:Angry rant: police brutality pisses me off

[Mr Buckshot]

it sounds pretty justified here. If you're trying to hurt people, you deserve to get tasered. You keep trying to resist, you just get tasered more and more until it's safe to handcuff you.

no tasering incident is worse than the one that happened right here in my airport (Vancouver) where a newly arrived Polish immigrant, who was getting increasingly agitated (no sleep, zero help from the immigration officers), got tasered to death by four cops (who are sadly keeping their badges). Witnesses said the Polish guy wasn't trying to be violent, he was throwing chairs around to get attention to his plight, and basically everything was a complete mistake.

[Timo]

@timo, it sounded like they were shouting him to straighten his legs but if he has all his muscles contracting that would be very hard to do.
i've been hit by 240v from a computer power supply unit once and i could not feel my arm for most of the day due to all the muscles contracting which were squashing the nerve ending, it wore off after a few hours but i dare say a laser could be a very nasty experience usualy it takes 30 minutes for someone to recover which is relatively short but i dare say they could still feel a tingle after probably not as long though due to lower current than said psu.

The power supply caused your arm to be numb, but was it able to freely move still? If tazers caused a person to contract up into the fetal position and prevent them from moving from that position, they would be never be used. The guy was still resisting.

[jcap]

Protip: current does not equal voltage, amperage does.
Therefore i am not wrong you misinterpreted what i said.

V=IR, where V is voltage in volts, I is current in amperes, and R is the resistance in ohms. It seems he resisted too much.

Also, not really sure what you meant by "current does not equal voltage, amperage does."

Current is measured in amperes...

And like Arteen said, V does not equal I. Because you have a resistor (V=IR), that changes everything. High resistance = low amperage, and low resistance = high amperage, assuming V stays the same.

[TVTyrant]

They should have just smacked him across the head with a baton :| Tazers are more trouble then they're worth. Seriously, just knock him out and get it over with.

[Masterz1337]

Striking someone in the head with a object IS police brutality. The only time they can do that is in a life or death situation, like if you have some guy on top of you trying to stab or choke you.

[rossmum]

I like the way people whine when the cops have to shoot a kid dead for coming at them with a knife, and then when they're issued tasers, they complain about them using them. Yes, there should be strict guidelines explaining when it is and isn't appropriate and harsh penalties for misuse, but no, there shouldn't be a push to remove the taser from use or heavily restrict it.

At the end of the day, what's really needed is a more efficient way of weeding out the good cops (who want to make a difference and fight crime) from the bad cops (who want to shoot people).

[Bodzilla]

they had a guy driving his car down here, they rolled down the windows AND TASERED A MOVING VEHICLE THROUGH THE MUTHA FUCKIGN WINDOW

BAN TASERS NOW.
It's a fucking bullshit police brutality weapon that doesnt leave a mark, is easy to exploit and keeps them clean.
In QLD they held a girl down and tasered her inner thigh.
Why do we give these useless tax collecting fucks more power.

RAGE

[Daishi]

Just a question; how is this brutality? This is EXACTLY what I think the Police is supposed to do: use whatever means necessary to protect the populous.

[Heathen]

they had a guy driving his car down here, they rolled down the windows AND TASERED A MOVING VEHICLE THROUGH THE MUTHA FUCKIGN WINDOW

BAN TASERS NOW.
It's a fucking bullshit police brutality weapon that doesnt leave a mark, is easy to exploit and keeps them clean.
In QLD they held a girl down and tasered her inner thigh.
Why do we give these useless tax collecting fucks more power.

RAGE

BULLSHIT.

On point tasers might not leave a mark but most cops carry those launchy stabby tasers and those fuckers leave a MARK.

I got tazed for a gunshow. I was like "heh, go for it" I dont know I was feeling pretty head strong because I had two girls with me. Anyways, forgetting that they shoot out spikes, I was like "wait for the shock...."

Then I got STAB JAM ZAP.

Left two purple circles on my lower stomach. Damn close to my giblets.

Yes, your right they should be regulated, and they are.
There are certain places allowed to be tazed and stuff like that.

But fuck, try it out. Its enough incentive to get me to drop still when a cop would tackle me.
I bet that girl was resisting while they held her down.

[rossmum]

they had a guy driving his car down here, they rolled down the windows AND TASERED A MOVING VEHICLE THROUGH THE MUTHA FUCKIGN WINDOW

BAN TASERS NOW.
It's a fucking bullshit police brutality weapon that doesnt leave a mark, is easy to exploit and keeps them clean.
In QLD they held a girl down and tasered her inner thigh.
Why do we give these useless tax collecting fucks more power.

RAGE

yes let's shoot everyone dead or beat their skulls in instead!!!

ps fuck tha police all cops are shitheads!!!

please bodie don't be an ignoramus, i don't want to have to roast you publicly for it