On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 10:49:43 -0000, "Rob"
wrote:
>Mike wrote:
>|| Dead Paul wrote:
>||| What is with this government? They seem hell bent on .ing off
>||| society and the police as well.
>|||
>|||
>|||
>http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/letters/johann-hari-tasers-are-an-outrage-we-must-resist-1207401.html
>|||
>||| Daniel Sylvester can't forget the night the police fired 50,000
>||| volts of electricity into his skull. The 46-year-old grandfather
>||| owns his own security business, and he was recently walking down
>||| the street when a police van screeched up to him.
>|||
>||| He didn't know what they wanted, but obeyed when they told him to
>||| approach slowly. "I then had this incredible jolt of pain on the
>||| back of my head," he explains. The electricity made him spasm; as
>||| he fell to the ground, he felt his teeth scatter on the tarmac and
>||| his bowels open. "Then they shot me again in the head. I can't
>||| describe the pain." (Another victim says it is "like someone
>||| reached into my body to rip my muscles apart with a fork.") The
>||| police then saw he was not the person they were looking for, said
>||| he was free to go, and drove off.
>||
>|| So that's alright then.
>||
>|| Perhaps "Ret." can explain exactly what Mr Sylvester did wrong. As
>|| he often says, if suspects obey police instructions they are in no
>|| danger of being shot with a Taser.
>
>The Police really can't win can they? If they had shot him dead, the usual
>suspects on here would be baying for their blood - yet when they choose the
>non-lethal option they are *still* in the wrong. They will undoubtedly have
>been told, and believed, that he was a potential risk, and there will have
>been something in his behaviour that reinforced that belief, to force the
>officer to make the split-second decision to Taser him. Unless you were
>actually there you cannot know the full story, I refuse to accept the
>anti-police view that they go around Tasering people for fun.
>If there is anything untoward in this incident, I have no doubt that the
>independent Independent Police Complaints Commission (or as it happens in
>this case an independent colleague from his own force) will find it and act
>upon it, as indeed will the independent CPS.
" An independent colleague from his own force?" You are taking the
piss surely.
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