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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There was no way that man was coherent enough to get in the car and go peacefully. It will be interesting to see what his background is[/quote]

Drugs I bet[/quote]
Duh...he was rambling about needing detox.  
Doesn't take a genius to figure out that he was in the midst of some drug induced psychosis, but that doesn't warrant walking up and tasing him without provocation.  
If he was white you know damn well that cop would have made at least some effort to talk to guy and calm him down and work with the EMT's to get him some help.[/quote]

No, I don't think so. White or not, he was determined to get an outcome in a timely manner. Other officers had already been trying to reason the suspect into the ambulance. How long do you want to tie up the police and paramedics with a situation like this? Hours? [/quote]

So now we're just tasing people to save police officers' time? Yes, I would rather see a police officer tied up for hours than see a person whose only crime was being high or mentally ill in public subjected to cruel and dangerous use of force. That's not even a hard question.[/quote]

And the EMTs? How long do they to spend doing this? When another call comes in? They just abandon this person in the street? If you think defunding police will give them even more time to deal with problems, you are seriously confused. Public budgets are already stretched thin unless you happen to be a public school.[/quote]

Don't subject someone to violence because dealing with them is taking a long time. Period. This isn't a controversial or complicated moral question.[/quote]

Are you willing to pay for the overtime and additional officers? That guy wasn't going to get into the van. [/quote]
Isn’t it more costly paying for  comfortable paying for the overtime and additional officers to replace all the other cops who responded to the incident who now have been suspended pending further criminal and administrative investigations thanks to Sergeant Dumbass?  Isn’t the likely civil suit to come more costly?[/quote]

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