This kid might have had biological issues (as has been reported in the articles you say are strong on hype). Ha, since when has the lamestream media been sympathetic to Judeo-christian religious types?
Instead of calling people who are troubled by what has been reported thus far, "cop haters" "paranoics" and people with "christian martyr complex" did you every stop to wonder like many of us are, why they needed TWO taser shots? Yeah, you can call me judgmental and ignorant, it still appears to me to be bully SISSY police work.
If your concern is with the efficacy of tasers, then the circumstances surrounding the arrest should be irrelevant. There is certainly no reason to attack these officers. Your concern should be addressed to the manufacturer or those in the police hierarchy and civilian oversight who have approved the use of the device. Instead, we get people like you calling them sissies in such a cowardly fashion. Disgusting.
...and the Bible is an important part of the story because he wasn't carrying a weapon and was probably acting like your average street preacher.
You have no clue how he was acting. You don't know what his movements were, whether he was aggressive and threatening or how the interaction with the police proceeded. You don't know whether he assaulted the officers, whether he threatened a civilian, whether there was probable cause for arrest, or whether he resisted arrest. You don't know the manner in which he struggled with the officers, whether he was on any drugs. For all you know he was beating people in the head with the damned Bible.
Don't know if you have ever lived in a large metropolitan area and come across one on the street. Some I have seen act mentally deranged.
I doubt if any of these Crazy Shouting Jesus Guys are free of mental illness. What they are doing is inherently nuts.
This kid might have had biological issues (as has been reported in the articles you say are strong on hype).
Which is not dispositive of whether the use of force was justified.
Ha, since when has the lamestream media been sympathetic to Judeo-christian religious types?
Yeah, modern Christians in the most religious nation in the Western World are all a bunch of St. Stephens. They're fighting modern day Neros who have the temerity to wish people a "Happy Holidays" and the gall to request that religious texts not adorn public courthouses.
Instead of calling people who are troubled by what has been reported thus far, "cop haters" "paranoics" and people with "christian martyr complex" did you every stop to wonder like many of us are, why they needed TWO taser shots?
I imagine because the first one was ineffective.
More to the point, these people you refer to have not expressed that they are "troubled"; they have judged these officers guilty as ignorant Christophobes, based solely on the fact the guy is dead, it was a taser that was used, that he had a bible and was shouting about Jesus before the encounter.
Look, if you don't want to be called "cop haters," "paranoiacs" and people with "Christian martyr complexes," then stop acting like that way.
Yeah, you can call me judgmental and ignorant, it still appears to me to be bully SISSY police work.
You are judgmental, ignorant, and a lot of other things besides...