MD police sued for excessive force; diabetic reaction the cause

[Tastyfish]

Many are a few steps away form being criminals themselves....

[Phookah]

If he actually hit something, as in had an accident, then the paramedics should have been called immediately. I hope every police officer involved negatively gets fired and the shit sued out of them.

[Sylvre]

Your reading the plaintiff's version of the story which is of course going to try to paint the police as brutal as possible. Do you think that the wife can possibly be expected to give a completely objective and accurate account of the story? Of course not. And the police are going to give a report that says otherwise.

Do I give a damn what actually happened? No because this is exactly why god created lawyers. Also because I don't live in Maryland.

But mostly the lawyer thing.

[theemann]

It shows that police are never too busey to clean up after a murdur.

[Masark]

why? for someone acting drunk or a raving lunatic? Should the police call paramedics for stopping every drunk driver? for stopping every car that someone gets violent and hits a cop?

If they are behaving in an erratic manner, yes.

[Acquilae]

I hate cops. // Always think they're above the law, always have superiority complexes, and always guaranteed to not get the job done.

Not all but most are like that.

The only cops I dislike than the short fused ones who will explode at anyone questioning their authority are the so called good ones who turn the other way against the bad cops and do nothing to stop them from something like brutalizing a helpless person.

52 cops at the scene and not one had the common sense to say "do you think this might be a little too excessive?"

[someotherguy]

why? for someone acting drunk or a raving lunatic? Should the police call paramedics for stopping every drunk driver? for stopping every car that someone gets violent and hits a cop?

shouldn't they call paramedics anytime someone is tazed?
There are places that require police to come on any paramedics call (most likely to protect them), I don't see why it wouldn't be a requirement for every time someone is tazed/pepper-sprayed/or something similar that could have allergic reaction or similar.

[Svifnymr]

The only cops I dislike than the short fused ones who will explode at anyone questioning their authority are the so called good ones who turn the other way against the bad cops and do nothing to stop them from something like brutalizing a helpless person.

52 cops at the scene and not one had the common sense to say "do you think this might be a little too excessive?"

52 people on the scene, not cops. I assume by the end there were probably 15-20 cops easy and of course paramedics and a coroner, crime scene techs, et cetera.

There were not 52 cops dragging one limp man from a car to taser him.