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Tennessee cops restrain man in a chair and taze him 40 times.
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Knew he wasn't a minority because it didn't say executed/killed.
And I don't see why people are cheering on a payday. Pigs are torturing people. And you want to pay via-your-taxes, the victim, to teach them a lesson?
50 coal miners can hijack democracy. How many white people will it take to demand police reform?
Kitschkraft
Member
Trump has recently come out in support of this type of treatment so it's no wonder they are emboldened.
Vicetrailia
Member
Disgusting. Fucking torture. Punish and enslave.
Bursts of drive stunning...
You can die from one, or not die from 40.
Agreed. I've never treated someone beyond being respectful, no matter what the crime was, or how they treated me.
When had to take a written test, and also got to "ride the lightning" to be certified to use the thing. 40+ burn marks means the trigger was pulled 40+ times in 40+ separate locations on the body. Wonder how long the stuns were for each time. Yikes. We did it for 5 seconds with the tazer shot at us, prongs stick in our bodies. We feel that shit go through us, and it's crazy. It definitely affects people differently.
This is my fav:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPENzKOmOl0
After being hit with it, sometimes I would think about not using it and choosing hand to hand instead. Probably not the best decision to make for safety, but dayum. It left a lasting impression with me
40 times tazed, you'd think they were trying to turn him black.
entremet
Member
That's negotiated in their union contracts to be fair.
As if those self tests are even remotely the same thing. I hate how that crap is used so people can argue that they know what it feels like.
It's like saying "I've tried a pot brownie once so I get a feeling for what it's like being addicted to Meth".
I had surgery done on my hand so I definitely know what being stabbed in a robbing feels like.
Dreams-Visions
Member
Fuck the police.
WaterAstro
Member
They can shut down Guantanamo Bay because they can just do it in America.
First, how was the tazer applied to you? How was your experience with the affects of the tazer different than mine?
Second, I never said anything about me being equated to what this man endured.
Not sure what the problem is here with my saying I've felt it (12 times btw) so I know this man was going through some shit.
I'll argue all day long I know how it feels because I felt it. What's your point?
SuperBanana
Banned
This is flat out torture. How the fuck are these people not arrested and in jail right now?
Kill Your Masters
Member
This has happened in November but yeah, this might happen more with a Russian Stooge in office. This is similar to how they get confessions in Russia.
ReplacementPelican
Member
I've seen this in movies and TV shows but it isn't actually true, is it?
Whatever happens to you in a completely safe and controlled environment, being done by people who do not wish to do you harm is completely and 100% different than the real life situation.
Just like surgery on my hand is in no way comparable to a guy stabbing someone.
It's not like they didn't try. The kid being alive after being tasered 40 times is nothing but luck, a taser is a potentially deadly weapon!
It's no surprise american cops behave like that, they are uneducated, receive basically no training and get away with everything.
I can't help but think about Police Academy, as a kid I thought it was hilarious and completely unrealistic but it seems like that's what's really happening in america, a bunch of unqualified people goes to the police academy, they get a few weeks of basic training and then they're cops ...
WTF?!
Yeah, you took my message completely off hand. From experiencing it in a controlled environment, I know what it feels like to be tazered. I know this guy had to be going through hell having it applied over and over again. I never said or even implied that I know what it's like to be tortured or tazered 40+ times.
Hope that helps.
How about detaining these employees without bail while the "investigation" is conducted? "Administrative leave" usually includes full pay with benefits. Must be nice getting a paid vacation even when you're caught on camera torturing someone. I can understand "administrative leave" pending the results of an investigation when only an accusation and no other evidence exists. Here we have video of inexcusable behaviour. But whatever. Carry on serving and protecting and stuff.
Anyone remember Matthew Ajibade? A Nigerian-American student who was beaten, restrained in a chair, tazed, and then left to die in his cell in 2015. All but one of the deputies involved were either given a free pass or a stern warning. The one deputy recieved a sentence of a month in jail, which was allowed to be served on weekends.
The Guardian: Georgia sheriff's deputies acquitted of manslaughter in Matthew Ajibade death
The Guardian: Ex-officer convicted in Matthew Ajibade case allowed to serve time on weekends
Since the victim in the OP didn't die, I'd expect even greater leniency.
sixteen-bit
Member
That's fucked up.
the insane sometimes done realize that they are indeed insane.
that or they have a code to not snitch on each other.
could be just peer pressure to not speak out, or could be that they're exposed to this type of practice too much to care.
mechashiva
Member
They rigged up an electric chair
No. It's an bastardization of a meme based loosely on a real story.... that happened in 1996. The New London, CT police force back then only interviewed applicants who scored between a 20 and a 27 on an aptitude test. They justified this policy by saying that those with higher IQs may become dissatisfied with policing and quit, after the city spent valuable tax dollars in training him.
Is this a thing that still happens? No idea, and a similar issue doesn't seem to have come up since then.