Teen with Autism Tasered by Police

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That really sucks... at least they didn't kill him.

What the? You should see me after one of my sigholdaccountlostirific obession sessions. People actually ask me what I've been on.

Have a look at the topic below us. / city.

That's just sick. Those cops need to be fired and put in the slammer.

I think it is horrible this guy was shot. I had a neighbor that was in the police and he used to tell us that it was a terrible job, although he loved his job. He hated having to figure out who was a guy with a gun that just shot a store owner versus a schitzoprenic who was hearing voices versus a troubled 14 year old with a chip on his shoulder that was trying to be a MAN.

I'm hoping that technology would help this situation. That all cops have a "reader" and if someone is not a criminal, but thinks differently...it would show up on their screen. Then they would know it was not a criminal that might harm THEM. Still, this will never fly, IMO, because people would be concerned with privacy issues.

Well, no wonder why they attacked him. He was african-american AND autistic.
Both are a magnet for hate-crime.

Police aren't better around here. When child care were to hospitalize me they brought three cops who beat me up even though I didn't attack them. The fact that I didn't want to follow and tried to outrun them was enough of a reason for them to hit me.

The paradox about police violence is that you cannot stop it even if you are an eye-witness. They will only claim that "the suspect made resistance or acted offensive" or something even more f****d up.

Cops are scum

In situations like this, I can't help but point out: How are police supposed to determine that someone is autistic/has special needs, while keeping a safe distance? Do you know if it was 2 police officers who came across him or just the 1? Unlike most conditions, autism simply does not have 1 big sign shouting to passerbys "I am autistic!". Most people you meet wouldn't be able to tell, even though they might suspect something is up, I'm sure most of you would just present a little bit odd. And yet we expect the police to diagnose people on the fly? Should they assume every odd-presenting person is autistic, just so a couple of mistakes don't happen and unarmed people don't get tasered? They've got themselves to worry about also. In hindsight, it's easy to say "He was unarmed, he was harmless", but it is very different in-the-moment. We need to lower our expectations of what police should do. They're not perfect, they're human, and they do make mistakes. Oh my god, they're not perfect? Well, then they MUST be evil! Right?

The police where I am are too stupid to operate a taser. It's a miricle they can even drive.

God I hate the police, a bunch of incompetent slobs.