:Angry rant: police brutality pisses me off

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A man was shown apparently being shot twice with a Taser gun by police in Nottingham in a mobile phone video taken by a bystander and posted on YouTube yesterday.
The footage has prompted calls from human rights groups for the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) to investigate the incident and review the use of Taser guns by police."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2...man-with-taser

This kind of thing pisses me off to no end.

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Nottinghamshire police told the Press Association that officers were trying to arrest the 40-year-old man after they were called out by door staff at one of the city's nightspots; he was later charged on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm.

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Police did that because the guy was resisting the arrest... Anyone with half a brain would stop resisting when they threaten to use a fucking taser gun. Not only that, he was on pressed with charges of bodily harm. I really can't understand how this is serious police brutality, the only reason this is an issue is because someone recorded it.

Well when your being fucking tazered you are going to squirm.
Seriously, you ever had a serious electrical shock?
The fact they kept tazering him even though he was shaking due to the shocks and then being punched in the head is what pisses me off.

You only need to shoot someone once with a taser and then handcuff them, but we obviously don't know what went on. The function of a taser is to disable someone, which is obviously what they did. You can't read an article and be an expert.

edit: I don't know if you understand how a taser works. You don't hold the trigger and keep on discharing into them, it's for a set amount of time. The guy was obviously resisting arrest, after the first tase, so they did it again.

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Originally Posted by =sw=warlord

Well when your being fucking tazered you are going to squirm.
Seriously, you ever had a serious electrical shock?

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Ok then, have you? Don't describe to me something like that, IF you have no clue what it's like either. He resisted arrest, which is why he was hit twice. If the taser didn't knock him out, nor the punches, that's why they did it again. Nothing like that should happen to the majority of goers here. The police wouldn't just do that out of the blue mate.

Also masters is right, we don't know what went on before the guy started recording, he mighta hit someone or something.

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Originally Posted by Rosco

Ok then, have you? Don't describe to me something like that, IF you have no clue what it's like either. He resisted arrest, which is why he was hit twice. If the taser didn't knock him out, nor the punches, that's why they did it again. Nothing that should happen to the majority of goers here. The police wouldn't just do that out of the blue mate.

Also masters is right, we don't know what went on before the guy started recording, he mighta hit someone or something.

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Yes i have had serious electrical shocks before, a few times involving 240 mains voltage due to a project i was doing at college a while back.
I could get more sources on this if you wish but from all the coverage i have seen implied the man was pretty much disabled after the first shock and considering the current is rather high im inclined to say the tazer would easily cause all the muscles to contract which would be why his legs were bent each time after being shocked.
[voltages for these things range from 25kv to 500kv but its the current that counts, 30mA will kill a full grown adult where as 8-15mA will cause muscles to contract.]
I've got qualifications in electronics and health&safety and to me what the police did was out of bounds for health and safety, using your elbow to hit someone in the side of the head could cause brain trauma, shocking the man several times is not good for the heart either, medical conditions aside it could cause cardiac aneurysm.

If the guy is resisting arrest then they are going to taser him.
If the guy is still resisting then they tase him again.
If he is still resisting then they tase him and beat him.
And one tase doesn't always disable someone. Obviously he was still resisting.



Seriously, have you ever watched COPS?

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Originally Posted by RecycleBin

If the guy is resisting arrest then they are going to tazer him.
If the guy is still resisting then they taze him again.
If he is still resisting then they taz him and beat him.
And one taz doesn't always disable someone. Obviously he was still resisting.

Seriously, have you ever watched COPS?

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Did you not read what i just said?
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Yes, and you are wrong. I could be struck by 2 million volts of electricity but if it doesn't have enough ampage it's not going to do much.

Like I said, tasers don't always work.

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Originally Posted by =sw=warlord

I've got qualifications in electronics and health&safety and to me what the police did was out of bounds for health and safety, using your elbow to hit someone in the side of the head could cause brain trauma, shocking the man several times is not good for the heart either, medical conditions aside it could cause cardiac aneurysm.

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Wasn't the elbow though, I think the police did all this to make sure he wasn't a public threat. They would not of tasered him a second time if he wasn't resisting. Possibly drunk as well. Now I know that when you're drunk, the alcohol is a depressent, but it can cause violent things. Perhaps this guy really had no clue what he was doing?