The dispute was over Child Protective Services taking his daughter, and it wasn’t until she was grabbed from him that witnesses say police jammed the Taser in his ribs. He fell out of the wheelchair, and in the scuffle, his pants fell down. After being handcuffed, he was left exposed to the public for about 10 minutes. From all reports, there looks to be no suggestion of anything inappropriate going on with his daughter, so the hope is that the incident wasn’t racially motivated.
But my question is this: Can police just Taser anyone they don’t like now? The mounting police-brutality stories in our Taser archive suggest so. And that just sucks. [Merced Sun-Star via Daily Kos]
Mic Cullen
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 at 7:55 AMSo, what’s this got to do with Gizmodo? Particularly in Australia?
Articles for the sake of it are a PITA, although I’m sure it’s terrific for the post-count.
Elly Hart
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 at 10:50 AMTasers are gadgets of interest here at Gizmodo.
John Kirkham
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 at 10:47 AMSecond with Mic. This stuff isn’t related to tech’…
Rob
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 at 11:36 AMI agree. This is bad and sad. I visit this site to get away from this crap. We are already inescapably bombarded with terrible things we do to each other on the television, radio and web news channels.
And while I’m at it, what’s with the other post about the pedophile? He is an idiot, he has a hard drive…?
Let’s just try to stick to gizmos’n'gadgets on here, raving, tangential bloggers are a dime a dozen!
Captain Pajama Shark
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 at 3:23 PMWhy taser?
I woulda just shot him.
::)
simon
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 at 9:06 PMAt first they tasered innocent wheelchair bound men but I said nothing, but then they came to outlaw my gadget (because it could be used to criticise them) and there was nobody to stand up for me.