Fla. police use Taser on nude man walking a dog

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Fla. police use Taser on nude man walking a dog

Just a thought...

MOST PEOPLE couldn't care less about this story because it omits what happened to the dog!

"McCranie said using the Taser was the only way to subdue the man without having to hurt him."

not hurt him?.. yeah, riight..


I am so sick of cops.. just another weapon to play with..

Ehhh cops were always a little gang for instance if you kill one they all want to kill you in revenge they may not but they'll try if they can. And really they're just like any group of people most of them middle to lower class low education and then they get a gun and power what do you think their all going to be good and try hard to enforce the law with out breaking it themselves? Most will as a whole but not always and not all.

Tasers are evil.

I imagine they also use tasers to open doors, make coffee, and teach their children how to walk.

Is there any part of having thousands of volts passed through you that DOES have a beneficial effect on your mental health?

Are american police even vaguely trained in the art of "talking to the suspect" and "non violent arrest techniques". Its quite easy to do. I see british coppers do it all the time and very rarely, if ever, do they have to electrocute someone. Your criminals are no more dangerous than ours, your mad people no more mad.. so why do your police officers act like Serbian Paramilitaries with even the simplest and smallest of offenses? Was this man carrying a concealed weapon perhaps? Or are american police s**t thick inbred gun-toting muscle-bound jumped up security guards hiding behind an arsenal Stalin would have been proud of?

Wy am I not surprised it happened in Florida....?

Probably because of the "don't tase me, bro!" incident.

The Taser is just the latest in a long line of less lethal weapons to be used by the police, sometimes questionably. In the old days they'd use a lead shot sap or a pipe wrapped in newspaper so that they didn't leave marks, but that's old school now. I would argue that temporary electrical shock is preferable to a blow to the head, though both should be avoided if at all possible. If anything, the Taser forces more accountability, as there is always a record of it having been fired, and if I remember correctly in addition to the darts it launches confetti in order to mark the position of the officer when the device was fired.

Considering the lack of information in the article, I wouldn't feel comfortable second guessing the officer, naked or not I know that the mentally ill can be highly threatening, and exactly what led up to the tasing is not described. It may have come down to hitting him or using the Taser, and as said, the Taser may actually be the safer option.

rofl! pretty much sums it up for me

If the guy did something threatening like pull knife, or charge at them I could understand using the taser but he didn't do that. Cops are very trigger happy which is bad, because stuff like taser are very traumatic trust me I know they hurt like hell all over your body.

Cops need to be accountable for their action, I was watching an ABC news special and cops won't arrest other cops. I saw one he was clearly drunk and driving, well another police officer pulled him over, but because he was a cop he did not get arrested.

I remember watching a show about a SWAT team where part of the training is to get tasered.
I hope the tasered guy is ok.
so what happened to the dog?