What a shame.
Pepper spray ... that’s so LAST CENTURY!!!
Cops have been told that tasers are “harmless” and therefore they use it far too soon and too often.
What fun a shot of spray and some incessant whining of “It Burns!!!” when you can lay a guy out cold and watch him soil himself?
Pepper Spray causes really bad asthmatic reactions, including respiratory arrest and death.
Many PD’s now will spray and tase the same suspect if he continues to resist, to prevent the overuse of tasers.
Not a bad option if you come upon two people fighting each other.
Oh, darn. Hate it when that happens.
No description of the ute was given.
Very possibly the ute was drugged up and that was a major contributor to his death.
From MyFoxAtlanta:
The teenager’s name was not released. He was reportedly on campus for a summer program and was not a University of Cincinnati student.
No charges have been filed against the officer who used the Taser. Corcoran said witness accounts appeared to justify the officer’s actions.
http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/dpps/news/ohio-teen-dies-after-tasered-dpgonc-km-20110807_14471558
They use that phrasing at least three times in the article.
It's like the officer had no involvement. The stun gun just reached out and hit the kid. I make no comment on the officer -- it may well have been a proper action. But the journalist is choosing the wording carefully so as to shield the officer. I never like that.
What happened to physical confrontation via grabbing the little a**hole’s wrist, putting him face down, and asking him “What the F is wrong with you?”
Oh yeah, I forgot. Camera phones, lawyers, a fundamental transformation ....
No big deal. The only thing that matters is that the officer wasn’t harmed. If a few peasants die, so what?
Bet he won’t do that again.