A Guy Tased By Policeman

This is overuse of power. The taser is intended to be used for self defense only. I ddin't see any police in danger. So, he didn't listen to the police. Who does? Police are overpaid, underworked idoits.

with any reason.

we have no idea, based on this video, about what happened prior to the tazing. Typical TV - they like to show the cops looking bad and edit videos accordingly. That guy could easily have been threatening the cops. Also, the cop had the tazer out and pointed at the guy for a while before fireing, the guy did not back down at all. Maybe he was drunk, who knows. Maybe the cop WAS wrong, again, who knows. All I'm saying is that there is not eough video prior to this to say one way or the other who was wrong.

That 300 pound bully saw the tazer and challenged the law enforcement officer. He figured he could bully the cop and got tazed.

What do you do if you see someone pointing a weapon at you? You back off or run for cover. What do you do if you see a law enforcement officer with a weapon drawn? you back the heck down DOUBLE!! You get the drift? Dont cross a police line ever, dont interfere with an investigation, dont interfere with a police officers job to keep you away from an area that you are not supposed to trespass DUMMY!! and dont challenge a cop ever unless its in court with legal representation. Period!! Use your head ok?

One should question the nature of all authority and challange it. Some bad things happen, but we must accept they happen when we question authority, but we do not need to tollerate it.
I say challange cops when ever they try to tell you what to do and you disagree. The most effective police force is one which is allowed to police by the will of the people, not by force of the gun. You will be suprised by who your allies are sometimes. In my case, my snide remark got a cop pissed, but the judge put him in his place right away.

That's kind of what I was trying to say. We don't know what was happening or why the cop had his tazer out, but if a cop tells me to back off or whatever, I'm going to do it. It's just that simple. Anyone who does differently is asking for a problem, and this guy in the video found out what "a problem" means.

Maybe he was a old time bullie that used to punk him in school. Is it a crime to aurgue wit the cops? I think he has a real authority issue. Would it be justified if say the 300 ibs man that was tased was wanting to comfort his lil boy after being hit by a car?

If your as dumb as you sound, then you better hope to work for the government

thats true cause the guy just maybe that was one of his friends or family the cop shouldve just escorted him out of the police line

If you knew anything about police work you would know that is is almost every departments policy to use the taser before the officer even touches the suspect. I have been tazed, it hurts but has no long term effects. If the officer goes hands on and they begin fighting, the officer or suspect will probably get hurt, possibly with long term effects. Know your facts before you post ignorant things!

If you actually know anything about police policy, you would know that creats their own policy (sometimes unwritten) concerning the use of Tasers. Perhaps you should follow your own advice, there, Mr. I've Been Tased And It Felt Good.

what could be more fun than blasting someone and not killing them? (not that he has anything against real bullets either!) the worst he'll get under any circunstances is his wrists slapped and it was worth it. he'll go try it again next week. sort of reminds me of the people who go around crashing their cars on purpose just to try out the airbags. i don't know if that's still happening but i understand it was quite a lot a few years ago.

because people like you have been involved in circumstances that inflict negative perspectives on police. You hate cops because your friends "friend" had a run-in with the cops and he got lippy and was treated accordingly. Your dumbass never had the balls to get lippy, or you got pulled over for "no reason" and got a ticket. Be a kid, but grow up.

when you get tased.

hell yeah...fucken cops

are the minority, fuckstick!

....what's happened to your impeccable English? Don't you mean 'too bad'? Have you been indulging yourself again pRick, is this why we see the terrible lapse in orthography? Come on pRick, fight it, you know we're all behind you. One day you'll see the sky again, one day soon....keep faith dude....

When you are being repeatedly tased by the police, try to thrash around in an obedient and respectful manner. Otherwise you cause the poor officer undue concern over his own safety.

Verbal agression is all a cop need to keep a 300 pound bully in line. The cop had a choice to use his firearm but used non-lethal force to compensate for a bully jerk that used foul language and called him a SOB and told him to ef-u-see-kay himself, get it? VERBAL AGRESSION, remember when that chick cursed you out? You felt insulted right? VERBAL AGRESSION pal, what if you mother got talked to by the same 300 pound bully the same way the cop was talked to? Put the shoe on the other foot.

it's a partial clip. But here's an easy one for you - someone accosts you, you ask him to step back but he doesn't - do you - a) invite him for a cup of coffee b) ask someone to start filming and then take defensive measures c) call the cops and have them do it for you?

It sounds like you saw what happened prior to this clip, please explain it. I assume it was something horrible for the cop to go against a primary directive of crowd control, i.e. de-esculating a situation through non-violent crisis intervention. Obviously not used here. I like cops and respect their thankless job BUT when they do something wrong, we should not look the other way. ;]

Individual police officers are well protected against law suits by the department they work. If anything the guy might be able to win a case against the department but he would have to prove three things. 1) That type of procedure happens frequently 2) That the police department asks their officers to do those kinds of procedures 3) The person making the case has to prove to the court that he is actually at risk of being treated in the same manner in the future. This third one is the hardest to prove, that's why it is so hard to sue the government..

Point 1: Total Baloney Point 2: Might have a little merit Point 3: Total BS just like Point 1.
All the guy has to do is prove the officer responded with unnecessary force. From what we see in this short clip, it looks like the officer did respond with unnecessary force. The victim did not seem to show any signs of aggression. The problem is, we don't see the rest of what went on. The officer would need to be able to prove that he felt that he or others in the situation were in imminent danger.

The point I was trying to make is that INDIVIDUAL police officers, while on duty, are well protected by their department and by the LAW. The worst you can do to an individual police officer is get his ass fired.... if you want any kind of money for what happened to you, you have to go after the municipal, state, or federal government by proving the three things I listed before. You won't get a single dime from the police officers pocket NO MATTER WHAT YOU PROVE.

and it seems like you also don't know how hard it is to prove excessive force. Trust me it is far from easy. I mean come on.... we have all seen the videos where the victims or the victims families try to claim that an officer used excessive force. For example, the one video where the fat, black guy is laying on the ground, practically lifeless, and two cops beating the hell out of him. He was taken into custody and later died while in custody. Did the court find it to be excessive force????? No it was considered necessary because the black guy was still twitching on the ground. Did the court beleive he died from the beating??? No, he was fat and that is what killed him.

i live in greece altough i'm not greek and hell, the stories i could tell... once i was almost knocked down by a big bullying constantly yelling cop with machine gun, just because i put hands in my pockets during the ID check on the street; and let me tell u, it ain't a nice feeling having a huge, apparently passive aggressive dude yelling at you, waiting for a reason to hit you square in the face...
these guys should start caring less how they look in uniforms and more if they are mentally capable to handle the responsibility they have...
there certainly should be more professional personality tests during the interviews for this kind of career...

read his lips on the clip one more time. . . he says, "Officer I have to go back inside this house, I left pictures of some naked underage boys and your wife inside. I'll be back in a J III I II I I I IIII I I I IIII Ify"

look at the skinny ass cop who tased him, probs gets laughed at all the time

anybody laughing right now though.

The man said "Hello Officer, I am Rick from Silverton."

Another Rick from Somewhere critic! WTF is with that guy? Actually, Rick has never been to Silverton and the mayor sent him a letter of thanks for not ever coming! Keep up the vile hatred Mike and maybe ole Ricky boy will move to the Middle East!

You're gooooooood !

The conversation or the events leading up to the tasing?

Some people have a tendancy to jump before they know all of the facts.

Those weren't real. They were fake!