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rachel1

(538 posts)
Sat Jan 19, 2013, 01:51 AM Jan 2013

3 in Cleveland arrested for posing as TV news crew, shocking victims with stun gun while filming

Cops say the trio went on a sadistic spree in west Cleveland, asking victims for 'interviews' before zapping them with a Taser. One suspect told police they did it for 'fun.'

A sadistic trio in Cleveland posed as a TV news crew and then zapped people with a stun gun while recording with a video camera, police said.

Derek Rowell, 25, Solomon Herbert, 19, and an unidentified teen were part of a six-man crew involved in at least two Taser attacks on Saturday, local station WKYC reported.

Cops said the gang carried a video recorder as they approached a man at around 2 p.m. and said they wanted to interview him for a news story.

The man kept walking, and the sick thugs struck, shocking him in the back of the neck, the station reported.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/crew-posed-reporters-tasered-victims-article-1.1241813

Despicable freaks.

If they don't somehow improve after leaving prison, if they're ever incarcerated, those monsters could wreak even more havoc in the future.

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3 in Cleveland arrested for posing as TV news crew, shocking victims with stun gun while filming (Original Post) rachel1 Jan 2013 OP
Tasers can kill defacto7 Jan 2013 #1
What a pointless excercise in barbarity Riftaxe Jan 2013 #2

defacto7

(13,485 posts)
1. Tasers can kill
Sat Jan 19, 2013, 02:22 AM
Jan 2013

If someone has a heart condition or a pacemaker. They would be up for murder. Jackasses are stupider by the moment.

Riftaxe

(2,693 posts)
2. What a pointless excercise in barbarity
Sat Jan 19, 2013, 05:21 AM
Jan 2013

I hope Derek and Solomon are given significant time to ponder what they 'thought' they were doing. There are only 2 attacks that are charged with, how many went unreported...and why would anyone do something like this?

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