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Tilted Cat Head
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Originally Posted by pig
cyn: as jazz more or less said: i'm comfortable with the use of a taser in a situation where the officer reasonably feels that the person in question represents a credible danger to himself or others.
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not just directed at you pig, but to those who don't think it can or should be used as a tool for compliance like a pr-24/baton.
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Fla. Man Says He Was Tasered Over Quran
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OCALA, Fla. (AP) — Four police officers are under investigation after a man accused them of using a Taser on him three times when he wouldn't take his hand off a Quran hidden under his shirt, a police spokesman said Friday.
Jeffrey Shields, 49, of Ocala, filed a complaint with the Ocala Police Department alleging an officer used a Taser to force him to hold up his right hand, police spokesman Lou Biondi said.
In a complaint filed Tuesday, Shields said he did not want to raise his right hand from under his shirt because he did not want to drop the Quran, but the officers said they could not tell what he was holding, Biondi said.
"The officers didn't have a clue what he had under there, regardless of what he was saying," he said.
Officers were dispatched to the scene on Aug. 31 after authorities received tips that a man matching Shields' description was armed with a gun and stashing drugs inside a book, Biondi said. Neither drugs nor a gun was found after the incident.
Shields was shocked with the Taser for 15 seconds before he removed his hand from the book, Biondi said. He filed the complaint against four officers __ Phil Hazel, Doug Russell, Bernard Smith and Jamie Buchbinder — though no police records show Russell was on the scene when the Taser was deployed, Biondi said. All four will remain on duty while the incident is reviewed.
"It is odd that he waited so long to file a complaint, 19 days or so," Biondi said. "Normally when people feel they've been wronged, it's something that happens almost immediately."
A phone number for Shields could not be located.
Biondi said a police dashboard camera did not capture the incident.
Shields was initially given a court notice for resisting arrest without violence, Biondi said, but charges were dropped at his Sept. 10 appearance.
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for the safety of the officer? or just because well, he wasn't complying and shouldn't be subject to potentially dropping the quran. I'm sure it could have easily been resolved as him stating that he was slowly pulling out his right hand WITH the quran in it since he didn't want to drop it. Of course maybe he was too scared shitless to think about anything else.
Again, I state that officers should be allowed and expected to utilize tools that fit the situations appropriately and since this new ubiquitous technology is finally distributed far and wide, we'll continue to see how it is being shaped and formed as it's usage becomes better defined.
For this situation I posted above, I don't see any misuse as it is written. I haven't been able to find any more but the AP regurgitated on other sites.
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