A Florida police officer, 267-pound Trooper Daniel Cole, was recently cleared of any wrongdoing by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
OP, what is it with you and all these anti-cop threads? You do realize that corruption exists in every vocation out there? OK, we get it. There are bad cops out there. However, the constant posting of every bad cop news bit unfairly demonizes policemen. You grossly misrepresent the ratio of good vs bad, and by doing this, you are being dishonest.
I suppose I should give you a break though b/c as I think about it, most threads are about the negative that one political side does as a means to highlight the vast moral and intellectual superiority of belonging to the other party.
267 lbs - he didn't want to run after her.
That's the issue. Complete impunity.
Why is it that when a person is reported to be a victim, they are a girl or a boy? Most people stop thinking of a person as a boy or girl when they hit the teen years, at the 20+ mark they are considered a man or woman. There was no "girl" tasered, it was a full grown woman who SHOULD know better. Now should the cop have tased her in the first place, while technically he probably should not have, I really dont give a shit. If she is that stupid to attempt to run after being cuffed......... But of course she was not at fault for anything, she was just a little girl.
And a capital "G" girl no less.
I bet she will not run from the cops again.
I bet she will not run from the cops again.
I bet she will not run from the cops again.
This. It sucks with what happened for her but why is it ok for people to run from the cops? It's funny how in this day of age it's become OK to do stupid things - i.e. run from the cops and yet somehow nobody wants to own up that doing something stupid could have severe repercussions.
What people are basically saying is that if a 15 year old gets shot breaking into somebody's house it's the owners fault for "shooting a kid" rather than the kid's fault for doing something incredibly risky.
If he would have hand-cuffed her people would also be complaining. I guess he should have used a billy club and beat her to death if she didn't stop. She was running from the cops. Probably some drug addict who would have sliced her momma with a razor to get high. So he could have run after her and tackled her on the cement? Maybe only a few ribs would be broken. All these criminals think they can just run away from cops. By chasing after them cops often get hurt. At this point she might also have had some kind of concealed weapon also. Why should the cops be nice when you run away? If the person runs, they should shoot first and ask questions later.
If the person runs, they should shoot first and ask questions later.
Tasers are often abused and used as deadly force. Just like when they tase someone over and over again, until they die on the spot. They are too cowardly to shoot a cuffed suspect, at least most of the time, so they just repeatedly tase and electrocute them to death, instead.
It's high time the supreme court weighed in on tasers and finally made them all illegal to use as lethal weapons of torture and death the way many fat and lazy cops are abusing them.
Logic fail.
Just because it isn't OK to run from the police doesn't mean it is OK to taser (or shoot) people in the back for no real reason.
To make it simple for you, two wrongs don't make a right. It isn't that complicated an idea.
Seriously, you are screwed in the head. Facts on taser deaths have been quoted before, hundreds of times now. Your stupid overuse of this picture just confirms your troll status here for all to see, yet again.
Doing something dangerous invites consequences was my only point. And yes the girl holds some responsibility here unlike what many are saying.
I'm not sure if I agree or disagree on the taser being a huge issue. I don't know enough about how dangerous they truly are - my understanding for the most part was that they are usually only dangerous to people with heart conditions.
That said I hold the girl at fault here for her actions. She'd be alive if she didn't run and didn't invite/create a dangerous situation.