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    Justice Rains From My ButtAndy Cush
    5/20/16 11:52am

    The police are not meant to help you. Don’t call the police when you need help, especially if you aren’t white. They’re mostly poorly trained power-tripping maniacs.

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      RedJustice Rains From My Butt
      5/20/16 11:56am

      Mr. Sherman was white.

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      senorserviceJustice Rains From My Butt
      5/20/16 11:59am

      treat a cop like any other stranger with a gun. keep you interactions brief, exercise extreme caution. #ACAB

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    crayoneaterAndy Cush
    5/20/16 11:56am

    Tasering an agitated person seems about as helpful as me telling my wife to “calm down” when she’s angry.

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      iHateHumanity...and lost burner passwordscrayoneater
      5/20/16 12:05pm

      Well, tasering the agitated person may cause them to pass out and not die - which if you’re a cop counts as helpful and doesnt really generate much extra paperwork. Telling your wife to calm down will NEVER result in a positive outcome or less work of any nature, (paper or otherwise). So while a good analogy...I’d choose the taser.

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      ARP2crayoneater
      5/20/16 12:05pm

      “You’re acting crazy” or “You’re being irrational” tends to work very well too.

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    Dave Andy Cush
    5/20/16 11:55am

    Dude is barefoot, in handcuffs and in the back of the patrol car with a cage—at what point was he a threat to himself or others? Back off, let him calm down a little, then have two officers take his feet, one take his shoulders and get some leg restraints on him to stop the kicking. Fuck, do cops today even get a training or do they just give them lethal toys and tell them to stop crime?

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      ╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and BokeDave
      5/20/16 11:58am

      He wasn’t in a police car, but all other points apply.

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      GoatherderDave
      5/20/16 12:02pm

      I think he was in his parents car...but yes , why are they treating him as acriminal

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    Sara-Slaughter607Andy Cush
    5/20/16 11:57am

    Christ. When are we going to learn that it’s not okay to beat the shit out of/taze/kill a person having a psychotic episode? We have fucking tranquilizer guns... easiest way to get a person strapped in an ambulance without combat/killing him. Come on guys. Think outside the box.

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      senorserviceSara-Slaughter607
      5/20/16 11:59am

      but then HERO COPS won’t get to feel special

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      Zsa Zsa GaborgSara-Slaughter607
      5/20/16 12:09pm

      That would kill WAY more people than tasers. Nobody’s allergic to electricity. Plus anesthetics can kill through an overdose - you trust the cops who literally tased someone repeatedly until he died to administer no more than the recommended amount of sedative to a struggling suspect?

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    Johnny ChundersAndy Cush
    5/20/16 11:50am

    See? He died from “trigger pulls of an electronic control device.” Perfectly natural.

    You BLM Clinton liberals want to make a big deal about nothing.

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      destor23Johnny Chunders
      5/20/16 11:53am

      Hey, electronic control devices don’t kill people...

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      ╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and BokeJohnny Chunders
      5/20/16 11:55am

      Pretty sure he just Jedied out of his body like Obi-Wan.

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    burps25Andy Cush
    5/20/16 11:51am

    All the more reason to legalize/decriminalize pot. This synthetic/bath salts bullshit can lead to some very bad physical reactions, only made worse by calling in the police who apparently are completely unable to cope with people in altered mental states (including mental illness)

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      Oak4hillburps25
      5/20/16 11:57am

      This has nothing to with illegal drugs. The police were called because the dude was biting his girlfriend in the backseat. I'm thinking he was uncontrollable since his last statements was O.k. I'm dead. I quit. Which means he was putting up a pretty good fight. Remember that guy in Miami I think that was on bath salts and ate a homeless man? Drugs are no joke.

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      Michael Zaiteburps25
      5/20/16 11:58am

      They could also pull this garbage off the market too.

      Everyone KNOWS what it’s used for. It’s a fucking joke.

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    HangnailsAndy Cush
    5/20/16 11:54am

    I guess the takeaway is that you should get your psychotic loved ones to a hospital and pray they haven’t hired off duty cops as security.

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      DolemiteHangnails
      5/20/16 12:13pm

      Sounds like you are better off just trying to knock them out with a baseball bat yourself than calling the cops.

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      MannorixDolemite
      5/20/16 12:19pm

      Pretty much.

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    ARP2Andy Cush
    5/20/16 12:04pm

    Cops need to stop using less lethal tools as a compliance tool, and use them for what (I hope) they were intended for: Where lethal force isn’t necessary, but brawling with a suspect is dangerous.

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      OhioGrownARP2
      5/20/16 12:17pm

      Then what is the answer? How do you stop someone that is fighting you? A time out? I’m not saying the heavy use of tazing is appropriate in this case (since its obvious the drug induces psychotic episode was minimizing the effect).

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      ARP2OhioGrown
      5/20/16 12:38pm

      If someone is coming at you, you should be able to taze them. I’m talking about a tazer purely as a compliance device.

      I get it, three steps later they could attack you, but wait until that’s about to happen. I don’t punch everyone that gets within a few feet of me “just to be safe.”

      Similarly, cops should have the training and judgement to identify non-compliance v. attack. If they don’t, why are they cops?

      There will always be grey areas, but too often cops are tazing, shooting, etc. based on a plausible scenario, rather than what’s really probable or imminent.

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    gingerhammeredAndy Cush
    5/20/16 12:57pm

    Cop Who Just Electrocuted an Unarmed Handcuffed Guy: “Dude, I’m fucking fired.”

    Fellow Boys in Blue: “Nah, man. You’re fine.”

    Fire these motherfuckers into the Sun.

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      BlastProcessinggingerhammered
      5/20/16 1:14pm

      That his first reaction to KILLING SOMEONE is to worry about his job is really the high water mark of personal ethics.

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      gingerhammeredBlastProcessing
      5/20/16 2:02pm

      The thought of criminal prosecution or civil liability is simply beyond comprehension. (Or, as you rightly note, basic human decency and compassion.)

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    MattAndy Cush
    5/20/16 12:02pm

    Correct me if I’m wrong, but i thought pretty much all modern police cruisers were made to safely contain a suspect, so they could not get out or get into the front, at least not easily. Once they had him in the back of the cruiser, could they have not just closed the damn door?

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