Wheelchair-Bound Woman Dies After Being Shocked With Taser 10 Times

[bell110]

I'm a concierge/security dude and that's not relevant to anything.
I'd feel the same if I was a 7/11 nightclerk or a ballerina.

Also, lol, you're talking to the wrong dude saying "we're not living in a movie."
Yeah, no s***!
I can name you so many stories here locally in Seattle where cops were caught doing "movie"-like stuff, just in the past few years.

A big one recently was a cop who threatened to kill his wife if she ever left him.
He was using his willing BUDDIES, on the force, to stalk his wife and actually go to her door making threats to intimidate her.

The guy finally ended up shooting her and then himself and all of his "buddies" were charged for the harrassment of the woman.
That was just in Gig Harbor.
The woman told her family, and the guy's supervisor, "He is going to kill me.", and he did, but the damn cops didn't do a thing about it and restraining order?!? LOL, it was his own BUDDIES that would have to enforce it, and guess what, that woman, as a matter of record, complained, and complained, and complained that he was dangerous and violating the order, and his BUDDIES would not enforce it.

It would take me too long to dig up all the stories, but trust me, there're plenty of abuses going on that sound like they're from "movies", in REAL LIFE.

Just a few weeks ago, front page on the Seattle Times, a big bust, cops who werecatching fellow cops driving (swerving) way above the legal limit and letting them go.

LOL, I think you're the one who has one foot too far into an idealized fantasy of the reality of Police work, because we know for a fact that they abuse their power, somewhere, every single day.
That's the norm.

I had a point to make with asking you about your job, but I forgot what it was. Something like if a customer told you how to do your job and complained and didn't know what she was talking about. I don't.

That cop killing his wife is another exemption. Most cops are not sitting around plotting the best way to get away with murder.

And I think we have differing view on what constitutes abusing police power. Letting your fellow cop drive drunk is not in my view an abuse of power. Police let non police off for drunk driving also.

I think we're getting way off topic, but I want to tell you about another incident of people overreacting because of what a cop did.

Caught on video, a cop was trying to subdue a person and put him in cuffs. The man was resisting and punched the cop in the nuts. The cop through anger and/or natural reaction, punched the guy in the face. Of course, the cop was white and the guy was black so the usual people, ACLU, NAACP, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, make a big media uproar and call for the cops dismissal. Now, don't you think that's a tad unfair for the cop? Yes, cops aren't supposed to close fist punch some one, but the guy got hit in the balls.

And of course, Jackson and Sharpton didn't say anything about the guy resisting arrest or selling drugs which was what I think he was being arrested for.

 

[chaseter]

She had weapons and was trying to kill people. Whoever thinks it is wrong can go try to reason with a schizo holding knives. It was justifiable IMO. If she was still a threat then sufficient tasering unfortunately killed her...no ones fault.

 

[huskerwebhead]

Geez...what's with all these taser stories all of a sudden. The story is pretty short so not many details. But I'd have to assume there was a better way to deal with this particular situation. I could have seen tasing once...but nine times?

 

[Ghostvirus]

She had weapons and was trying to kill people. Whoever thinks it is wrong can go try to reason with a schizo holding knives. It was justifiable IMO. If she was still a threat then sufficient tasering unfortunately killed her...no ones fault.

But 9 more times!? Usually once you get person that is handicapped restrained with cuffs. You don't much have to worry after that. Just throw them in the car, & go.

 

[chaseter]

But 9 more times!? Usually once you get person that is handicapped restrained with cuffs. You don't much have to worry after that. Just throw them in the car, & go.

If she never let go of the weapon, then they will continue tasering. I want to see cops taser a guy holding an automatic weapon...good times.

 

[S_H_F_4839]

The same cop tazered the lady in the wheel-chair NINE times, even though she'd already been disarmed. Seems pretty clear that he was in the wrong on this one.

jag

http://www.local6.com/news/14147512/detail.html

I don't think this article is reliable.

the part about 9 times for 160 seconds and the fact that it lasted a full two minutes are the parts I call into question.

the taser we use here in arkansas at the department I work at is the X26 it fires on two settings five seconds and ten seconds. It is our policy that we use the five second shot when we are incapacitating someone. well it doesn't really add up. 9 times 5 is 45 so that means if he hit her nine times at the five second mark it should not have lasted longer than 45 seconds and thats pulling the trigger right after the 5 second cycle shuts off. well if he was using a 10 second cycle it still would not have added up to more than 90 seconds. I think the news is just trying to stretch it make it look worse that it is. I am aware I am drawing some broad conclusions like there are several models and the like. But the other one I am familiar with is the M26 which lasts the same amount of time but is hotter meaning it leaves a slightly bigger mark. Assuming that they were on the ten second setting and going one after the other it could not have lasted more than 90 seconds which if I figured the math right is a minute and a half. The article states 160 which would have been 2 minutes and 20 seconds. Those that say he could have stopped tasing her for a couple of seconds in between each shot need to ask if he stopped why did he start back did she grab for the weapon again? Did she pull some other weapon from the chair? Questions of that nature. I mean any cop that has been hit by the thing or any law enforcement officer will tell you it hurts and if you can avoid risking getting another dose you wont get trigger happy with it.

 

[Kritish]

People seem really fragile.
Dying from playing a video game for 3 days...dying from getting tasered 10 times.
Lightweights.

Whatever happened to chainsmoking all day then going on a 10 mile hike then getting both legs blown off by a landmine and dragging yourself and your wounded buddy through a swamp to the med chopper?

I know, people are such *****es these days.

Hahaha

One shock went into her, killing her. The other nine went into the battery on her wheelchair. The officers in the house that attempted to halt the superchaged chair's progess were mowed down. One suffered a broken arm, two ribs, and a ruptured spleen. The other jumped out a window.

A hot pursuit ensured as the superchaged wheelchair sped on down the Interstate, causing at least seven pileups. Surprisngly, the woman's body was squeeky clean, with only a few bug splatters coating her glasses. A juevenile hippopotamus from a circus truck involved in the pileup halted the progress of the supercharged wheel chair.

t:t:t:

 

[Ghostvirus]

If she never let go of the weapon, then they will continue tasering. I want to see cops taser a guy holding an automatic weapon...good times.

Well good times, if you aren't in that general area.

 

[Sam Fisher]

Speaking of taser happy cops...

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