Caught On Tape: Cops Use Taser Gun On Man Trying To Get Home

Local10 ^ | 8/17/2004 | Local10

[nyconse]

I feel it would be the homeowners choice. Many of the problems folks have...is do to bureaucratic nonsense (permits etc). A man should be allowed to repair his own home if he chooses.

[William Terrell]

would you feel comfortable letting people go into a condemned building if you were the person in charge and you knew the building could fall at any time? would you feel that would be a wise choice?

Warn them. If someone falls victim, that's the results of his choice. People aren't children drooling on their bibs.

[monday]

"yes it does those who left abondoned thier property"

Next time you go on vacation I am going to call the police and tell them you have abandoned your property. You will have to go through legal channels to get it back when you return. Until then you will be denied access.

[monday]

"the man tried to run a police block"

You haven't even seen the video have you?

[monday]

"People aren't children drooling on their bibs."

Apparently MacDorcha is.

[Just another Joe]

Bump for a look after work

[Cogadh na Sith]

The homeowner should be let back into a disaster area once the area is deemed safe and not before.

The city has now decided that that area is now only safe for a shopping mall that pays more taxes than your piddly house....

[Cogadh na Sith]

if you willingly leave at the word of the government, you willingly come back at the word of the government.

That is certainly true.

Moral of the story: Keep your possessions and freedom--Don't leave.

[Just another Joe]

It is the police department responsibility because they are the organization that is primarily responsible for maintaining some semblence of order.

Once upon a time they were called "Peace Officers", now they are "Law Enforcement Officers".
Once upon a time a police officers duty was to keep the peace. Any ideas on what a police officers duty is now?

Once upon a time a free man could put himself in danger if that's what he wanted to do. The "Peace Officer" might warn the person that what he was contemplating was dangerous and that they were a moron but the "Peace Officer" wouldn't/couldn't stop the person from doing what he wanted that put him in danger.
Nowadays they can taser you to keep you from putting yourself in danger.

I kinda wish police officers would go back to being "Peace Officers".

[Quick1]

When you don't have a clue about this stuff, it's better just to stay quiet. It's not even close to abandonment.

[Semaphore Heathcliffe]

If a window falls on someone and slices him, so be it. That's part of the risks of self determination.

Absolutely. With the freedom to manage your own affairs comes the responsibility that you might sliced in two by a window pane. It really is that simple. Too many people wanting to save us from ourselves, "or else."

[Francis McClobber]

"Once upon a time a police officers duty was to keep the peace. Any ideas on what a police officers duty is now?"

My brother in law is a police officer in Florida. I have been on ride alongs with him and have seen what he, at least, does. It seems to me that his job is to try to keep the peace and keep the knuckleheads of the world from hurting both themselves and us.

Tough job indeed, especially with the arm chair law enforcement officials out there.

[TomServo]

Blood pressure ping!!

[Just another Joe]

My brother in law is a police officer in Florida. I have been on ride alongs with him and have seen what he, at least, does. It seems to me that his job is to try to keep the peace and keep the knuckleheads of the world from hurting both themselves and us.

My best to your BIL. He sounds like one of the good ones. You're right, it is a tough job and one that I wouldn't want nor have the temperament for although I did pull shore patrol in the USN.
IMO, it shouldn't be his job to keep the knuckleheads from hurting themselves.

[MacDorcha]

never saw that part. simple arguing changes it, yeah, thats too far.

[MacDorcha]

all for that!

[MacDorcha]

the military was more reffering to how a government trained keeper of the peace acts. be they on other lands in a war, or in the city fighting crime. they have similar rolls and the police model themselves after the military branches.

[Don Joe]

Blood pressure ping!!

Lucifer's Hammer counterping :(

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

never saw that part. simple arguing changes it, yeah, thats too far.

This was as reported to me by the MK morning show. He was outside of his car, so I doubt he was running the blockade.