Death of Pensacola Teen Highly Suspicious

[Ayn Rand]

This thread is going to deliver, I can feel it

 

[Ajidica]

For once we are in agreement.

 

[nonconformist]

I'm ready and willing

 

[Luckymoose]

He tazed him and accidentally ran him over. The only crime worthy thing here is planting the gun.

 

[Ajidica]

Wouldn't there also be negligence or 2nd degree manslaughter (the one where someone dies as an indirect result of your actions)? I mean the officer did kill the teen with excessive force. Simply running away from the police doesn't give them the right to use terminal force when you haven't commited a felony.

 

[MobBoss]

Which has absolutely nothing to do with arguing semantics instead of addressing the issues. Do you think it takes a degree in "forensics science" to be able to do that?

In this particular case....absolutely.

The story clearly has to do with tasers. I really don't see how anybody could argue differently given the article in the OP which makes that point quite obvious.

Of course you dont see it. But the fact remains that virtually everyone in this thread disagrees with you. /shrug.

Perhaps you will figure that out. Or not.

I think it is far more than a tragic accident. Why is the cop still even employed there after being caught lying about why he was even chasing the boy, much less why he crawled underneath his cruiser and stayed there for 40 seconds?

Since it happened awhile back, wouldnt this be easy to answer now?

Edit: Found it. http://www.fox10tv.com/dpp/news/pensacola-officer-jerald-ard-suspended He got an 80 hour suspension without pay and then was allowed back on patrol duty after that period.

Perhaps the authorities didnt think it as terrible as you, eh?

 

[amadeus]

Got any examples of a white kid on a bicycle being chased down the sidewalk by a police car, possibly even tased from a moving vehicle, and then run over?

Seeing as it is a fairly elaborate scenario, I don't think I can. Can you find any other examples of this happening to non-whites?

 

[Earthling]

Formaldehyde, you are right and everyone arguing otherwise is dead wrong, the whole story in the OP obviously has to do with tasers. Just thought you'd want to know that, for your own sanity, not to be thrown off by jokes or folks being purposefully misleading.

 

[GinandTonic]

Cop drives over suspect. Cop shouldnt be a cop or a driver. A better cop/ driver could have tasered the guy without turning hard left to drive over him, or without tasering him when the guy was ahead and had the potential to fall under the car. The problem is the car not the taser.

 

[Earthling]

If somebody said that the alternative was being fine with just firing a gun out of a moving vehicle, and so taser = replacement for gun, then I could see that person arguing the taser isn't really a problem.

However, authorizing use of tasers in such situations at all, (which as mentioned was subsequently revoked) as I don't think most are assuming more widespread use of guns is the answer, means the taser is part of the problem.