hey, here's a piece of candy, hey, here's a toy. Let the glass go,'" the boy's mother told CNN.


But police insisted using the gun was the only option.


"We're happy [to be] here talking about this as opposed to injuries he might have caused to himself with that piece of glass," detective Juan del Castillo said.


Community activists are calling for a meeting with police.
"There needs to be more in-depth study on using the Taser on children," Georgia Ayers said.


Taser International says more than 5,000 police agencies use its product, that it is safe to use on anyone weighing at least 60 pounds.

 

[danmand]

Subtle, you 'aint.

Considering the audience on Terb, would you be?

PS: I usually know when I am fishing, and I did not think I was. Maybe it
has become a habit?

 

[lookingforitallthetime]

Back to the topic.

If I had stocks in Taser International I'd consider dumping them. Apparently the RCMP is re-evaluating it's position on taser use.

A good thing IMO. It appears to me a bullet in the leg is safer, at least for the target.

 

[Quest4Less]

Back to the topic.

If I had stocks in Taser International I'd consider dumping them. Apparently the RCMP is re-evaluating it's position on taser use.

A good thing IMO. It appears to me a bullet in the leg is safer, at least for the target.

If the police are going to shoot someone they shoot to kill. Real life is not like the movies where a cop can shoot a weapon out of the bad guys hand. Cops are trained to shoot centre mass - a kill shot.

 

[Esco!]

If the police are going to shoot someone they shoot to kill. Real life is not like the movies where a cop can shoot a weapon out of the bad guys hand. Cops are trained to shoot centre mass - a kill shot.

Yup!

They're trained to shoot for the chest and not the head.
Why, because you'll miss the head

 

[danmand]

If the police are going to shoot someone they shoot to kill. Real life is not like the movies where a cop can shoot a weapon out of the bad guys hand. Cops are trained to shoot centre mass - a kill shot.

That is what I learned: Don't shout if you don't want to kill.

 

[slowpoke]

I was merely pointing out that the video is getting wide circulation
around the world. "Canada killing tourist" is not helping tourism.

The introduction of Tasers seems to have revolutionized policing far more than most of us had imagined. It took that Vancouver video incident and the resulting spotlight on Taser statistics to show us that a growing number of our police are becoming knee-jerk immobilizing squads driving specially-marked cars instead of the responsible, even-handed arbiters and protectors of the peace they pretend to be.

The same day that Polish guy got whacked in Vancouver, a Montreal drunk driver got himself Tasered because he became unruly in the police station. They already had him in custody but still used a Taser on him instead of doing whatever it was they did with drunks before Tasers were invented. He died too. Thank God somebody caught one of these incidents on video and drew our attention to it because it was totally under the radar. Things will now change but it won't be because of vigilance or self-monitoring by any of our police agencies. It will be because those cops got caught on tape, because we have freedom of information laws, because we have a healthy press and because Canadians know an inappropriate use of force when they see it.