This is disturbing...FTP

[GhostTX]

Well...that doesn't help the cases for any good cops out there.

That was hard to watch. Even read.

No doubt it was retaliation:

... In the video, Runnels refers to Bryce’s August arrest, which was being contested by the Masters. Another officer put his head inside Bryce’s car and said, “It stinks bad in there” — like marijuana. It was clear this was not a random stop; Runnels knew exactly who Bryce was.

[CexMashean]

s and their families...

That's totally rational.

[Mach1]

Damn, that was really fucked up. And it was retaliation for that phone call to file a complaint.

I know all about civil rights, illegal searches, Miranda rights, blah, blah, blah. I may come off as a cop hating FTP type, but you can bet your ass when I get pulled over ALL of my paperwork is on order and I comply like a little bitch! You want to search my car, search me, go right ahead and I'll be going home with a ticket and my molested ass car/clothes...

Smart man...

[Rick Modena]

Damn, that was really fucked up. And it was retaliation for that phone call to file a complaint.

I know all about civil rights, illegal searches, Miranda rights, blah, blah, blah. I may come off as a cop hating FTP type, but you can bet your ass when I get pulled over ALL of my paperwork is on order and I comply like a little bitch! You want to search my car, search me, go right ahead and I'll be going home with a ticket and my molested ass car/clothes...

[davbrucas]

I wonder when the people are finally going to have enough of this bullshit? These guys need to have harsher sentences because of their power and our inability to fight back. 4 years is a joke. They need to be held financially liable as well, no more of the tax payer footing the bill.

When people start returning the favor to the pigs and their families...

[Craizie]

I wonder when the people are finally going to have enough of this bullshit? These guys need to have harsher sentences because of their power and our inability to fight back. 4 years is a joke. They need to be held financially liable as well, no more of the tax payer footing the bill.

I'd petition and riot, but I have to keep up with the Kardashians.

[Juiced4v]

Obviously white privilege was oorghat day.

Yeah I was about to say...what happen to that?

[JC316]

I wonder when the people are finally going to have enough of this bullshit? These guys need to have harsher sentences because of their power and our inability to fight back. 4 years is a joke. They need to be held financially liable as well, no more of the tax payer footing the bill.

[Juiced4v]

Damn!!

[line-em-up]

I would be making lot's of plans for his release.

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I wouldn't waste any time waiting on him. Instead, just kill his whole family. That would be much more pain for him to bear.

[Nash B.]

The problem isn't the Taser; it's not non-lethal but it generally causes less damage than a firearm. There are two problems IMO: inadequate education and understanding of the Taser and what it can do; and excessive force. If he hadn't had the Taser, I feel like he would've dragged him out of the car, thrown him on the ground, and beaten him while he was down.

[FunFordCobra]

Obviously white privilege was on E that day.

[Mach1]

[likeitfast55]

I just read the entire story behind this encounter. What a sickening display of power and harassment of one teenage boy in a rural town. It was hard to comprehend at times. As a kid growing up we were taught to look up to cops, well I guess those times are gone. I am without words, even the dad a lifelong cop had internal struggles with the idea that his son "did" do something that provoked the violence from the officer, until he saw the camera footage. . The family did not see the dash-cam until almost a year later....... wow.

https://theintercept.com/2016/06/07/tased-in-the-chest-for-23-seconds-dead-for-8-minutes-now-facing-a-lifetime-of-recovery/

[thomasblively]

If I'm understanding right, the ultimate goal of the article is to also blame the taser. Personally, I like the idea of tasers for law enforcement - the real problem here was a cop on some sort of power trip.

Maybe timers or something on the tasers, but something tells me LEOs would be against that with decent reasoning.

The taser should actually have a built in timer; upon deployment a 5 second timer begins(all Leo tasers that I have been trained on anyways). The only way to extend that time period is to hold the trigger down. At that point the cycle continues until released. The taser downloads and saves all deployments and the time that the cycle was active. That data can not be adjusted however their have been cases where the taser itself suffered "damages" that made the taser information not retrievable.