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#t=119BainsBane
(53,076 posts)There are far too many cases like this. They kill people for no reason.
Rex
(65,616 posts)THEY ARE THE BEST!!!
Pretzel_Warrior
(8,361 posts)MNBrewer
(8,462 posts)because being on the roof is illegal, and the police are entitled to take any measures they want to punish... I mean.. um...
AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)See the list of the dead:
http://truthnottasers.blogspot.com/
BainsBane
(53,076 posts)Guns don't kill but tasers do? Suddenly it's the tool rather than the person?
LWolf
(46,179 posts)tabasco
(22,974 posts)Here in the United Police States of Amerikkka, cops have all the rights.
Thanks mostly to the "war" on some drugs and the "war" on terror.
longship
(40,416 posts)Suicide is illegal!! Anybody succeeding would be subject to prosecution. Law enforcement are only trying to protect people from criminal activities.
So stop complaining.
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Incitatus
(5,317 posts)It was a grown man it's his roof, just leave him the hell alone. They wasted all those resources and then killed him for no good reason. Disgusting.
msongs
(67,462 posts)"A killing that results from an act that demonstrates the perpetrators depraved indifference to human life" - yahoo
damnedifIknow
(3,183 posts)Was it too much trouble to get someone there that has experience with this sort of thing to talk to the guy instead of using tasers?
A Little Weird
(1,754 posts)I beginning to wonder if we might not be better without police at all if this is what we get.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)The guy could have been killed.
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)BadgerKid
(4,559 posts)Th1onein
(8,514 posts)Get rid of police forces. They don't protect and they don't serve. They are revenue generating machines now, with no respect for human dignity or life.
bluedeathray
(511 posts)Coming to your neighborhood soon!