Heartbroken suicidal man, tasered by law enforcement

[RASTADOG123]

Look in any town you live how many police killings there are, 8 in my town in six months, one man killed was a elderly man 76 yrs old and had called the police to see who was outside his house, #2 unarmed Indian was shot five times by off duty cop. Indian ran for help cop went to prison. the Indian was still alive to tell his story.thank god he was able to prove it.that is just in my little town. people we need to arm ourselves why we still can. not saying all cops are bad. but I wont call them

[MrBallinJr]

It all depends on what the conversation was. Maybe they thought he was going to decide to run back out there so he shot a taser so he wouldnt kill himself....the second one was idiotic though. Some officers just dont think that much.

[screwoffreg]

american cops are fucking lazy. try to save a suicidal man? naw, fucking blast that bitch!!!!

[nextbesthing21]

@timmer7000 It sounds like you're implying that the electrocution somehow broke his fall leaving him with only a facial fracture? He still fell the same distance at the same speed the cops just helped him get there.

[inyourface443]

how is this sick or cruel... it saved his life

[byramtax]

murder? he was tasered people..lol. good jobs by the cops. no need to put them selves in harms way when the situation was ended.

[nextbesthing21]

@byramtax they tasered him off of a freeway overpass, not a good job at all by the cops in fact.

[byramtax]

@nextbesthing21

hmmm, i missed that part, so toche'. but i still think their options were limited. what do you do? hes there to kill himself, the video does not show how long they tried to talk to him, and it looks like the taser wasnt very effective against him cause he made a break for the overpass. sad either way. nobody wins in this situation.

[MF0TY]

@byramtax I would have shot the mother fucker in the knee with a 9 mil then he wouldn't have gone anywhere including over the bridge. :P

[byramtax]

@MF0TY

ummm yeah,,,ya cant really do that,,kinda frowned upon,,,i like it,,but the boss might have a word with you in his office afterword. lol.

[MF0TY]

@byramtax Well do you have a better idea? like let him fall off the bridge? Thats the way cops should do stuff? lol. anyway i think all cops are scum bag power crazy morons hopped up on coffee and doughnuts who just get kids out of shooting animals and tazing people.

[byramtax]

@MF0TY

well then you have deeper issues then the guy on the bridge. 99%of cops are great people,,your neighbors and friends from school. they do a job where they see people that are nuts and dont care if they hurt them at all. so unless you do that job you cant comment on it. its like any job, people are good, people are bad. the bottom line is today kids/youth were raised not to respect anything, and that leads to confrontation, and the lib. media goes after cops...very sad.

[MF0TY]

@byramtax Sorry I am aware there are good cops but the one on my street is an ass, every time I've had to deal with them they were an ass regardless of how respectful i was of them, I do have some family members that are cops but they are asses too. And I'm sure there are lots of good cops who do there jobs right and really want to help people and uphold the law, I just seem to get stuck dealing with the ones that are jerks. You're right about the youth of today and the media though.

[byramtax]

@MF0TY

lol,,i cant argue that bro. lol sorry you have to deal with that, but next time just keep in mind their job could really suck, and be very dangerous. but it does suck when you deal with the hard asses. i feel your pain, in more ways then one..

[MF0TY]

@byramtax :x

[josephswift]

@byramtax Let me ask you an honest question...how many cops do you invite to your parties or social get togethers?...... I don't invite them to mine for a very good reason...I don't trust them at all and have no faith in their 'honesty' or humanity. It's a rotten job that corrupts them all over time, no matter how innocent they are when they start their careers.

[byramtax]

@josephswift

answer quite a few. and if that is your opinion about a group of people because of a job, you have a very sad outlook on life. i would love to hear your opinion about lawyers.lol. 90 percent are the best people you will ever meet, just like any other prof. there are some idiots. i dont disagree the pressure of the job may get to some of them,,but most of that manifest in ,,sadly enough, hurting themselves through drugs ect. but very few are criminals

[NewsFromIslam]

Police 1

Hobo 0

[inyourface443]

@NewsFromIslam

lol

[MERCURHILLMANIAC]

really nice work guys ... what kinda tard does something like this ..he had better have been fired but was probably promoted... STUPID FUCKIN PIGS

[amandawonderboy]

They should be FIRED and charged with murder.

[amandawonderboy]

DISGUSTING.

[SVERPRIDE]

fucking disgusting

[Rockstar97321]

Murder by cop. Plain and simple. That's what it looks like to me.

[oddcatalyst]

What the hell happened to escalation of force? Tasers are becoming a crutch for shitty cops who don't know what they're doing..

[cool29801]

They stopped the guy from killing himself, and everyone jumps on the cops saying it was "Abuse"!? Wth! As they were trying to stop him, he put himself in a spot where he fell. (only around 7-8 feet) It's not an abuse of power, they successfully stopped him from killing himself and he's perfectly fine right now.

[5688bd713]

FUCK THE POLICE!!!

[Emohrbeckk]

rofl rofl rofl

[BCt0xiN]

I would have to agree with tg0926.

[JuanOmegaIota]

@BCt0xiN Then I sincerely Hope it happens to your mother too, fuck bag.

[tg0926]

He didn't fall onto the roadway as stated in the description, he fell onto the slope of the bridge overpass about 8 feet or so. He had a facial fracture from the fall, but was not seriously (fatally injured). Also, the guy was on the bridge, shutting down the traffic on a major interstate for 1-2 hours. The police had to end it and couldn't risk him going back out on the bridge when they had him where they could get him safely.

[JuanOmegaIota]

@tg0926

W O W!! What a bunch of rationalizing horse shit. You should be ashamed of yourself for that litany of bullshit. You must be a cop. I hope to fuck it happens to your mother.

[tg0926]

@JuanOmegaIota - HA HA... me a cop! Not even close. What's there to be ashamed of? The truth? And this won't happen to me, my mother or any member of my family because we are smart enough not to put ourselves in a situation where we would be tasered. Bottom line is, don't break the law or be around those breaking the law and you don't have to worry about it.

[stopjunkscience]

@tg0926 Corporate Law is just a device to make money and any one of us could unwittingly get involved. The police are a ''for profit'' corporation. Getting people into court makes money. This guy will end up in court and many will profit from this. A death jump makes no money...tasering does...simple...Get It? The more laws there are...the more money they make.

[slowtaknow]

this is not an abuse video at ,the guy neded help they saved him.however there is abuse widespread in this country and it's because of the new world order mentallity,the cops against the world.that's how there trained to think,it's not there faults,there told everyone is out to get them,plus most cops work split shift to keep them off balance mentally.

[jpear708]

The Police saved this guys life. What are you criticizing them for? The first TASER shot was not successful..as you can plainly see. The 2nd shot took him down and prevented him from harming himself. He is safely taken into custody with ZERO injuries! Should the Police hace simply stood by and let the man jump?

[JuanOmegaIota]

@jpear708 Probably another scuzbag cop. There are plenty of good ones, but obviously, post videos of police abuse and the cockroaches come scurrying out of the pantry to make it look like average citizens would support this action. AGAIN: I can only hoipe it happens to your mother bitches. In any country in the world where mentally unstable people are treated like this because " hey well he was holding up traffif". WHat a fucking douchebag.

[dufftheplumber]

First of all I'm not a "nigger", you ignorant , uneducated piss-on. Secondly, I have been tasered, this dick-bag deserved what he got, do stupid things and this is what you get! I'm sick of all the liberal nuts out there preaching of the evil police. I'm a former Marine, and feel no sympathy for this man.

[JuanOmegaIota]

@dufftheplumber

As if you are educated?

I know plenty of Marines, and none of the opnes I know are callous scumbags like you. Too bad you didnt catch a round douchbag.

[SBFHawk1]

YOur right man! I am telling you the cops are misusing and abusing their powers. But the powers that be are going to get worse on the people. This kindof thing is going to happen more and more.

[sonofabicho]

polices are stupid

[barbwqrr]

Do you know the story behind this? He was wanted for several crimes. Don't know why he decided to jump, was tasered AFTER he moved over to a safer area which was only about 15 ft off the ground. GROUND, not over the interstate where he would have been killed &/or killed someone driving down the highway. He was tasered to prevent his return to a more dangerous spot on the bridge. He's alive because he was kept from jumping to his death to the interstate. Check video; FIRST taser didn't stop him

[JoyLeaf41]

Taser and its supporters in the police community regularly attribute the cause of deaths that follow Tasering to "excited delirium",critics argue that as this alleged condition only exists in relationship to being apprehended by police, its existence is dubious. The condition is not recognized by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

[dufftheplumber]

in a reasonable country this idiot should have been tased an hour earlier or pushed off the bridge!! what a sad country when we feel sorry for the criminal and not those he hurts. tase `em all.

[BoyintheMachine]

Fuck YOU Batard. This is damn murder. Just wait till your ass is cattle proded, because get what? -Currently you don't have to break any law in order to get tasered. The rules are bent so that cops can use tasers in any situation they want.

[dufftheplumber]

all right you left wing illiterate tard, he was breaking the law and has a recod. where is the murder? i've been tasered, its not that bad, "batard"

[BoyintheMachine]

All right you dumb twat, watch the video.

I guess you didn't hear the story the other day where cops killed a suicidal man that threatened to jump to his death. -They tasered him, causing him to fall off the building to his death, -no nets, no air inflated device, they simply deciced they were going to taser him and did. MURDER.

(FYI: The guy in this clip lived, but barely. I hope he sues as the cops clearly endangered his life.)

[TaekwondoGuy86]

@dufftheplumber shut the fuck up you dumb nigger obviously you've never been tasered then it hurts like a mother fucker so shut up

[a211pc]

@BoyintheMachine Actually you are wrong...I am only responding to your comments not the video. Cops can only ..by law and the authority they have been given...use reasonable force if its deemed unreasonable they can be criminally prosecuted and or civily sued as can there dept and city or state. So they can only there fore use a taser when its reasonable so you are wrong they can't use tasers any time they feellike it or for vague reasons .. it has to be reasonable force for the situation..

[BoyintheMachine]

@a211pc

Right, like when they tasered the kid that ran onto the field at the Cardinals-Phillies game? Please. These cops will use these tasers anytime they please, and for the covienence. It's easier on them having to actually tackle the kid. Just whip out the taser and BOOM!!! "When it's reasonable" - When it's convienant, which is most of the time.

[a211pc]

@BoyintheMachine thank you for making my point I appreciate it. Running on the field is a criminal act whether you agree or disagree he broke the law and police don't need to chase a guy around the field all night ..and its not their job to tackle the kid..if the kid won't stop then what else to do ? Too many ppl in society have no resopect for the law anymore..having said that read my orig comment

[BoyintheMachine]

@a211pc

Like all those times the cops taser people who have already been incapacitated? Right. Give it up. A kid is acting a fool, grab his and drag him off. No need to shock the crap out of him.

[MERCURHILLMANIAC]

@a211pc THEY DESERVE NO FUCKING REPECT YOU MORON!

[JoyLeaf41]

This is not a reasonable country. Using lethal or near lethal force any cop can kill or maim any unarmed citizen if the cop "feels fear" or "feared for his safety. There is not even a reasonable man standard needed to use this defense. Cop was scared, cop is justified. Case closed.

[montereypd109]

First of all a tazer is not lethal or near lethal. I don't know the whole story but from watching the short video it looks to me like the man was wanting to commit suicide. If so, I bet the officer was more concerned about the man's imediate safety than his own.

If the officer was actually in fear for his own life then he would have been justified to use "real" lethal force, just as you or I would be. A lot of people don't realize that tazers are used many times to protect the one being tazed.

[JoyLeaf41]

Tasers were introduced as less-lethal weapons to be used by police to subdue fleeing, belligerent, or potentially dangerous subjects, when what they consider to be a more lethal weapon would have otherwise been used. Official reviews of Taser safety are underway.One review heard testimony from J. Patrick Reilly, an electrical engineer at Johns Hopkins who concluded that a Taser shot could kill.Tom Smith maintained the safety of his product but mentioned that his product was not "risk-free".

[montereypd109]

I once tried to revive a man who choked on a boiled egg. He died. One might then conclude that a boiled egg could kill. Nothing (that I know of) is risk free. If the tazer is used for the purpose that you stated above and not abused, I beleive it will save a great many more lives than it will take.

[spikefivefivefive]

How did tasering the guy make him less of a threat to anybody?

He still fell to the ground.

Also, they violated their own taser protocol in the process.

Keep making excuses.

That what cops do to protect themselves and eachother.

[montereypd109]

I dont know what their protocall is ,so I don't know if they violated it or not. Sometimes when your in the rescuers shoes things look different than they do from the camera mans view. Maybe we should all just stand back behind the camera from now on where its safe and be a critic.

[jpear708]

Violated TASER protocol....HOW? and How the hell would you know anyway? Are you trained in the use of the TASER?

[JuanOmegaIota]

@spikefivefivefive Arguing with douchebags is pointless. Lets just hope it happens to his daughter. Then maybe he'll sing a different tune.

[spikefivefivefive]

@JuanOmegaIota You're right. There's no situation out there that cops can't make worse.

[MightyNeonFraa]

The first shot I can understand, once the man is to a safe area a taser shot would knock him out and allow him to be pulled over easily. A reasonable move, if a little harsh.

The second shot was just absurd. The officer who fired the shot was nothing short of an absolute idiot in every sense of the word. In a reasonable country, the officer would be fired immediately and held responsible for what happened.