Cops Taser And Arrest Man For Trying To Save Son From Fire

[Shanks 10,816]

That gives the authority to first responders to step in and act in your best interest.

And how is tasering someone where there were other ways to restrain him in his best interest? I get that restraining him was necessary but at what point do we say enough is enough? Police brutality is an epidemic and there is no accountability whatsoever, I am scared to death of the police and I have no criminal record.

 

Love and Tolerance, my butt.

A jack booted thug is a jack booted thug and I fail to see how I am being intolerant by recognizing this, America is becoming a police state and I think I have every right to be angry about that.

Edited December 20, 2013 by EarthbendingProdigy

[Tech Pony 64]

Let's look at this... Almost certain injury and possible if not probable death for the man or temporary pain and a 99.7% chance to live. You do the math and tell me what is a more favorable outlook. 

[Shanks 10,816]

Let's look at this... Almost certain injury and possible if not probable death for the man or temporary pain and a 99.7% chance to live. You do the math and tell me what is a more favorable outlook. 

But what evidence do you have that that was the only way to restrain him? If there is compelling evidence that that was the only way to restrain him than I will gladly take back what I said, but until then I still stand by what I said. I have already said my peace on this and leave wondering just what it is going to take for us to get out of this political Stockholm Syndrome where nothing any authority figure ever does is wrong.

Edited December 20, 2013 by EarthbendingProdigy

[SS Patches 138]

okay here are My Opinions about this.

1.the police's judgement call was a great one they stopped a man from dying.

2.using a taser should be a last resort in any police situation there used to paralyze criminals not an innocent bystander.

3.they could used oh hmm... what else does a policeman have on him oh i know *sarcasm* Handcuffs you know the non-lethal way to restrain someone.

4.does the police not have other tried and true ways to control crowds if need be such as pepper spray or capsucum spray.

[Tech Pony 64]

I never said there wasn't a better way, if you read up through what I said. 

[Iudex 1,945]

He was mandated by law to prevent this guy from doing harm to himself. He chose a nonlethal method to do so. He was not above the law, he was following the law. 

^This.

 

I think it's better for the cops to TASE the guy and keep himself from getting killed than having to risk two deaths.

Jail time... Maybe that's a little far. I didn't read the article. But they did the right thing.

 

Let me put it this way. Would you rather have some random guy defuse a bomb to save his family or the trained bomb squad personnel that are already there?

 

[Hive King 2,001]

I don't see why people are throwing a bitch fit over this. I guess people think it'd be more honorable if the father died with his son? That's heinous logic that is literally only used by villains in fiction. Seriously, have you heard the "You can die with him if you want to" line from anyone but hammy villains? The cops ensured that there wasn't a second body in the fire. As for hand-cuffs, cuffing someone who is going completely insane is not easy and it was safer for everyone to just tase him

[Frith is Magick 1,471]

I am going to side with the police on this one. Letting that man in the house would have resulted in a second corpse. Police tased him, handcuffed him, tased him twice more, took him to the jail, then released him without charge. Let's analyze this a bit.

 

The officer likely didn't walk up and zap the father. The first tase was likely away to get the man in cuffs and away from the fire. Imagine you're in the father's shoes, you won't walk away, you will fight to save your child. The officer had to get the father away from the fire, so he tased him again. Was the third zap necessary? Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't, but the officer had to make a call, and he had to do it fast. I imagine that the father is quite pissed at this point, so what do you do? Drive him to the jail, give him some time to collect himself, and release him without charge.

 

A firefighter attempted to save the child, and failed. Is it tragic? Sure. Would letting the father kill himself have helped? No. If anything, the backlash would have been worse. Another thing to bear in mind, there is a building burning down the whole time. The police and firefighters weren't sitting calmly in front of a computer, they were in an emergency situation where judgement calls had to be made quickly. Are police perfect? No, they're human too, but they did carry out their duties to the best of their ability.