Derrick MacThomas
November 21st, 2007, 07:00 PM
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This is another splendid example of why police pigs cannot be trusted with Tasers.
One day this copper, or one like him, is going to do this to the wrong person.
If he had pointed the Tazer at me I would have found out what was faster: his reaction time or my karate.
Most of the members of my dojo would be able to take that Tazer off him, shove it up his arse and keep pulling the trigger until the battery went flat.
What a fun way to spend the afternoon.
Police all around the world have shown that they cannot be trusted with Tazers. They become lazy and begin to rely on the Tazer. They use it in situations for which it was not intended.
This was such a case.
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22802146-5001028,00.html
Trigger-happy cop tasers driver
November 22, 2007 11:20am
INVESTIGATIONS into a US state trooper who tasered a motorist for refusing to sign a speeding ticket have widened after a video of the incident was posted on YouTube.
The Utah Highway Patrol said the video, taken from Trooper John Gardner's parol car, showed him tasering Jared Massey when he started walking away after refusing to sign the ticket, Associated Press reported.
The video was posted on YouTube after it was released to Mr Massey under a public records request.
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"We definitely have received a lot of feedback on it - calls and emails," Utah Patrol spokesman Trooper Cameron Roden said.
Trooper Roden told Associated Press that he didn't know what was "happening in Trooper Gardner's mind".
"We have an internal investigation going on ... with it coming out on YouTube, we have expedited the investigation".
He said signing a speeding ticket was not an admission of guilt.
Troopers can use a Taser if someone is a threat to themselves, or others, and other means of control are unreasonable, he said.
This is another splendid example of why police pigs cannot be trusted with Tasers.
One day this copper, or one like him, is going to do this to the wrong person.
If he had pointed the Tazer at me I would have found out what was faster: his reaction time or my karate.
Most of the members of my dojo would be able to take that Tazer off him, shove it up his arse and keep pulling the trigger until the battery went flat.
What a fun way to spend the afternoon.
Police all around the world have shown that they cannot be trusted with Tazers. They become lazy and begin to rely on the Tazer. They use it in situations for which it was not intended.
This was such a case.
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22802146-5001028,00.html
Trigger-happy cop tasers driver
November 22, 2007 11:20am
INVESTIGATIONS into a US state trooper who tasered a motorist for refusing to sign a speeding ticket have widened after a video of the incident was posted on YouTube.
The Utah Highway Patrol said the video, taken from Trooper John Gardner's parol car, showed him tasering Jared Massey when he started walking away after refusing to sign the ticket, Associated Press reported.
The video was posted on YouTube after it was released to Mr Massey under a public records request.
Watch the video:
"We definitely have received a lot of feedback on it - calls and emails," Utah Patrol spokesman Trooper Cameron Roden said.
Trooper Roden told Associated Press that he didn't know what was "happening in Trooper Gardner's mind".
"We have an internal investigation going on ... with it coming out on YouTube, we have expedited the investigation".
He said signing a speeding ticket was not an admission of guilt.
Troopers can use a Taser if someone is a threat to themselves, or others, and other means of control are unreasonable, he said.