Saturday Morning Confusion. # 51
Mountie to be disciplined for using Taser on double-parked senior!
With all the uproar over the use of Tasers by cops, especially in British Columbia, I am really, really confused as to why they don't seem to get the message........ Oh wait, I forgot, they are above the law and don't care, one way or the other, on what the public thinks!
Peters, 68, says he raised his arm to try to protect himself before an RCMP officer shot him with the Taser.
The officer stunned him with the Taser once while he was still in his car, and again when he got out, Peters said.
McKinnon said a stun gun should never be used when someone is seated in a car and the officer has been suspended from using the Taser. He will likely receive a written reprimand on his record, McKinnon said.
HOLD ON A MINUTE KIDS, The cop tasered this old guy while he was sitting unarmed in his car, and then a second time because he got combative over being tasered the first time????
For this he gets a reprimand?????
That cop should be charged with "aggravated assualt" or "assualt with a weapon" ...... but we all know that's not going to happen, don't we!
Allan W Janssen is the author of The Plain Truth About God at www.God-101.com and the blog "Perspective" at http://God-101.blogspot.com
With all the uproar over the use of Tasers by cops, especially in British Columbia, I am really, really confused as to why they don't seem to get the message........ Oh wait, I forgot, they are above the law and don't care, one way or the other, on what the public thinks!
An RCMP officer in Kelowna, B.C., will be disciplined for using a Taser stun gun on a 68-year-old stroke victim over a parking violation.John Peters admitted he first drove away when a police officer tried to give him a ticket for double parking. When the RCMP approached his car for the second time the officer had his taser drawn, ready to use.
Supt. Bill McKinnon said the incident grew out of a simple traffic stop that escalated when John Peters drove away.
Peters, 68, says he raised his arm to try to protect himself before an RCMP officer shot him with the Taser. The officer stunned him with the Taser once while he was still in his car, and again when he got out, Peters said.
McKinnon said a stun gun should never be used when someone is seated in a car and the officer has been suspended from using the Taser. He will likely receive a written reprimand on his record, McKinnon said.
"We have determined the use of a conducted energy weapon while Mr. Peters remained seated in the driver's seat of his vehicle was indeed inappropriate," McKinnon said.Peters told the "Perspective" investigative team that the RCMP apologized to him on Thursday before issuing the public statement.
"We in turn regret this particular action, and have apologized to Mr. Peters over this tactical error in judgment. I have ordered a Code of Conduct investigation in order to address the issue," said McKinnon.However, the second use of the Taser on Peters, after he got out of the vehicle, was justified because Peters was combative and resisting arrest, McKinnon said.
HOLD ON A MINUTE KIDS, The cop tasered this old guy while he was sitting unarmed in his car, and then a second time because he got combative over being tasered the first time????
For this he gets a reprimand?????
That cop should be charged with "aggravated assualt" or "assualt with a weapon" ...... but we all know that's not going to happen, don't we!
Allan W Janssen is the author of The Plain Truth About God at www.God-101.com and the blog "Perspective" at http://God-101.blogspot.com
Labels: assault, double parked, John Peters, mounties, taser
posted by Allan W Janssen | 10:55 a.m.
4 Comments:
I view tasers as a gift (from god?) for those dedicated public servants who have been long frustrated by the restraints on their violent tendencies. A few dead people? At least they don't have any marks on them. No blood, no bruises, no broken bones -- the perfect weapon.
If he had not tried to leave the scene, if he had acted with respect for authority, and accepted that he had BROKEN THE LAW and complied with the officer, he would not have had any type of incident to whine about.
He knew full well that he was in the wrong, and knew what he SHOULD have done--and how he SHOULD have behaved. To bellyache about brutality after the fact...I think he deserves contempt.
If he wants special consideration due to his age, then I want him to act with the honor and dignity of gentlemen from his 'more gracious' era.
Sorry, but I don't buy into the poor me, I broke the law and somebody slapped me attitude.
Well, I hope to hell somebody "slaps" you with a taser some day, just for walking away. You might change your attitude. Since when is walking away combative? Even if he mouthed off, physical violence is not acceptable. That kind of response wasn't even allowed before tasers were available. Why the heck do you think the police like them so much?
Now do you see what we are up against in this world kids?
Here we have two supposedly sane and rational people with wildly different points of view! Neither one of them is really wrong or right, it just depends on the point of view!
(Although I could mutter to myself that one of them is an asshole!)
Tasers started out a a substitute for guns but now they are conveniently used for "compliance" because it's so much easier to just zap someone.
This is a direct example of the hubris (arrogance) of the cops, doing what they want, and not being held accountable.
Allan Janssen
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