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kentuck

(111,104 posts) Sat May 5, 2018, 10:49 AM May 2018

Colorado Springs man dies after being tased by police

Source: The Gazette Telegraph

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Their loved one died after an incident with Colorado Springs police.

Jeffrey Melvin was brought to Memorial Hospital on April 26th. His family members say they did not find out he was there, until Tuesday.

"We got to the hospital, my family. When we got there we were just stunned. The doctors were saying, his nerves were damaged. A doctor said it could be consistent with tazing to his body,” Taneesha Melvin said.

Colorado Springs police confirm that on April 26th officers were called to an apartment complex on East Fountain, on a reported disturbance.

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Colorado Springs man dies after being tased by police (Original Post) kentuck May 2018 OP

"I've never seen somebody tased so mush in my life" mercuryblues May 2018 #1

police use their pepper sprays & especially the electric stun devices to torture people. Sunlei May 2018 #2

Better than a bullet, most of the time. n/t christx30 May 2018 #3

police shoot 'runners', if they can grab them they'll electrice shock them.it's the 'new' beating. Sunlei May 2018 #4

As my ex wife the cop always said safeinOhio May 2018 #5

It's a crying shame....the man had four kids. KY_EnviroGuy May 2018 #6

You just couldn't help yourself could you? "He shouldn't have fought police". Solomon May 2018 #9

you know...I'm a a brown person. Native and almost 'full-blood' cntrfthrs May 2018 #14

+ 1 red dog 1 May 2018 #10

It never stops, does it DFW May 2018 #7

Either stringent regulations should be placed on the use of tasers, or they should be outlawed. Nitram May 2018 #8

Whatever the guy was doing, he did not deserve the death penalty, red dog 1 May 2018 #11

police in milwaukee MURDERED a mentally ill man. tazed him 18 times. pansypoo53219 May 2018 #12

I saw this NewEnglandAutumn May 2018 #13

mercuryblues

(14,536 posts)

1. "I've never seen somebody tased so mush in my life"

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Sat May 5, 2018, 10:57 AM

May 2018

"He tried to get away and jump out the window. They pulled him back in. Then immediately he asked for my help, when I tried to help him out the cops pepper sprayed me, they kept on tazing my friend. Just to hear somebody screaming and hearing it again, and again, and again. I've heard shots before but I've never seen somebody tased so many times in my life,” Jordan told 11 News.

http://www.kktv.com/content/news/Family-wants-answers-after-loved-one-died-after-incident-with-police-481817331.html

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)

2. police use their pepper sprays & especially the electric stun devices to torture people.

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Sat May 5, 2018, 12:06 PM

May 2018

same EXACT thing as multi shocks from a cattle prod.

christx30

(6,241 posts)

3. Better than a bullet, most of the time. n/t

Reply to Sunlei (Reply #2)

Sat May 5, 2018, 12:11 PM

May 2018

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)

4. police shoot 'runners', if they can grab them they'll electrice shock them.it's the 'new' beating.

Reply to christx30 (Reply #3)

Sat May 5, 2018, 12:18 PM

May 2018

wonder how many battery packs police go through a year.

safeinOhio

(32,696 posts)

5. As my ex wife the cop always said

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Sat May 5, 2018, 12:22 PM

May 2018

"Who's going to arrest me, I''m a cop".

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,492 posts)

6. It's a crying shame....the man had four kids.

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Sat May 5, 2018, 01:10 PM

May 2018

He shouldn't have fought police. But, I'm constantly amazed in this modern age that animal researchers can bring down a lion or elephant with sedative darts with no long-term injury, but our police wind up killing dozens of people every year just trying to stop and restrain them.

There has to be a better way....... ........

Solomon

(12,311 posts)

9. You just couldn't help yourself could you? "He shouldn't have fought police".

Reply to KY_EnviroGuy (Reply #6)

Sat May 5, 2018, 03:13 PM

May 2018

Always the victim's fault when the victim is black.

cntrfthrs

(252 posts)

14. you know...I'm a a brown person. Native and almost 'full-blood'

Reply to Solomon (Reply #9)

Sat May 5, 2018, 11:00 PM

May 2018

and have had plenty of run-ins with the police...YOU DONT FIGHT BACK OR TRY TO RUN...that's the quickest way to get your head beat in or shot...and if they do it to you anyway, THEN you have grounds for a lawsuit...

red dog 1

(27,824 posts)

10. + 1

Reply to KY_EnviroGuy (Reply #6)

Sat May 5, 2018, 03:47 PM

May 2018

DFW

(54,414 posts)

7. It never stops, does it

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Sat May 5, 2018, 01:32 PM

May 2018

Again and again and again and again......

Nitram

(22,822 posts)

8. Either stringent regulations should be placed on the use of tasers, or they should be outlawed.

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Sat May 5, 2018, 02:20 PM

May 2018

red dog 1

(27,824 posts)

11. Whatever the guy was doing, he did not deserve the death penalty,

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Sat May 5, 2018, 04:14 PM

May 2018

and this type of police over-reaction is happening way too much these days.

We're in the 21st Century, yet the police are still killing innocent people with their guns, tasers, and choke-holds.
There HAS to be a better way to handle unarmed suspects!

K&R, thanks for posting.

pansypoo53219

(20,981 posts)

12. police in milwaukee MURDERED a mentally ill man. tazed him 18 times.

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Sat May 5, 2018, 04:20 PM

May 2018

+ they were NOT fired or disciplined. AND they broke into his apartment & he was in the shower. i know his lady neighbor was upset, but WTF.

NewEnglandAutumn

(184 posts)

13. I saw this

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Sat May 5, 2018, 07:17 PM

May 2018

film when it came out it should have made tapering people much more controversial.

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