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Ohio man who was shot in eye with Taser at traffic stop is suing police
Cleveland.com (The Plain Dealer) ^
| May 11, 2014
| Associated Press
Posted on 05/13/2014 9:36:00 PM PDT by deks
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OUCH!!! - That's got to hurt.
I-71 in Fayette County. . .between Columbus and Cincinnati, Ohio.
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posted on
05/13/2014 9:36:01 PM PDT
by
deks
To: deks
Sounds like the injured passenger did nothing to deserve the treatment he received. Hope he wins the lawsuit.
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posted on
05/13/2014 9:40:28 PM PDT
by
babygene
( .)
To: deks
Thugcop. Should be in prison.
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posted on
05/13/2014 9:42:34 PM PDT
by
piytar
(The predator-class is furious that their prey are shooting back.)
To: deks; null and void
All CONFRONTATION, all the time.
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posted on
05/13/2014 9:42:37 PM PDT
by
kiryandil
(turning Americans into felons, one obnoxious drunk at a time (Zero Tolerance!!!))
To: deks
The new military occupation force.
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posted on
05/13/2014 9:46:24 PM PDT
by
Darteaus94025
(Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
To: deks
As near as I can tell, the Fayette county tax payers can pay for Deputy Sines' vacation and Mr. Kelly's damages.
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posted on
05/13/2014 9:48:48 PM PDT
by
RC one
(Militarized law enforcement is just a nice way of saying martial law enforcement.)
To: everyone
Dashcam video of the incident at link below.
Complaint says man shot in eye with Taser
Matthew David Kelly, 24, of Harrison, sued on April 2 in U.S. District Court in Cincinnati, alleging near total loss of vision in his right eye after he was shot twice by Deputy Clinton Sines. He asked for compensatory damages of $5 million on each of four counts.
Sheriffs office. Show us your hands. I know youre asleep, now get out, as he grabbed the back of Kellys sweatshirt and began to try to pull him out of the truck.
Sines gave a couple of hard tugs, apparently unaware that the wordless and apparently confused Kelly was being held by his seat belt.
Ill taze you, Sines told Kelly as he continued to yank Kelly from the truck. When Sines grip slipped, Kelly rose and Sines fired his Taser. The Taser prong struck Kelly in the right eye.
Click for >>The Columbus Dispatch article
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posted on
05/13/2014 9:53:11 PM PDT
by
deks
(Sent from my BlackBerry Q10)
To: deks
Transcript from video. . .
“Show us your hands. Show us your hands. . . . I know you’re asleep, now get out.”
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posted on
05/13/2014 9:56:33 PM PDT
by
deks
(Sent from my BlackBerry Q10)
To: deks
I’m guessing that our local “Cops can do no wrong” Freepers are asleep?
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posted on
05/13/2014 10:00:29 PM PDT
by
tpmintx
(Gun free zones are hunting preserves for unarmed people.)
To: deks
This, my friends, is what torture really looks like. This was a clumsy and brutal action. I’m surprised it’s taken this long to come to trial. Have these two cops been working since then? Hopefully, they were at least suspended for a while.
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posted on
05/13/2014 10:03:53 PM PDT
by
null and void
(When was the last time you heard anyone say: "It's a free country"?)
To: deks
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posted on
05/13/2014 10:06:16 PM PDT
by
Talisker
(One who commands, must obey.)
To: deks
Idiot cop had no reason to fire the taser at guy.
Hope the guy wins the lawsuit big time.
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posted on
05/13/2014 10:11:20 PM PDT
by
The Cajun
(tea party!!!, Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Louie Gohmert......Nuff said.)
To: deks
You can bet your sweet bippy he wouldn’t have done that to an illegal alien, a Muzzie, an “openly gay” homosexual football player or an LA Clipper.
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posted on
05/13/2014 10:12:00 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Obama's smidgens are coming home to roost.)
To: Anybody
When the officer grabbed the half-asleep passenger by the jacket and yanked him halfway out of the car, did he think...why is he not falling out of the car onto the ground? (because his seat belt was on)
The Solution: Let go, and then about two seconds later Taser the man in the eye.
The dazed man, stunned and in pain, doesn't move very much. But a few seconds later he puts his hands over his head.
The officer screams, "Get on the ground. Get on the ground. Now! I'll do it again. Get on the ground." Then he sent "a second surge of high voltage electricity into Mr. Kelly's eye."
Video with Columbus Dispatch article
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posted on
05/13/2014 10:15:28 PM PDT
by
deks
(Sent from my BlackBerry Q10)
Drunks can be stupid, dangerous, and difficult to manage.
At least it wasn’t led that passed through the “sleepy” passenger’s eye socket.
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posted on
05/13/2014 10:16:47 PM PDT
by
Gene Eric
(Don't be a statist!)
To: RC one
As near as I can tell, the Fayette county tax payers can pay for Deputy Sines' vacation and Mr. Kelly's damages. And the more they pay, the more circumspect cops will have to be about abusing people.
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posted on
05/13/2014 10:18:18 PM PDT
by
Mr Ramsbotham
(Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
At least it wasn’t lead ...
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posted on
05/13/2014 10:20:37 PM PDT
by
Gene Eric
(Don't be a statist!)
To: Gene Eric
Drunks can be stupid, dangerous, and difficult to manage. Except, by looking at the vid, he wasn't being stupid, dangerous, and difficult to manage.
Stupid cop just getting his rocks off because he knew he could.
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posted on
05/13/2014 10:22:48 PM PDT
by
The Cajun
(tea party!!!, Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Louie Gohmert......Nuff said.)
To: Gene Eric
Yes. . .past articles on fatal incidents have led some to comment, “Where was the taser. Why didn’t they just use the taser”?
Clicking Keyword taser above will bring up several articles where the taser itself was fatal.
But I’m glad for him that it was just the taser in the eye and not the gun. The Deputy Sheriff Clinton Sines was apparently not a model officer. . .
“...Sines disciplinary record, which includes a 1999 letter for unprofessional conduct, two reprimands in 2010 for neglect of duty and a 2011 action in which Sines was sued for violating the constitutional rights of an 18-year-old woman during a traffic stop.”
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posted on
05/13/2014 10:33:28 PM PDT
by
deks
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