Posted on 05/16/2014 12:29:55 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A young hospital patient is tased by Baltimore City Police, then falls into a coma and dies. The department launches an investigation into the officers’ actions at Good Samaritan Hospital.
The death of a 19-year-old hospital patient this week is the focal point of a Baltimore City Police investigation after they say one of their officers tased the teen who was in a violent altercation with Good Samaritan Hospital security earlier this month.
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From what other people said, he was pulled out of the truck immediately after the stop and it went straight to hell from there.
I don’t even know if they took time to run plates.
These are the same people who, when responding to shots fired in the west end of town one night, pulled over all of us on motorcycles instead of going into the urban jungle where the shooter was.
We all got shook down and roughed up.
A grinning psycho threw me face down on his cruiser hood, thoroughly felt me up and then dry humped me while laughing in my husband’s face.
After all that, he just let me go.
A county sheriff gave me the perv’s badge number and name and told me to press charges.
I did.
And guess what happened to the cop.
Exactly nothing.
I am pretty sure I read a month or so back where the doughnut processors had tazed someone in a nursing home.
No dogs were killing in the filming of the incident, however and all the Rambo Wannabe’s went home safe.
John Ross wrote a great Novel. You should read thru it...Just saying.
The beauty of the "I was in fear for my life" is that the officer does not even have to explain what he is in fear for his life from. It could be that he fears getting hit on the head by a meteorite. All he has to do is think, "I am in fear for my life", pull out his pistol and start blasting. Heaven help the poor soul[s] nearby.
If those shouting mutually contradictory orders and pointing guns at an innocent citizen did not wear magical government costumes, no one here would believe “flight or fight” to be an irrational response to the situation.
Such people judge the rightness or wrongness of an action based not on the action, but on the costume donned by the perpetrators.
This should have been in post 24, but let me add them now. I am sorry for the loss of your cousin.
Naah. Taking the guns away or the tazers or the nightsticks does nothing. The conduct is the problem and the conduct is not and will not be addressed. And in all truth I do believe that everyone, including abusive police, have the right to self defense.
The solutionin my view is to drastically reduce the number of police and for people to stop calling them unless someone needs killing. Because that’s becoming the all too likely result.
Why the hell would a cop want to that???
He is required to get uncompromising submission to his (her) authority. PERIOD.
No. The real problem isn’t the occasional bad cop.
The real problem is no matter how egregious the outrage, all cops close ranks and protect him or her.
There is no effective mechanism for punishing, let alone removing, a rotten apple, no matter how much it’s oozing, no matter how thick the cloud of flies or how tangled the mat of maggots.
The whole barrel suffers.
I think we’re talking to the same thing. You will never have accountability regardless of the conduct or the relative numbers who are bad actors. So you need to reduce the total number of apples. Bad or good.
1. Why run if you are innocent? Why not stop when ordered to stop? Wouldn’t have been tased if he stopped....
2. Where was his wife to raise the child? Why did aunt have to raise him?
Seems to me he his actions gave the cops reason to suspect him of no good...just saying...
Sorry mate - but it doesn’t always work that way. I would have to say your EMS experience was limited.
A taser is not ‘deadly force’. Most city cops have to be tased once a year to qualify to use the device. Do you think that would happen if they were ‘deadly’?
There are a lot of poorly trained cops out there now - mainly because there a are lot of leftist, academic, idiot police chiefs. But let’s not all go knee jerk with every story. As conservatives we are supposed to analyze and evaluate.
“Wondering if these out-of-control cops are mostly younger men who grew up zapping and shooting people on video games.”
It’s called desensitization, a very well known psychological effect. No surprise here.
Tasers may not be CLASSIFIED as ‘deadly force,’ but it’s inarguable that they cause death after death after death. Big thread on FreeRepublic a few months ago about a kid tagger who ran from the cops — and got tased to death.
We can debate about how many deaths constitute ‘rare,’ but there is simply no debate that tasers are killing people in cities all over the US.
If someone dies, it’s deadly force.
Thanks.
It sure was a shock.
No pun intended.
Admittedly it was in the days before tasers. The options were more limited. I don’t recall a situation where large numbers of people weren’t able to hold the individual down. Usually the police and firefighters were pitching in a hand.
Different days.
“I felt threatened”®
Ironically, that’s the only requirement for the Maryland castle doctrine law.
That I “feel threatened”.
I’m thinking I might develop a very nervous disposition in the future.
Armed persons entering your domicile in the dead of night?
“I feel threatened” is an understatement.
(My Doberman controls me like a puppet.) I feel threatened.
(I forgot to feed the snakes this week.) I feel threatened.....
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