http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/60261.html
This is just no longer acceptable. These situations are not accidents. They are the results of intense police training. The question is: Whose format of training are they being taught by?
This situation makes it quite obvious that there is no room for independent thought allowed for otherwise this bed ridden woman would have never been tazed.
Lonnie Tinsley of El Reno, Oklahoma made a nearly fatal mistake last December 22 when he went to check on his grandma, Lona Vernon.
Concerned that Lona hadn’t taken her medications, Lonnie called 911 in the expectation that an emergency medical technician would be dispatched to the apartment to evaluate the bedridden 86-year-old woman.
Instead, that call for help was answered by nearly a dozen armed tax-feeders employed by the El Reno Police Department.
Understandably alarmed — and probably more than a little disgusted — by the presence of uninvited armed strangers in her home, Lona ordered them to leave. This directive, issued by a fragile female octogenarian confined to a hospital-style bed and tethered to an oxygen tank, was interpreted as “aggressive” behavior by Officer Thomas Duran, who ordered one of his associates : “Taser her!”
Showing posts with label Taser. Show all posts
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Friday, April 16, 2010
BART police pull Tasers, will retrain officers
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/04/16/MNK81CVF03.DTL
(04-15) 18:47 PDT OAKLAND -- The BART Police Department stripped its officers of Tasers on Thursday, days after a sergeant fired the electric darts of his stun gun at a 13-year-old boy fleeing from police in Richmond on his bicycle, sources told The Chronicle.
BART officials, who said officers would be retrained to use the devices, attributed the decision to the Richmond incident as well as a recent federal court ruling that narrowed the circumstances under which police can use Tasers.
The officials said they could not comment on the Richmond case, citing privacy laws that apply to internal investigations. Interim Police Chief Dash Butler said only that the incident accelerated plans that were already in progress to retrain officers and update policies on the proper use of Tasers, which BART police began using in December 2008.
Sources familiar with the matter, however, told The Chronicle that a veteran sergeant in a moving patrol car fired his Taser several days ago at the 13-year-old boy, who was fleeing from an altercation at BART's Richmond Station on a bicycle.
The darts missed the boy, said the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/04/16/MNK81CVF03.DTL#ixzz0lH2mN4hA
(04-15) 18:47 PDT OAKLAND -- The BART Police Department stripped its officers of Tasers on Thursday, days after a sergeant fired the electric darts of his stun gun at a 13-year-old boy fleeing from police in Richmond on his bicycle, sources told The Chronicle.
BART officials, who said officers would be retrained to use the devices, attributed the decision to the Richmond incident as well as a recent federal court ruling that narrowed the circumstances under which police can use Tasers.
The officials said they could not comment on the Richmond case, citing privacy laws that apply to internal investigations. Interim Police Chief Dash Butler said only that the incident accelerated plans that were already in progress to retrain officers and update policies on the proper use of Tasers, which BART police began using in December 2008.
Sources familiar with the matter, however, told The Chronicle that a veteran sergeant in a moving patrol car fired his Taser several days ago at the 13-year-old boy, who was fleeing from an altercation at BART's Richmond Station on a bicycle.
The darts missed the boy, said the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/04/16/MNK81CVF03.DTL#ixzz0lH2mN4hA
Police used Taser on man in epileptic seizure
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/apr/13/police-taser-inquiry-epilepsy-seizure
Greater Manchester police is being investigated after its officers fired a Taser gun at a man who became aggressive while having an epileptic seizure.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission said today it was studying claims the officer used excessive and unnecessary force in firing the stun gun at the 40-year-old man, who has not been named.
A Taser is a handheld device that issues a 50,000-volt shock, temporarily incapacitating a person by interfering with muscle control. The officers had been called to assist paramedics who were struggling with the man who had collapsed in a gym in Manchester in November last year.
The man reportedly bit ambulance staff and punched emergency service paramedics after he fell ill at the Powerleague gym in Whalley Range, south Manchester.
Greater Manchester police is being investigated after its officers fired a Taser gun at a man who became aggressive while having an epileptic seizure.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission said today it was studying claims the officer used excessive and unnecessary force in firing the stun gun at the 40-year-old man, who has not been named.
A Taser is a handheld device that issues a 50,000-volt shock, temporarily incapacitating a person by interfering with muscle control. The officers had been called to assist paramedics who were struggling with the man who had collapsed in a gym in Manchester in November last year.
The man reportedly bit ambulance staff and punched emergency service paramedics after he fell ill at the Powerleague gym in Whalley Range, south Manchester.
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