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Officials Speed Investigation Into Trooper's Behavior After Clip Appeared On YouTube

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by name_verify November 23, 2007 10:22 PM EST
ttinsly = transgender freak
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by anitaerrn November 23, 2007 10:22 PM EST
thoughtful78...I will guarantee that anyone that comes to being in danger everyday becomes hardened, more cynical, more cautious and yes more aggressive. Any profession that deals with the public that endangers your life because of these non law-biding citizens where you are spit upon, hit, threatened, and even shot at will make anyone make you look at people different. Don''t say they need to quit because it is these guys that have been there and done that will save your life one day.
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by aicohnx2 November 23, 2007 9:30 PM EST
The officer involved should be tasered in the same way & for the same duration as his victim.

And I think whether it would be "cruel & unusual" is quite irrelevant.

The punishment should fit the crime, as it should.

The motorist was walking away when tasered. It''s silly to claim that he was a risk to himself or others.

This officer needs to become intimately acquainted with the treatment he''s dishing out. Only then will these guys really THINK before shocking people.
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by magoo2u1 November 23, 2007 9:28 PM EST
"He got out of the car without being instructed and then failed to obey the officer"
What video did you watch? The officer instructed him not to get out of the car but to "hop out of the car". Was that why he was tasered ? He did not hop?. You are why eye witness testimony is unreliable. He was instructed to get out but you didn''t catch that on a video you can watch repeatedly.
Your stupid.
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by thoughtful78 November 23, 2007 9:15 PM EST
Well, there is another police officer that should feel the pinch, the pain of joblessness! After having a brother become an officer, I have come to realize it takes a VERY special mindset to become one. The problem is that EXTREMELY FEW of the existing officers have that mindset.
I watched a man go from being as nice a man as you''d ever want to meet, to a person that was aggressive, confrontational and egotistical. I am pleased he has since left the police.
I was on Jury Duty this year and when called before the judge, I raised my hand that I had a family member that was a part of law enforcement. His comment was that he understood I might be unfair to the accused. I corrected him immediately in that I wouldn''t trust an officer as far as I could throw them and the ones I know are liars, cheats, and certainly not someone with any intrinsic value at all. All they as a group care about is being right, even and especially when they are WRONG.
Until we screen them more carefully, we will continue to get what we pay for, not much!
This officer would be one of the good buddies that my brother used to have on the force. He is a terrific example of a poor excuse for an officer of the law and I say he should be fired immediately.
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by chuckanut November 23, 2007 8:51 PM EST
It is clear from the video the man repeatedly did not do as instructed and posed a potential threat. He got out of the car without being instructed and then failed to obey the officer. When he continued do move away from the car and raised his arm he gave the officer little choice. Law enforcement takes tremdous risks at every traffic stop. Given he had his infant and wife in the car he was an idiot in his actions. Evident by his interview he is very young and unbelievably naive and put his family through unecessary trauma.
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by gkc99 November 23, 2007 8:32 PM EST
CBS censors the word k-n-o-b?
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by jowand November 23, 2007 8:22 PM EST
The macho father (Cheney, Bush, and their lackeys above them) do whatever they like, and the Macho sheep, and the women experiencing the abused child syndrome, all think they are more free by being absolute mechanistic sheep. But your little tasers, "macho" attitudes, guns, weapons, and ******* can be used to make you feel more like real men and less like sheep. In reality though, what you fear the most is your the child inside yourself, your femininity, your humanity, and your demons...
Posted by ttinsly at 05:10 PM : Nov 23, 2007

You are the maximum size dipstick permissible without a special permit
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by zootallures2 November 23, 2007 8:07 PM EST
screen_ident must have had to go ''Pull It'' after that one.
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by gunownerdan November 23, 2007 8:04 PM EST
It often seems like only responsible civilians should be allowed to have guns and Tasers.
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by zootallures2 November 23, 2007 7:56 PM EST
zootallures2 Likes to dress up in police costume and dance to the Village People.

Posted by screen_ident at 04:48 PM : Nov 23, 2007

And you like to dress like the Indian and go bare back on a horse.


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by zootallures2 November 23, 2007 7:52 PM EST
zootallures2....You must have been
Posted by anitaerrn at 04:42 PM : Nov 23, 2007

Fantasizing again?
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by name_verify November 23, 2007 7:48 PM EST
zootallures2 Likes to dress up in police costume and dance to the Village People.
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by zootallures2 November 23, 2007 7:43 PM EST
ttinsly - Some freaks in San Francisco (Liberals) modify tazers to lower voltage and use them to get off.

Posted by screen_ident at 04:36 PM : Nov 23, 2007

But to you, they are the world''s greatest inventors. Of course neo-cons always know how to improve and cut costs, so if you see as many of them as there are cylinders on their cars moaning in the driveway with the sparkplug wires attached to their little wee wees....
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by anitaerrn November 23, 2007 7:42 PM EST
zootallures2....You must have been s**ual abused as a child and Im sorry. Maybe you should get some therapy to help you and therapy does help. I can''t do anything with how the abusers get treated. All I can say is what I would do if it happened to my children..
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by name_verify November 23, 2007 7:36 PM EST
ttinsly - Some freaks in San Francisco (Liberals) modify tazers to lower voltage and use them to get off.
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by zootallures2 November 23, 2007 7:35 PM EST
zootallures2....How am I a fraud and a liar? Im not even a cop!!! But I am a mother of 3 and I would have shot and killed anyone who had se*ual abused my children or even my grandchild. Don''''t get me started with this subject. And besides this has nothing to do with the story...

Posted by anitaerrn at 04:19 PM : Nov 23, 2007

Show us a video! You would, you would, you are this and that... let''s see action. We don''t. You beat, taser, and shoot everyone but them. No one would even care except you and your ilk. You cannot talk what is not reality and expect it to be anything but a lie and fraud. Go get some meds for your sadism.
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by l-f-o November 23, 2007 7:34 PM EST
Hello,
Wake up America you are living in a Fascist Evil, Lie based Police state..

Heck its almost illegal in the u.s. to travel now with all the jump-out squads and no fly lists (like the one senator Kennedy was on) ID check points and torture like the torture this man endured.

American national policy is to train police, air marshals etc to Terrorize, Torture, and murder. This is a national problem.

I read black water Security group the executive branch of our gov''s, black shirt fascists Thugs, are the ones that get the contract run the terror camps that train our police to torture, and terrorize Us the People
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by anitaerrn November 23, 2007 7:34 PM EST
MCVet...I can''t believe that your son is a cop by saying that. There is such things as esculation of force. That is different than excessive force. Excessive force would have been the officer pulling the subject out of the truck and throwing him down on the ground. The taser is an "Authorized" non lethal form of controlling a subject. If your son was a cop as you say he would have explained this to you.
Each traffic stop is different. You do not know who you are going to stop. There was no way knowing that if this driver was going to his vehicle to run away or go and get a gun. He refused to do what the officer told him to do as you watch the video he was told at least 5 times to turn around and put his hands behind his back.
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by name_verify November 23, 2007 7:30 PM EST
Maybe he got tazered because he had a Hillary/Barak bumper sticker. Even better....
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