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Tennessee Police Officers Tase Restrained Teenager in Custody

countryboy said:
Okay, but what SHOULD they have done?
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Probably called a doctor to sedate the guy if he's truly that bad. Tasing a guy 20 times - if there are really 40 burn marks on him that's at least 20 tasings - is excessive and potentially lethal. Killing someone because he's a danger to himself is no bargain.

Oh and they should probably get new restraint chairs cause their apparently suck.
 
Bodhisattva said:
He looks jacked out of his mind... head rolling around, eyes in a daze...
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Oh...but these guys....the ones that would piss themselves if they ever had to actually deal with people like that...THEY know better. THEY would give them a hug, and a bunny, and they would call them George. And the poor widdle man would be nice and cooperative and would love them and they would have s'mores.

I don't know...when you have seen a team have to literally break a mans jaw to get him to stop biting a female guard that he has already chomped down on to the bone, you get a sense for what some of those people are capable of and videos like that have a little different perspective.


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Gaius46 said:
Probably called a doctor to sedate the guy if he's truly that bad. Tasing a guy 20 times - if there are really 40 burn marks on him that's at least 20 tasings - is excessive and potentially lethal. Killing someone because he's a danger to himself is no bargain.

Oh and they should probably get new restraint chairs cause their apparently suck.
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You can't sedate someone on drugs. It could kill them.

Agree on the chair. I mean, seriously? I was actually getting pissed watching them mess with that wrist restraint.
 
countryboy said:
Okay, but what SHOULD they have done?
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They could quite easily put him in a cell facing a wall, and have one of them with paperwork to do to sit there glancing at him occasionally. And if I was one of them, I'd have suggested getting him mentally checked out because he really didn't seem all there. Why torture when you can sedate?

They held him steady and repeatedly electrocuted him when it wasn't necessary. The fact that he may be an utter **** does not justify or excuse that. I really do worry about the seeming notion that if Bob thinks Joe is a jerk, Bob is cool with government agents torturing Joe - in this country.


I know there's a big pro-police presence on certain sides, but really, police ARE government agents.
 
VanceMack said:
Oh...but these guys....the ones that would piss themselves if they ever had to actually deal with people like that...THEY know better. THEY would give them a hug, and a bunny, and they would call them George. And the poor widdle man would be nice and cooperative and would love them and they would have s'mores.

I don't know...when you have seen a team have to literally break a mans jaw to get him to stop biting a female guard that he has already chomped down on to the bone, you get a sense for what some of those people are capable of and videos like that have a little different perspective.


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The closest I can claim is to have been an inner city gang infest high school teacher... the brutality, the insane people... jeez.

I am glad that those days are long gone... one year was one year too many.
 
Mr Person said:
They could quite easily put him in a cell facing a wall, and have one of them with paperwork to do to sit there glancing at him occasionally. And if I was one of them, I'd have suggested getting him mentally checked out because he really didn't seem all there. Why torture when you can sedate?

They held him steady and repeatedly electrocuted him when it wasn't necessary. The fact that he may be an utter **** does not justify or excuse that. I really do worry about the seeming notion that if Bob thinks Joe is a jerk, Bob is cool with government agents torturing Joe - in this country.


I know there's a big pro-police presence on certain sides, but really, police ARE government agents.
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He appeared to be on something. You cannot sedate a person on drugs.

Sit him facing the wall? Not a serious answer. They had to get him restrained so he couldn't injure himself or someone else.
 
countryboy said:
He appeared to be on something. You cannot sedate a person on drugs.

Sit him facing the wall? Not a serious answer. They had to get him restrained so he couldn't injure himself or someone else.
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100% false.

Sedation is quite literally the treatment for people brought in who are freaking out on a non-depressant drug.







Not that it wasn't already, but your hand is revealed.
 
Mr Person said:
100% false.

Sedation is quite literally the treatment for people brought in who are freaking out on a non-depressant drug.







Not that it wasn't already, but your hand is revealed.
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Um, excuse me, are you a doctor? Were you directly involved with this case? Do you have even the slightest clue what this kid may or may not have been hopped up on? Yeah, I didn't think so.
 
Slingshot Bob said:
I believe I am the only one here to ever be in one of those chairs (20 years ago) Defer to my expertise! :)
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That is one experience I missed out on. Not that I'm complaining.
 
The dept. should have written policy for using the taser. Was it followed?
I read that before being placed him in the chair he was banging his head against the wall
in the cell. So he was a danger to himself and it's very apparent he was not following
guidance given by the officers. If he had managed to get loose the situation could of
been much worst. The restraint chair being used looked looked a cheap version. Not
very effect it restraining a person.
 
The police involved in this incident should be removed from active duty pending hearings and trials for breaking state and federal laws. If found guilty of torture they should face up to 20 years of hard-time without the possibility of parole and fines which leave them destitute. Had the prisoner died they should have faced a capital crime indictment of torture and murder in the first degree.

If found innocent they should still be discharged from the Tennessee police force they are members of and be black-balled from ever working as cops or corresctional officers due to the collective bad judgement of doing what they did. Tasing someone 20-40 times in the course of several hours is inexcusable and profoundly unproffesional. These are bad cops and whether innocent or guilty of crimes, they have got to go.

When agents of the state begin to torture citizens, even drug-crazed, scum-bag citizens, the agents are breaking the very fundamental social contract between the state and the citizenry and thus are imperilling peace, order and good governance. These officers should face the same penalties as hoodlums who capture and torture police would face. If they don't, then social order breaks down and it will eventually become open season on police and other law enforcement agents. Bye-bye society and hello unaccountable police-state. The police are there to serve and protect the community and not to occupy their communities and abuse citizens in their custody. Throw the book at these bad cops and if their union fights decertify the brotherhood.

Evilroddy.
 
I think a good training exercise for those police would be to set each one of them into the restraining chair & tase each one of them about 40 times

maybe someone may learn something from the exercise ..........
 
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