Indiana man dies after being tased by Police

[acreature]

I guess my question is...

If there were no such things as tasers, and it had escalated (sp) to that level of force, what would have been used in place of that taser? Or am I naive in thinking that the taser is a peg on the totem pole?

Hands, OC, ASP, PR24, Flashlights.

Our UOF Policy has Taser right in line with OC and before Impact weapons.

[TheQuietCorner]

I posted this on another forum in response. There were two articles There was a link to an article indicating that they should have found out his medical history first. I think it said a lawsuit is pending.


Yeah, there's a good idea.

"Now, I'm about to shoot two sharp barbs into your skin and shock the #%@& out of you so I can safely take you into custody, but before I do, I need you to answer a few questions. Do you take any medications? What do you take? *Looking them up in the Taser pharmacological safety manual*. Nope, this indicates that there is a .02% chance of your heart fluttering a little if I shock you with this, and department guidlines state that I can't shock if there's more than a .005% chance. Would you please put these handcuffs on instead?"

Next time, hit him with a baton a few times. Or better, get in a knock down drag out with a psych patient. Then when an officer get's smashed a few times, you'd be justified to use some REALLY harmful force levels. So if the psych ward employees know better how to properly secure that guy, why didn't they do it and just not call the cops? If you don't know what you're doing, don't whine when someone else who knows does their job and it doesn't work out exactly as we would like.