TPD sides with security guard Vs Reserve Officer in Taser assault?

[Vashta Nerada]

One the Tulsa World missed:

http://www.fox23.com/mediacenter/local.aspx?videoid=4143191

[sauerkraut]

Oh well the TW can't catch 'em all there has been a boat load of news lately.

[patric]

When was TPD issued Tasers?

I remember Palmer was saying he used forfeiture money to buy some, and then there's this:

After the task force located the suspect with their cameras, May says a police officer, Officer Robin Mendenhall, then entered the hole with a flashlight and a stun gun and took Alexander into custody.
http://www.kjrh.com/dpp/news/local_news/suspected-burglar-arrested-after-hiding-in-12-inch-void-on-tulsas-i-44-bridge-near-garnett

[tulsa_fan]

Not every officer has one, but they've been on the force for years now.

[patric]

Not every officer has one, but they've been on the force for years now.

I honestly thought the reason TPD wasnt using Tasers was because they knew better.

One Taser-Related Death a Week in U.S. Since 2009
http://www.allgov.com/news/top-stories/one-taser-related-death-a-week-in-us-since-2009-130810?news=850827

[Vashta Nerada]

I honestly thought the reason TPD wasnt using Tasers was because they knew better.

No, they just know they can blame the victim once they discover 50,000 volts applied to the heart can stop it.

Even as the police were looking into the conduct of their officers, a police spokesman said Friday that "no crime has been committed here" and that there was "definitely no gross negligence" on the part of the officer who fired the Taser. "You don't die of a Taser," Sgt. Robert Hernandez said, adding that the young man "could have died from physical exertion or a pre-existing condition, or something in his system."

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/11/us/grief-and-cries-of-outrage-follow-taser-victims-death.html?_r=0


How calloused would someone like that be?

'He said 'you should have seen how funny it was when his butt clenched when he got Tased' and they were all clapping and doing high-fives all over his body. It was almost like they were proud of what they did.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2387791/Outrage-Miami-Beach-cops-high-fived-celebration-Tasered-teen-lay-dying-family-calls-assassination.html?ico=ushome^headlines