Posted on 06/29/2005 6:27:10 AM PDT by tuffydoodle
A better title might be "Crackhead stoned on crack dies from crack while in custody."
It's probably Meth.
If it's a "Under the influence of substance other than alcohol", that means the officers could smell it.. My bet is Meth, and yes, that'll kill ya!
If she was really hammered, the Tazer put her over the top. The situation has cleaned itself.
Yeah, if she was doing drugs, then she deserved to die....
Suicide.
Druggie Dies! News at 11 !!
On drugs or not she went to the cop for help because she thought she was in danger, real or imagined doesn't matter IMO.Arresting her because he saw a crack pipe she felt betrayed evidently.IMO arresting drug addicts doesn't help them, just let them be and they will eventually overdose anyway. I am tired of taxpayer dollars funding dopeheads by giving them three meals and a cot while in jail.
Some years ago, I knew someone who assaulted an officer in a manner which involved a transmission of potentially infected blood. He "died in the best of health," as they say, the very next day. Ever since, I've tended to think it is bad luck to make a cop worry about AIDS.
I agree
If you can't take the ZAP, don't pull any crap.
Semper Fi
Cleaning the shallow end of the pool.
A better title might be "Crackhead stoned on crack dies from crack while in custody."
How about this one.
"Chicken ass cops cant control stoner so resorts to legal torture resulting in death”
Or maybe.
“Girly man cant handle the job, resorts to legal torture, 1 dead.”
But my favorite is this.
Candy ass cop who flunked high school wrestling, couldn’t handle a combative arrest, resorted to legal torture, 1 dead, faked autopsy report coming shortly.
But then the due process clause is as dead as the rest of the constitution so who cares. Lacking any training in how to physically control combative people it’s much easier to just zap ‘em to death. Why wait for a judge and jury to even decide if they are stoned let alone deserving of death by torture.
Am I the only one who remembers a time when fighting a cop resulted in a night stick in the ribs and a few bruises but we all healed up after the fact?
(2) Being tasered is not "torture" anymore than your nostalgic nightsticking was torture.
(3) Cops are pretty good at determining if someone is on crack or not.
(4) Statistically speaking, one is much more likely to die from a crack habit than from a Tasering. Teh cause of death is not yet determined, but the facts will probably show that if she was not in the habit of smoking crack she'd be alive today.
Police stations had a mark on the wall at 6ft
If you stood there and did not measure up...you simply could not be a cop..
Nowadays affirmative action, equal rights, sexual preference are the new order of who gets in and who does not..
It's bascially a quality control issue...and the government forcing departments to take candidates it probably would rather not...at least until the time when the new order takes over management...and then tends to make sure only it's like kind gets hired..
The superior is cast aside for the inferior...it's all PC now.
Like putting women in combat
imo
She was handcuffed. I don't get how he couldn't control her.
Good thing he has a taser I guess. Maybe he would have shot her. Before tasers, what would this cop have done?
Nearly every law enforcement office across the nation has adopted a policy of not arresting illegal aliens when they seek help (even if there is evidence of illegal activity), because they do not want the illegal community to fear calling them for protection. Yet, if you are an American citizen, you are not given this same courtesy.
Why do illegal aliens have a right to protection even if they are criminals, but Americans do not?
A cry for help should be treated the same whether it be in English or Spanish. If illegal aliens are given protection from prosecution when seeking help through law enforcement, so should Americans citizens!
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