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Which means the man was not going to drive a car.    THINK.  Someone having seizures is not physically going to get back into a car and drive it.  It can not be done while in the state of seizure.

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Police Tase Driver Suffering From Diabetic Shock -

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ORIGINAL: WyldHrt

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Which means the man was not going to drive a car.    THINK.  Someone having seizures is not physically going to get back into a car and drive it.  It can not be done while in the state of seizure.

Where the hell did that come from?? Nothing I read indicated that the man had a seizure.

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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.

If I had the condition- I would wear some kind of ID tag.    

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You still haven't answered my question, Hunk.

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The cop might have offered first aid.

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!

Which means the man was not going to drive a car.    THINK.  Someone having seizures is not physically going to get back into a car and drive it.  It can not be done while in the state of seizure.

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Police Tase Driver Suffering From Diabetic Shock

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Every officer that carries a taser must be taser'ed as part of their training.

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Someone having seizures is not physically going to get back into a car and drive it.  It can not be done while in the state of seizure.

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ORIGINAL: LinnaeaBorealis

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.

If I had the condition- I would wear some kind of ID tag.    

The point was that he didn't. So that's how he got treated until someone could figure out what was wrong with him. Just like the guy in this scenario.