Dont Tase Me Bro! Dont Tase Me!

Woman argues with Trooper, refuses to cooperate, repeatedly threatens “this is a lawsuit,” then guess what happens?

Dude thinks he can walk 10 feet after being tased.

He’s wrong of course:

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Outside a Maryland high school gym last Wednesday, sophomore Brandon Bennett got into a small altercation with a fellow student. It was after a basketball game and tempers were high, but the the two were separated by officials and students without much problem.

Only then did things get really violent.

According to Julius Bennett, the student’s father, Deputy Anthony Lenzi fired a Taser at his son after being told twice by a senior officer it was not necessary:

“He left two puncture wounds just above his heart in his chest,” says Bennett. “And [Brandon] said to me that he was in quite a bit of pain because he could feel electric shocks going throughout his whole body.”

The father says he has written proof Sgt. Mathew Kempel twice ordered Lenzi to holster the weapon, but Lenzi fired anyway, hitting the teen in the chest:

“Brandon did absolutely nothing wrong,” says Bennett, “and there was no reason to use that type of force on my son.”

The Queen Anne’s County Sheriff’s Office says Lenzi has been reassigned to internal duties while authorities investigate the allegations. Bennett is hoping fair punishment is given.

“I will not be satisfied until I know that Deputy Lenzi will be in a position to never to this to anyone else’s child ever again.”

SOURCE:

• RawStory.com

A man that drove aggressively on the I-15 freeway wound up being shot with a taser by a Nevada highway patrol trooper.

Eyewitnesses said the man was swerving in and out of traffic on the freeway and hit another vehicle.

The man finally got out of his car at the Charleston/I-15 off-ramp.

Eyewitnesses say he was screaming at people around him and even physically attacked one of them.

Things escalated when the highway patrol showed up.

People who work nearby said a NHP trooper was trying to stop a man they said was acting wild and screaming. The entire incident was caught on traffic cam.

The man was pacing back and forth yelling at the trooper who kept telling him to stop. Finally, the man appears to taunt the trooper and takes off his hat and shirt.

At that point the trooper, who still had no backup, shot the man with a taser, causing him to fall face first in to the street. Eyewitnesses say they thought the man was over agitated and seemed to be intoxicated.

“Drugs. That’s what it looks like because the guy — he never stopped screaming after he came too.

After the man was hit by the Taser, the trooper was able to put him into handcuffs.

Eyewitnesses say once the shock wore off, the man continued screaming.

NHP said there is no indication in the man’s vehicle that he was under the influence of drugs or alcohol, but they will be looking into that possibility.

Nevada highway patrol says that the trooper acted accordingly and that are happy to see that non-lethal force was able to bring this situation to end — and that it did not escalate to the point where someone’s life was put in danger.

Here’s the video:

SOURCE:

• Liveleak.com

Now you too can go around like all the brutal, small-weenied cops everywhere and taser peeps by buying one of those $10 disposable cameras and re-rigging the wires:

NEW ORLEANS, LA – A bitter battle is brewing over New Orleans’ public housing projects.

On Thursday the protests turned violent as the city council prepared to vote to tear down the old projects.

As protesters broke through locked gates outside of City Hall, New Orleans police pepper sprayed and tasered the crowd, trying to hold them back as they attempted to get into city council chambers already filled to capacity:

Inside tempers also boiled over as the council prepared to vote to tear down four of the city’s public housing projects and replace them with mixed income housing.

Opponents claim it is a racist move that will continue to leave the city’s poor without homes.

Those in favor of the tear-down, including the city’s mayor and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, say the massive housing projects failed New Orleans well before Katrina and that new housing will give the city a fresh start.

“We cannot go back. Katrina washed it away we have to move forward,” said the Louisiana Finance Housing Agency’s Wayne Woods.

Protesters promise to continue the fight to stop the demolition.

SOURCE:

• WCBD

PHOENIX, AZ – A man trying to set a building on fire was taken to the hospital Friday morning after a fall from the roof.

For hours, police and firefighters tried to get the suspect off a roof near 48th Street and Guadalupe in Phoenix.
Police say the man broke into an apartment, climbed on the roof, and tried to start a fire.

After police negotiations failed, firefighters tried using a water hose to spray him down.

Then police shot him with rubber bullets, then…just watch this amazing video:

Eventually, cops used a taser on him, causing him to fall off the roof and onto a balcony.

Officers say he then jumped two stories to the ground below.

He was taken to the hospital.

Police are working to find out who the man is and why he started the chaos.

SOURCE:

• AZCentral.com

DAYTONA BEACH, FL — A police officer used a stun gun to subdue a woman who yelled at her in a crowded Best Buy electronics store, and prosecutors are reviewing whether to pursue charges against the customer (Editor’s Note: a customer yells at a rent-a-cop, gets tasered, and she’s the one who’s in trouble?).

While Elizabeth Beeland was trying to purchase a CD player at a Best Buy on Nov. 26, she stepped outside to talk on her phone, leaving her credit card. Concerned about the sudden exit, a store clerk suspected Beeland was using a stolen card and called over a police officer.

Officer Claudia Wright wrote in a police report that when she approached, Beeland became “verbally profane, abusive, loud and irate.” She said she warned Beeland to calm down or face arrest.

In a video, Beeland is seen backing away and avoiding Wright, then crumpling to the ground after being hit with the Taser:

Wright was not disciplined, and police Chief Mike Chitwood defended her actions. Beeland was refusing an officer’s orders, and using a Taser avoided use of other weapons, he said.

Police verified Beeland, 35, was using her own credit card, but she was arrested on two misdemeanors, disorderly conduct and resisting a police officer without violence. She has since pleaded not guilty, and state prosecutors are reviewing whether to pursue the case.

Beeland’s attorney William Chanfrau Jr. said he is reviewing the encounter and declined further comment.

The Daytona Beach News-Journal reported Friday that Daytona Beach police used a Taser 10 times in November, but Beeland was the only person stunned who wasn’t acting violently or fleeing.

Amnesty International and American Civil Liberties Union representatives criticized the use of a Taser on Beeland, saying yelling at an officer is not illegal and other methods could have been used.

SOURCE:

• Associated Press

AUSTIN, TX – A man filed suit against the City of Austin in federal court, saying a police officer violated his civil rights when using a Taser on him at a traffic stop.

Video from a dashboard camera shows Cpl. Thomas O’Connor using his Taser on Eugene Snelling in November:

Then Acting Police Chief Cathy Ellison suspended O’Connor for three days for the incident.

Chief Art Acevedo later used the video in training as an example of what officers should not do.

City officials said they received the lawsuit late in the afternoon and want to review it fully before responding to it.

SOURCE:

• KXAN.com

This is an amazing display of why cops should be forced to go through “patience training.”

This officer tasers a guy just 46 seconds after approaching him.

Watch the video and you be the judge – did the cop taser him too soon?