"I said PUT YOUR HANDS IN THE AIR! < shock! zap! stun! >"
Posted on 11/19/2008 12:57:40 PM PST by fishhound
WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) - A North Carolina sheriff's official has apologized for plunging a funeral into chaos when undercover agents tried to arrest the dead man's son—and used a Taser on him in the process.
It happened as the coffin was being loaded into a hearse. The officers planned to quietly arrest pallbearer Gladwyn Taft Russ III, The Star-News of Wilmington reported Wednesday.
Relatives said two deputies dressed in coats and ties grabbed Russ and kneed him in his back before Tasering him. One deputy's gun fell out of its holster.
Russ' sister, Taffy Gause, said when she got out of the car a deputy "was waving a gun at me and my mom and yelling to get back or he was going to shoot." She said some mourners went home instead of going to the cemetery.
Russ, 42, had failed to surrender after being charged with threatening his ex-wife who lives in another state, officials said. Following his father's death Nov. 11, Russ agreed to surrender after the funeral.
When deputies approached Russ during the Saturday funeral, he "went wild" and spat on the officers, said New Hanover County sheriff's chief deputy Ed McMahon.
McMahon said the officers should have waited until after the cemetery service.
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You know what they say: One man’s “quiet arrest” is another man’s police brutality...
They were in a hurry to get their donuts.
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Ed McMahon?
I was wondering what he’s been up to since Carson went off the air.
Right here in North Carolina, too.
I am so proud.
Hope you funeral is as fun.
It’s like a Monty Python skit come to life.
If they’re trying to arrest a guy DURING the funeral, when he did say he’d go in after it was over, I think it’s perfectly fine if the guy goes nuts.
The deceased was his father.
"I said PUT YOUR HANDS IN THE AIR! < shock! zap! stun! >"
Barney Fife dropped his gun? ROFL!!!!
A lot of wacked out policemen in this country/world.
I guess he was thinking that beating two cops would be as easy as beating a woman.
“One deputy’s gun fell out of its holster.”
BARNEY!!!
Well at least they didn’t turn it into a high speed herse chase or para military raid on a funerl home. Can we give ‘em that?
They certainly have a way with names in that family ... Taffy Gause, Gladwyn Taft Russ? And to top it all off, they got Ed McMahon up in there, lol.
“There he is, Barney. Taze ‘em.”
Well, electricity is still a novelty for ya'll.
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