03.30.07
Cop Killers
No, not in the Ice-T way, but the way it happens most in this country: Cops Taser, then kill at point-blank range an unarmed civilian. You tell me how someone who’s been tasered three times and is lying on the ground in his own vomit poses an ‘imminent threat’ to nearby officers. Disgusting.
A representative of the police department also had the temerity to say,
“In a sense, [he threatened the officers] when he did not comply with their commands.”
Passive resistance - or non-resistance, as in this case - is not threatening. A person lying on the ground is not threatening. I don’t know what kind of meatheaded idiots they’ve got for cops these days, but they seem to believe that civilian failure to comply suddenly invests them with the authority to shoot them. Welcome to the future.
Bruce Goodchild said,
March 31, 2007 at 9:06 am
The increasing use of these things is alarming at
best (and now they’re pushing nice colorful ones
for sale to the public)…
Joe Blubaugh said,
April 1, 2007 at 9:38 am
Taser use by cops doesn’t bother me, per se - I think that they would be a great replacement for guns because of their much lower lethality rate. The scary shit is that they start using them as long-range billy clubs.
The really scary part is just the overbearing belief by many cops that because you are suspected of a crime, they have a right to use excessive force against you.