Levi Mohney
Right on both counts. You have to realize that when you soak yourself in gasoline, the odds of having a good outcome are not high.
The “victim’s” last words before he was tased were probably something like “go ahead cop, I dare ya”...
Your answer is totally out of touch with today's economy. Considering current prices, I'd award the father the full replacement cost on a gallon of gas - $3.50 if they settle now, perhaps as much as $4 if the litigation drags on until summer.
It’s too bad the policeman didn’t use his nightstick to beat this guy senseless just to protect him from himself.
He was a threat to EVERYBODY precisely because he was soaked in gasoline! I don't think "leave the scene" was an option for the cop. Of course, this might be one set of circumstances where "shoot him in the leg" was a better choice than using the taser. But the gas-soaked guy was just one ignition source away from disaster anyway.
In this case, he’s in it for the Mohney, isn’t he? ... try the veal
Authorized Deadly Taser Force in effect at all times by Nationaly dumbed-down police forces. I feel safer every day.
Come to think of it, I can't think of any.
The cop set the kid on fire right after he shot the 16 y/o family beagle.
I have always found that the sound of a stun gun firing will scare off most yapping dogs. It is interesting that cops routinely shoot dogs instead of using the noise of taser or using pepper spray.
In fact, why didn’t the cop pepper spray this kid instead of setting him on fire?
Maybe it is because you only have to score a 53% on the entrance exam to get into cop school now as per Holder’s Justice dept. I would think guessing would get you around 40% even if you could not read.
I guess you could say that he made a fuel of himself.
:-P
You play with fire.....
A wood shampoo was called for here.
Suicide by cop. Very sad, but in the throes of an active police scene we now expect the cop to stop and debate whether he should use a taser? NOW, a cop will think of that....but then? I give him the benefit of the doubt.
Build a man a fire and he’s warm for a night, but set a man on fire and he’s warm for the rest of his life.
Sorry, not gonna agree with that one.
Yep the guy was an idiot for soaking himself in gas... the trooper was just as big if not more of an idiot for tazing him knowing he was soaked in gas. What the officer did was no different than if he had lit and tossed a match at the guy.
Yes, maybe in the heat of the moment he didn’t think, or maybe the trooper truly is a complete fool who didn’t think about the fact tazers will throw a spark.. but either way, end of the day there is no difference.
Yes, the victim was an idiot to douse himself in gas... but that doesn’t mean someone else deciding to ignite it has no culpability. I think its a pretty open and shut case, the officer is going to have a hard time arguing he was not trained in the use of the weapon, or that he could not know the weapon would throw a spark. He may have slept through that part of his training, but I am sure that the mandatory training he got with the weapon covered those facts.