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The Straight Story

(48,121 posts)
Sun Jun 16, 2013, 07:11 AM Jun 2013

Cops Just Love Those Tasers

Cops Just Love Those Tasers

ATLANTA (CN) - Georgia police Tasered a man with "the mind of a small child" as he stood peacefully in his own front yard with his hands in his pocket, sending him to hospital for two weeks with seizures, the man's mother claims in court.

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Isaac lives with his mother because he has the mind of a "small child," and cannot care for himself without her help, his mother says in the complaint.

Isaac rode with his mother to visit family and do laundry on June 13, 2011. When they returned and his mom took the clothes into the house, "Isaac remained outside near the car and in front of their apartment home," the complaint states.

It continues: "It was a common occurrence for Isaac to stand in his yard and simply watch the world go by.

..

"While Isaac was standing in his own yard, minding his own business, interacting with no one, and simply watching the world go by, a patrolling police car stopped in front of Isaac and his mother's home.

"Defendants Feltman and Wells got out of their patrol car and, without cause whatsoever, ordered Isaac to remove his hands from his pockets.

http://www.courthousenews.com/2013/06/14/58512.htm

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Cops Just Love Those Tasers (Original Post) The Straight Story Jun 2013 OP
You mean they weren't delivering milk? n/t Egalitarian Thug Jun 2013 #1
OUCH! BillyRibs Jun 2013 #3
Score! n/t backscatter712 Jun 2013 #9
Cops SamKnause Jun 2013 #2
This reprobate was chervilant Jun 2013 #4
SAPD: Man Tasered while attempting to save infant son from a house fire avebury Jun 2013 #5
Oh how I wish... kag Jun 2013 #6
The animals who do things like this should be put in jail. malthaussen Jun 2013 #7
They are all brave heroes! n-t Logical Jun 2013 #8
Tasers seem often to be used as an instrument to compel immediate obedience indepat Jun 2013 #10
Yay, Cops! Iggo Jun 2013 #11
What a sadistic duo. reusrename Jun 2013 #12

chervilant

(8,267 posts)
4. This reprobate was
Sun Jun 16, 2013, 08:15 AM
Jun 2013

standing in his own yard, minding his own business, interacting with no one, and simply watching the world go by...clearly, a menace to society!

( jic)

avebury

(10,952 posts)
5. SAPD: Man Tasered while attempting to save infant son from a house fire
Sun Jun 16, 2013, 09:32 AM
Jun 2013


SAN ANTONIO -- A father was tazed by San Antonio police while trying to save his infant boy from a house fire.

The incident occurred at around 2:30 a.m. Sunday during a house fire in the 100 block of Morningview Drive.

Investigators said the parents of the eight-month-old boy had dropped off their children at their grandparents' house. Somehow, a fire got started inside the home shortly thereafter.

The grandparents managed to grab one boy and rush to safety. That's when they realized one boy was still trapped inside.

Emergency crews and the children's parents arrived on the scene at around that time.

The boy's father tried several times to enter the burning home, but police held him back and ended up tazing him. SAPD said it was for his own safety.

The infant died from injuries sustained during the blaze.

Arson is under investigation. Police said the stories just don't add up.

No criminal charges have been filed.

The family is now looking for a new place to stay.

http://www.kens5.com/news/local/SAPD-Man-tazed-for-attempting-to-save-his-infant-son-from-a-house-fire--209843161.html

malthaussen

(17,205 posts)
7. The animals who do things like this should be put in jail.
Sun Jun 16, 2013, 10:06 AM
Jun 2013

It'll never happen, of course. Law and Order!

-- Mal

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