UCLA Officers Use Taser on ID-less Student

[Prudence]

How much physical evidence is left when someone gets "tased"? If officers use undue force by whacking someone with a nightstick repeatedly, there is presumeably bruising, bleeding, and related evidence. Is tasing seen as an action without repercussion, even if it was clearly unwarranted? In other words, is there no real penalty for poor judgment such that it's just as easy to tase first and ask questions later?

[Bornieo: Fully Loaded]

Originally Posted by Prudence

How much physical evidence is left when someone gets "tased"? If officers use undue force by whacking someone with a nightstick repeatedly, there is presumeably bruising, bleeding, and related evidence. Is tasing seen as an action without repercussion, even if it was clearly unwarranted? In other words, is there no real penalty for poor judgment such that it's just as easy to tase first and ask questions later?

I'd rather they "tase" than whack someone anyday. From what I heard on the radio today, tasing just stuns them for a short period and the pain is temporaty.

Plus listening to some of the reaction, I wonder if this guy was Irish or another nationality, would the reactions be the same?

[DisneyFan25863]

Originally Posted by Bornieo: Fully Loaded

I'd rather they "tase" than whack someone anyday. From what I heard on the radio today, tasing just stuns them for a short period and the pain is temporaty.

Plus listening to some of the reaction, I wonder if this guy was Irish or another nationality, would the reactions be the same?

Unless, of course, they have a pacemaker or dozens of other medical issues, in which case a Taser is lethal.

Did I mention that before they tased him, he screamed out he had a medical issue? Even if he was lying, tasing him after he stated that the Taser could be lethal to him is just the same as shooting him with a gun.

[Prudence]

Originally Posted by Bornieo: Fully Loaded

I'd rather they "tase" than whack someone anyday. From what I heard on the radio today, tasing just stuns them for a short period and the pain is temporaty.

That is precisely the attitude I was concerned about. There's this idea that tasing is essentially harmless so it just doesn't matter.

[Bornieo: Fully Loaded]

Originally Posted by Prudence

That is precisely the attitude I was concerned about. There's this idea that tasing is essentially harmless so it just doesn't matter.

Well, I"m not saying everyone should go out and get one and start taizing everyone. If it's them or you and Law Inforcement is involved, I'd rather have someone knocked to ground than beaten to a pulp. In actuality I'd rather have the idiot who was smug enough to NOT show his ID or leave when he was asked to, to comply like everyone else is expected to. When will that end? You get pulled over and the cops ask for your Drivers Licences and you refuse? If I was the Cop or SEcurity Guard I'd rather have the guy dropped, then either someone killed, shot or if the person has other motives, myself blown up. So in a perfect world all would be well.

That said, I'm not excusing the % of the cops that do this for sport or unjustified. From what I read, I'd rather have the guy tazed, take outside, rather than anything the guy "Might" have been doing in a closed area. What if this had been an area of an airport? Or a library at the local Jr.High.

I"M not excusing the problem, just simply saying it's a bit broader than just some moron not "showing his ID."

[Alex]

Not that it makes it ok in this incident, but someday I'd like to get tased just to know what it feels like.

Seriously.

[Bornieo: Fully Loaded]

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

Not that it makes it ok in this incident, but someday I'd like to get tased just to know what it feels like.

Seriously.

AH, you live near UCLA?

Hey, I've seen news reporters getting tazed for a story. Maybe contact your local Police Academy and see if you can volunteer!!

[€uroMeinke]

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

Not that it makes it ok in this incident, but someday I'd like to get tased just to know what it feels like.

Seriously.

A friend of a friend met up with a prostitute in a foriegn country and asked to try some thing different. At the moment of climax, she applied jumper cables attatched to a car battery, to our aquaintenses testicles. He chalked this up as easily one of the best sexual experiences he had ever had. Sorry, I felt I had to share.

[Bornieo: Fully Loaded]

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

A friend of a friend met up with a prostitute in a foriegn country and asked to try some thing different. At the moment of climax, she applied jumper cables attatched to a car battery, to our aquaintenses testicles. He chalked this up as easily one of the best sexual experiences he had ever had. Sorry, I felt I had to share.

Also known as "Great Balls of Fire"

[Motorboat Cruiser]

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

A friend of a friend met up with a prostitute in a foriegn country and asked to try some thing different. At the moment of climax, she applied jumper cables attatched to a car battery, to our aquaintenses testicles. He chalked this up as easily one of the best sexual experiences he had ever had. Sorry, I felt I had to share.

Is this a hint for a Xmas present? The gift that keeps on giving.