Refused to admit the guy because he was harming himself and bleeding from a head wound?
What the heck?
They admit people all the time under the same circumstances!
I guess the next time Flores arrests someone they will listen to him and behave.
“This guy was completely out of it and was very dangerous...”
Yeppers. The guy was on the ground with his hands handcuffed behind his back flopping around on the ground like a fish high on drugs. He couldn’t seem to get on his feet without assistance. Best to just put him out of his misery, right?
If he was a bodybuilder on bath salts, that changes the equation of the situation quite a bit. Bath salts cause people to go on outrageous streaks of violence and if this guy was still trying to inflict harm while already injured and in cuffs, he might have been strong enough, wild enough, and violent enough to do it.
I’m not a big fan of the modern U.S. police force and what they view as appropriate, but I do want to judge each case on its merits.
I'm trying to imagine calling the police to tell them that I had just killed a man who was handcuffed, because he was in danger of hurting himself.
How do you think that would end for me?
Guy high on bath salts,
cuffed but has already ‘fronted’ a couple of times,
5 previous tazes with no reaction,
guy shoves someone who bumps into cop’s gun hand,
accidental discharge.
I’m goin’ with the grand jury this time.
On the afternoon of March 8 however, 5 feet, 8 inch tall, 217 pound Saenz had been arrested and brought into custody after acting strangely at a local grocery store and mental health treatment facility.
Lesson #1: Don't attract the attention of the Costumed Ones.