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ORIGINAL: Toppingfrmbottom

I see nothing wrong with how it went down. You have no way of knowing why he was so erratic, crazy hopped up on dope or something, or having a medical issue. I am just glad he wasn't hurt.

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ORIGINAL: Icarys

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I see nothing wrong with how it went down. You have no way of knowing why he was so erratic, crazy hopped up on dope or something, or having a medical issue. I am just glad he wasn't hurt.

So what should we do? Shock anyone and everyone that's acting a little funny?

There was a story on the news a while back where a guy who was at a mental health clinic was tasered to death cause the cops thought he was too erratic.

My brother is a Detective for a Sheriff department in Florida and has often commented that it was more or less joked about as funny to taser someone. It was the norm as far as he could tell.

Acting erratic doesn't necessarily mean aggressiveness. And for all we know..Their idea of aggressiveness might have been raising your voice. Then you have the possibility of a cop lying to cover his ass..not like that last thing happens really.

At least they didn't kill him.

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"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." — Robert A. Heinlein

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Specialization is for insects."
— Robert A. Heinlein

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So because there are those of us with a differing opinion than yours, pahunk, we 'should be tased' ?

A sad commentary on humanity.

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^  Still it is no excuse.    None. 

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just because it is inconvenient to ascertain that a disability rendered the situation.

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My Uncle was epileptic, but refused to take medications to control his seizures & he refused to wear an id band or any information at all on his person that identified him as an epileptic & subject to Grand Mal seizures. So one day, decades ago, he has a seizure in downtown Seattle near Skid Row. The cops get called & he ends up in the drunk tank. Because what else were they supposed to think?

My family all got up in arms because he was treated like a "common drunk", of which there are quite a few in the family. I said if he didn't want to be treated like that until they could figure out what was really going on with him, perhaps he should keep something on him that told people that he was an epileptic. But he was ashamed of his physical ailment, so he wouldn't ever tell anyone. He'd rather sit overnight in the drunk tank than tell.

If I ended up acting that erratically & a police officer was afraid of what I might be going to do next, I would expect the police officer to use whatever force is necessary. So, yeah, if it was me, it would be ok for the cop to tase me.

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The cop might have offered first aid.

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ORIGINAL: WyldHrt

You still haven't answered my question, Hunk.

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The cop might have offered first aid.

[sm=rofl.gif][sm=rofl.gif][sm=rofl.gif]and likely gotten the first aid kit shoved up his ass.
Hunky, please perform a behindular craniectomy on yourself and listen to what people are telling you.

You have obviously never had to deal with a situation like this, but some of us have. People in the condition this man was in do not know that they are having a medical emergency and can be both unreasonable and violent. It is not their fault, but many an EMT has gone off shift with a black eye or worse after dealing with a diabetic emergency, and that is often when we know that the person is diabetic!