UCLA student stunned by Taser plans suit (now racial profiling)

LA Times ^ | 11/16/06 | Stuart Silverstein, Times Staff Writer

[dennisw]

Goodbye idiot. Your idiot "sensitivity" will be your undoing

[Binstence]

Oh, well. Nice to see so many of you are Judge, jury and executioner all wrapped up into one. These are the good old days. You just must be living wrong if you don't think so.

[Sprite518]

Don't waste your time with this guy. He is a freakin moron. He thinks its OK to tell COPs to F-Off, and resist. Unbelievable...

[Redcloak]

They should have used the real guns on him. (...and then stune his beeber!)

[Binstence]

Strong and bitter words indicate a lack of education.

[Sprite518]

OK well maybe you are anarchist. Nevertheless, you have no logical thought process. It is one of a 10 year old. No offense, but the truth must be said.

[FreedomPoster]

>>How about calling for back up?

What's the back up going to do? The officer had back up. Should they have applied batons?

In the story you cited, it seems entirely possible that the death occurred due to the physical restraint process and the fact that the guy was drugged up, not due to the tazer.

[IrishCatholic]

Still without merit. Didn't you read the part about how tasers electronically record their use? This is for liability reasons. They document how they are used! So your cover up theory doesn't hold water.
As for the kindly cop, if you are taking your ideas of what a cop should be from a Frank Capra movie then you really aren't in touch with reality.
No cop is assaulting the constitution. There are bad cops just like there are bad dentists. Every profession has problems. Everyone. From the Presidency down to dog catchers there are decent and there are scum.
Try this. Go on a ride along program with your local police department. Take a citizens academy. Then, and only then, try to talk about a real world situation and not the cotton candy theoretical of dealing with a hostile crowd with an Oprah encounter session.
Your new post had no merit.
Of the deaths, any force can cause death. Physical restraint can cause people on drugs to die just from hyperthermia. The goal is compliance and reduced officer and offender injury. Not torture. Or do you think cities like lawsuits?

[FreedomPoster]

>>In short, I don't CAIR.

Ooh, I like that! I'll use that in the future.

[Eclectica]

Nick Mamino Jr. — the 41-year-old son of a former Collinsville police chief — died in April after Collinsville police shot him with a stun gun...A coroner's jury later ruled Mamino died accidentally when he was hog-tied by police trying to arrest him while he was high on cocaine.

If your point was that Tasers are too deadly, I'd point out the huge numbers of dead cocaine users who get Tasered. Some coincidence, huh?

BTW: There are approximately an equal number of gang members to police officers in the US.

[FreedomPoster]

Godwin invoked.

Binstence loses.

[Sprite518]

LOL! Thanks!

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

How about 156 deaths??? Freak.

The only "freak" behavior I've seen in this thread, thus far, is the citing of well-known victimology pimps Amnesty International as a (putatively) "reliable" source for your claims. (Claims which, I might add, are promptly countered immediately thereafter, when it is pointed out that the overheated claim of "156 deaths" is based upon incidents where "there has been no such official conclusion." Try reading your own article prior to posting, next time; you'll most likely save yourself considerable embarassment, that way.

Not that I take any such "citations" seriously to begin with, when trolled out onto the stage sans the name of their (ostensible) source; the author(s) of same; and a link allowing me to read the original source material (assuming it actually exists) for myself.

Try again. L-I-N-K, this time. And without the grade school sniveling and name-calling, if you think you're up to it.

[L.N. Smithee]

I believe that you will live to see the increase in police brutality and pray to God it does not happen to you.

The best defense against police brutality is compliance. Nobody has ever been hit with a taser because they were following orders.

Regardless of whether it's a police officer or a bank robber, the guy with the loaded weapon makes the rules. Resist at your peril.

[endthematrix]

"Binstence loses"

Lost it alright.

" How about calling for back up? How about negotiating? Do you think a little civility from our public servants is too much to ask for?"

[Lead Moderator]

Cool it.

[dennisw]

It was an very reasonable request by the campus police that this Iranian proceeded to make into a huge issue. I blame him 100%. He's proven what a con man he is by getting a lawyer to sue and get money for him

WHEN HE STARTED IT ALL!!!
UNBELIEVABLE!

As far as idiot poster Bistence - FLUSH!

[dennisw]

Executioner???? LOL Mighty dramatic of you. See ya. I'm gone from this thread.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Executioner???? LOL Mighty dramatic of you.

"I... I think he's on to us, Margaret..."

:)

[FreedomPoster]

Yeah? See my #67.

I'd also suggest that civility is a two-way street, and that this punk likely started the downward trend in this encounter.