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  • They couldn't have waited to bring in the thing that firefighters use to catch people when they hop out of burning homes?

  • In my experience, most cops are either corrupt or absolutely incompetent. I fucking hate them. My son- in-law is a cop and during this huge shootout downtown he shot himself in the foot trying to pull out his gun. Typical.

  • He forgiven instead being tormented about it. The killed himself he was really sorry.

  • The officer made a mistake it happens it's a job,and they are human too.If he was sorry about it then why wasnt

  • the guy who does this show is half retarded.

  • if i was one of those cops i would have tased the cop that tased the dude

  • I hate cops period!

  • U know u can get fined or arrested for calling a cop a name

  • For you bashing the cops listen I know a man that is a nypd officer and was good friends with the man that gave the order to do this and it's because FUCKS like you the man later committed suicide, he got his badge and gun taken, he was transferred, and was treated like shit so one night he use bolt cutters to break into the department get a gun and kill himself so fuck you all.

  • @ifaptoblack Fuck the police. At least he had the good sense to off himself. Wish the rest of them would do the same.

  • the cop should be tortured to death naked within like 2 months beggin for death and gettin reanimated again and again and again

  • It should have been VERY apparent to the police that the man had issues, mentally or medically. Whoever gave the order to Taser the guy might not have been on the scene, be the ultimate responsibility lies in the cop who did the Taser shot. He should have KNOWN that the first thing the guy would do is fall to the GROUND! VERY VERY poor judgement. I don't think he has what it takes to be a cop. Cops routinely have to make split second life/death decisions, and this cop failed MISERABLEY!

  • Oh man, that is fucked...

    

  • FUCKIN PLOICE!!!!!!!!!!!! I HATE'EM

  • @TheKikyo1234

    you hate them? they only protect us. dumb ass

  • Give a cop a Teaser and he will use it

    Give a cop a Gun and he will use it

    Give a cop nothing and he will act as a person as should be

    like in Europe

  • A couple of months ago I saw a racist white cop trying to taser an innocent Black college guy, & the guy panicked & ran. & the cop tasered him & had him screaming. The Black guy did nothing. Cops can be bullies most times.

  • @cherryjig7983 Just curious-were you a close aquaintence of the cop, knew his personality and knew he was a racist...or was it just because he was a cop and WHITE that made him racist? Also- the black college guy...were you there to see what happened, are you a close persoal friend of his...or did you know he was innocent because he was BLACK and the cop was WHITE? I've travelled to many parts of the world and don't have a racist bone in my body. YOU sound like a bigot & a racist...

  • I got one better than this. The cops tazed a 13 year old boy up at PS 243 a few years back. They were called to settle a fight in the cafiteria. I noticed that never made the news :)

  • let the cops do there job

  • @bullfrog11758 tackle him with a blanket? Put some sort of padding on the ground? Get the kids out of the area? I can understand you having no idea how to deal with this, but the police, who's job is to keep EVERYONE safe, should have had this mans safety in mind here, not their own. They have a dangerous job but they shouldn't be minimizing that danger to themselves by being so aggressive towards anyone else, we didn't sign up for the danger/violence, THEY DID.

  • Wow... sounds like police have the easiest jobs in the world... no mistake gets them fired or jailed.

    I would be killing left and right

  • Those cops should be fired immediately for being mentally unfit for the job. I mean if you can't fuckin figure out that tazing a fuckin guy on a ledge will lead to him falling OFF the ledge then l hospital. I think they should be charged for murder un insanity so they go to a luney bin for about 6 months.

    I mean you have to be mentally retarded to do something like this...

  • young turks, i enjoy your program. but don't call my dad who ordered the taser and then killed himself because of it or any esu police officer who protect ny everyday an idiot. please don't.

  • @JediFan421 They are calling it as they see it.  It was fairly obvious that the man would fall once taser'd, that is what they are designed to do after all. If your dad is at fault for a man dying because of your dad's lack of foresight, then I can't feel sorry. The police do a necessary job, but when someone dies because of their bad decisions, they deserve to be punished as well. All said, cops taser entirely too readily, and your dad got a man killed. Dude needed help, got killed.

  • another low life culled to the herd!

  • Cenk is absolutely correct, that since the tasers were introduced as a "safe" alternative to resorting to firearms in a situation where non lethal force is necessary. The result has been that the mentality of cops has been ingrained with the words; "safe weapon". Thus, since its supposedly so safe, they've been taser trigger happy & often using it even when no kind of weapon is necessary.

    There's been cases in which male cop/s act like they're endangered by a 75 yr. old lady even though she's

  • @Chuichupachichi Possible solution: everytime you use the taser you get tasered at the end of the shift. That would make cops think twice before using it...

  • face down on the ground from having already been tasered once & since she's moaning in pain is why she wasn't responding to his frantically imperiled screaming commands to put her hands behind her back. But apparently it was too dangerous for the 40 something cop to himself put her 75 yr. old hands behind her back. So he tasered her... again

  • Homey took a header...

  • nice video. yet

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  • It's called LESS than lethal not non lethal

  • the cop killed himself ...

  • This is a good example of dumb ass cops abusing their authority. They say the taser is non lethal, which is bullshit. They think it's a good idea to tase a man who is 10 feet off the ground, and naked at that. I guess this idiotic cop didn't think that the man would hit the concrete and die. But cops can get away with anything, which is fucked up. Oh well, cops like this will burn in hell.

  • What if there is no hell...and the only way for them to be punished or brought to justice is for the people of our country to come together..and do something about it.

  • ~plays a banjo~

  • This is a sad story but an example of cops overreacting. The cop that killed this man committed suicide a few days later.

    Two lives gone because of poor police training and a culture that encourages a disrespect of the public in general by the police.

    When I was younger I dated a cop and had many friends who were police officers. All of them were nice when they joined the force, but in a few years lost all traces of their humanity.

  • That's what happens. They develop that kind of mentality through their peers etc.

    Police departments are like cults in many ways.

  • fucking pig.

  • Sounds like a tabloid headline "Cops taser naked man to death!".

  • hmmm, what ever happened to negotiations and other methods to get him down? seriously, are they that stupid that they didn't take into account that tasers drop you instantly? and yet on a ledge.....smart

  • OK, he says the man is "10 FLOORS UP!" Why? when it is said in the video of the situation that the man "falls onto his head from 10'." There is a big differance from 10 Floors and 10'.

  • not if you land on your head and die cos some retard pig tasers you

  • Bad move from the cops, and I agree on cops being more pansies these days tasering old woman, etc. when they could easily get these people into cuffs by other means, but on the other hand-this guy was clearly threatening/attempting suicide-so they kind of just helped him out!

  • yea easy with the tazer use tear gas

  • Grow up.

  • easy boy- no one is saying let him go. they fucking killed him though, that's not really ok. where was he going to go from that ledge? who was he going to hurt? they broke thier own rules by doing that. You don't fucking murder people with mental problems, hey, you're alive right?

  • Hey Homeboy. Do u live in LA? Would love to put my fist in your face. Let's meet up soon tough guy.

  • I love what Cenk does at 2:38. LMFAO!!

  • The problem with police is that they don't seek to defend anyones rights.

  • What's worse is the guy fired.

  • it was a lapse in judgement and he just did what he was ordered to do without thinking.

  • Did you know if I was holding a tazer, and had a lapse in judgement, and was ordered to by some asshole and shocked some cop and he died I'd go to jail? Or even if he was barely hurt? What will you say now? Oh, cuz he's a cop he can do whatever? Those thoughts are what made the cops in NY and PA rape those women.

  • First of all ur not authorized to carry a tazer and use it (i'm assuming here that your not a cop). Yes your right about some cops abusing power but you exagerate the scope of corruption in the police department currently. Mostly I don't believe that the Police want to taze suicidal people if they don't feel they have to.

  • rofl I knew your argument would be because he's a cop. I am most certainly not exaggerating the scope of corruption, my friend. I'm from NY, and the cops here are full of it. Tell me how a veteran 13 year swat member "trips" and just so happens his MP5 fires one bullet and strikes my friend in the head. WHOOPS. What about the beatings given to people who barely resist? What about tazing old women who then die? Or young men who then die? What about the cops that repeatedly are caught with drugs?

  • Alot of people say that New York has corrupt police walking the streets and beating and killing people at random but that just isn't true. Even a veteran of the police force cannot remain cool when they feel threatened its a split second choice of life or death and soometimes they make the wrong one. Put yourselves in their shoes. Lots of people are addicted to drugs and police are people too. They are not above temptations.  They are not super human and above the law like you seem to believe.

  • Good monologue, but you gotta show more of that cute Armenian chick...

  • This man not be the best show, but hats off to them for exposing (no pun intended) this to the public. Tasers are NOT the solution. Here in Canada they are exchanging the tasers they have for newer more powerful ones. I did the job WITHOUT use of a taser. I'm only 5'5" and 180. Not what you would call a giant and there was NEVER a need for anything other than using your brain. Sidearm was a VERY last resort. I see some confrontations with police that are just a joke! Can't do the job, QUIT!

  • did they taser him in the nuts? now that would kill!

  • FYI my uncle was one of those men on the ESU not the taserer but one of the guys in the apartment they all got in trouble for this and had to go back to training. If they waited to talk him down he would have jumped so they tase him i know the cop was stupid to tase him when he was on a building but still wat would u do

  • Cops have never been the brightest bulbs on the tree, but today they are quicker to pick fights.

    But ONLY when they know they can hurt people with little or no risk to their own safety.

  • WoW! They just murdered the man! I guess it wouldnt have helped if they waited and try to talk him down? Or after the fact maybe give him cpr? You fascist evil control freaks!!!!! Do you know more citizens in America are murdered by the police from tasers than police officer are murdered by criminals. Do the research. Homerboy488 you are the piece of shit. You fascist fuck!!!

  • Fuck you you inhuman piece of shit.

  • What are you guys stupid? You should know a cop for real and know the bullshit they have to put up with EVERY DAY! They don't taser enough! The dumbass deserved what he got. You act stupid you pay the consequences. Try living in another country where they chop off your hand for swiping a loaf of bread!

  • they chose that job dude they chose to deal with the dregs of society, so I can taser my boss if he pisses me off, or tase my kids if they become a fucking nuisance?

  • Try living in a civilized country (any country in western europe) where cops are not violent and manage to keep the crime rate incredibly low.

  • matteoec,

    Last time I checked crime in america wasn't incredibly low.

  • sex

  • @matteoec Western Europe also doesn't have the massive split in wealth that America does. That is the main cause of American crime and violence.

  • @matteoec yup yup your so much more civilized.

  • See if you feel the same when you or someone in your family has their first episode of a psychotic illness they didn't know they had. Your first can happen when you're as old as 70. Most people are lucky enough to be hospitilised, diagnosed and put on medication before they hurt themselves or others, and return to the person they were before the episode. This sort of illness is extremely common, and he was just one of the unlucky few injured at the hands of incompetent emergency service personel

  • ACAB!!!ACAB!!!ACAB!!!

  • murder

  • Nowhere near harsh enough Cenk. Those cops *killed* that man, and you think desk duty is appropriate. No wonder all the sociopaths are atracted to the police force, lok what they can get away with.

  • If I were responsible for cops, I would let them use a taser I wouldn't mind it. However, I'll let them decide whether it's appropriate to do in some situation by tasing each cop who uses a taser on a civilian that way they will think a thousand times before using it. As it is non-lethal force.

  • People: The new donuts were coming out, so they had to taze this guy so the pastries didn't get cold.

  • dude how stupid? who can you taser a person on a ledge...

    aren't this people suppose to be saving lives?

  • god damn cops fuck it up again. yay

  • you got to love cops this proves that they love us.

  • "Non-lethal, non-lethal. ZzzZzzZ" LMAO

  • This was just HORRIBLE. at 2:39 to 2:43 they kind of make a joke. Where she laughs. This is horrible. I AM SERIOUS. A TASER IS NOT FOR YOU TO JUST GO OUT and tase someone. ITS A VERY SPECIAL PIECE OF EQUIPMENT. Does anyone reallise how serious this is? Its to be used where otherwise a GUN WOULD. Not to just say get on the ground. NO GET ON THE GROUND. NO. ZAPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP­PPP. THIS IS REDICULOUS. They are now using the tasers TOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SOON!!!! I cannot stress this enough!! :(

  • how the heck...u tase some1 when their gonna commit suicide and their on the edge of a ledge....C PIGS r TRIGGER HAPPY....I areed what DUDE said.

  • FUCK THE POLICE

  • I always love it when people say "Fuck the Police", ooooo your telling off the "Man", don't you feel just so rebellious and hip lol. Yet when you get your ass jacked or beat, who do you go crying to? "Fuck the Police" right? LMAO!

  • It's when the police aren't doing their job that pisses people off. Police only serve to find, arrest, and help prosecute you.

  • I know, but to say "Fuck the police" is addressing all police, which is ignorant, saying "Fuck the corrupt police" is better :).

  • If you need help calling the police is the last thing you want to do.

  • ??? ok, so I should call some priests then right? Let God smite them. better yet, I'll just wait for spiderman's spidey sense to tingle, hell I'll even take Robin. LMAO!

  • Well for a start you can stop being an asshole. The chances of the cops helping you in a situation are slim to none. In our community we take care of our own problems. If this gone guy hadn't have phoned the cops (911) he would still be alive. And by the way, what is this about Robin and a priest? Do you have a thing for young boys and priests?

  • Asshole? lol I meant no offense, perhaps we just have a different sense of humor. Anyways, about the topic at hand, I still would STRONGLY suggest you call the police when in trouble, the neighborhood watch thing is good for small problems, but when you're dealing with armed robbery or a hostage situation, you shouldn't call a neighbor. Young boys? I'm not christian lol, or religious for that matter. And I only said Robin because he was the lamest superhero I could think of.

  • The cop who ordered the tasing of this man commited suicide 1 week after this tragedy occured.....

  • link or GTFO

  • holy crap guess you were right

  • Link!

  • Good.

  • the world can see their cowardness.... what an embarrassment to america- men using brute violence against innocent ppl in public. COWARD LOSERS

  • Somebody must be encouraging their loose use of it.

  • y the fuck would anyone think its a good idea to use a tazzer the a naked dude who is on a ledge. They obvious didn't have anything to break his fall. He will fall down n die if landed in a weird way like his neck or head (which did happen). if i were the cop i woulda refused based on the situation. people are stupid, n that tazer shit is like a toy to them like he said.

  • stupid cops

  • Stupid PIgs as always

  • Ok, "Meathead", although i agree that it was a bad idea to tase the suspect from the ledge. But it is my overall belief that the Taser has saved more lives than you people give credit for. And yes it has become a national slogan. "Dont tase me bro" because people wanna fight with the cops, Dont resist the police and you wont have to ride the lighting!!!! thants all. ")

  • here here, Cops dont just go around tasing people willy nilly. Dumb people do dumb people shit and get---guess what---- Tased.

  • Right so if someone does something stupid, it's fine for them to do is it?

  • didnt say what happened here was right, the cop was obviously an idiot. BUT most of the time people who get tassered are doing dumb people shit. Simple as that.

  • correction!!

    cop who tazed the guy killed himself few dayz later... -_-.

  • aw man this makes this story even more depresssing and unessesary

  • fuck man thats seriuosly sad..

  • fuck this guy, fuck all you people who call the Lt. a coward. im not trying to justify what he did was right. but when your fellow officers are being threatened. no matter what type of force it is, you take action. and becaues of this the Lt. killed himself. so fuck all you people who monday morning quarterback the the judgement. 21 years on the job i think he had a little expierence with this before

  • So your saying Lt. should have known better?

  • OMG he killed himself?? omfg. thats sad man the public should have went up to him and told him it wasnt his fault and that he did his job.. it would have stoped him from killing himself..

  • The coward cop didn't have the guts to face the music. Obviously it' a lot easier to send a man tumbling to his death then it is to face the consequences.

  • Just for clarity's sake, I meant the reporter was an idiot-

  • Hey asshole Have you walked a mile in a cops shoes? NO! Go Fuck yourself you piece of shit. Nice studio where did you film it in your mother's basement. The Cop admits he made a mistake and now he is dead. Choke on that you ass clown.

  • Oh, my bad. I didn't know that cop admited he made a mistake. I thought he didn't. That is what pisses most people off when a cop makes a very stupid mistake and as a result someone dies and that cop doesn't even take responsibility. Everything is fine though as I now know he did.

  • dude, the cop committed suicide 2 days later

  • this guy's an idiot

  • #1 Bloomberg is trying to get reelected. He is going to get behind this becuase he cant get behind the cops. There are only 40,000 cops and its not a large enough group to get behind. He was blaming the cops saying it was intentional rather than the accident that it was

    #2 Kelly is trying to keep his spot with Bloomberg and was pressuring this cop to take the blame

    #3 Scumbag Al Sharpton was about to come out of the woodwork. Tawana Brawley. Thats all i have to say to that fuckin hate monger

  • the cop saw he made a mistake and felt bad for it so took his life, maybe he thought that it was only right because he took someones else's life. now he must stand before the creator...poor guy shouldn't have done it.

  • Some bull.....a naked man with a lightbulb versus a policeman with a bulletproof vest on and a helmet?!....no guns anywhere...absolutely ridiculous and immature....it was not that serious....he was gonna get down eventually......

  • They should put timers on these things so they can only work once in 5 minutes. At least that'll stop the multi zaps they do for fun and make them think twice about when they do use it.

  • The cops are all running round like a naughty 13yr old with his first BB gun.

    They can't be bothered with Control & Restraint or negotiation, just go zap THEY LOVE IT!!!!!

  • yup, cop did the right thing today, blew his brains out

  • Not cool.

  • fuck you asshole. that cop's kids don't have a father anymore

  • The cop who ordered the tasering killed himself today. Sad

  • the guy was naked and yelling...big deal?

    was it really necessary for the police and everyone to freak out and kill the man?

    his ding dong was hanging out...ppl were screaming like he was brandishing a GUN :p

  • "the police bum rush his house"

    omg cenk u crack me up

  • murder right there. nothing more, nothing less. thats murder.

  • take tasers away from cops

  • Absolutely right.

    Tazering is undo force in most situations but most cops now are too, lazy, stupid or untrained  to correctly assess this type of situation. The city should get it's ASS sued off for this one!

    Completely uneccesary.

    That nutjob didn't need to die.

  • The guy was mentally ill, it was just a matter of bigotry. That may sound ridiculous, but so was tasering a mentally ill man.

  • OMG why the hell would the cop taze the man on a ledge????

  • that guy needed an i love me jacket. not a vibrator from hell.

  • another brilliant act of cops. fuckin morons.

  • Why would you tase someone while they are 10 feet up in the air?! Fucking pigs!

    ...Don't tase me Bro!

  • They have to have a rule against tasing people on the edge of a building, and they stil do it. Just goes to show how the NYPD recruits the best and brighest.

  • Murder.

    Of course if you Taze in this situation the persom will fall the pavement with death being a highly probably outcome.

    Murder.

  • Only in America!

  • Perhaps some day Americans will realize that we are living in a police state with fascist "law enforcement" thugs acting as judge, jury and executioner.

  • NYC police kill again! Even with a taser.

  • they should be tried in a court of their peers.

  • American schools should start to teach common sense.

    What a moron.

  • Police officer are suppose tO be held to a higher standard but i know for a fact that 95 percent of them are all macho ego maniacs on power trips my whole family is involved civil service including fbi police cheif state officers almost every one in my family is..AND THEY ALL BREAK THE LAW and im not talking speeding im talking beating up prisoners robbing drunk guys that get arrested plus a lot more serious stuff that i wont mention DO NOT TRUST THEM!

  • The cop was mentally unstable.

  • welcome to the police state

  • DON'T TASE ME BRO!

  • I cant believe some of you on here. You guys saying he deserved it.. WTF?! How would you feel if one of your parents became senile, walked out naked onto a ledge and the cops tazed him/her and the same thing that happened here happened.. would you still think it was deserved :)? fucking idiots man, get a clue. It's a human life youre talking about, artards. not some fruitfly or something. omfg. please go off the internet cause being anonymous doesn't make it ok to act like a retard. damn..

  • You can keep going on that way all your want, trust me they are just to thick to get into, if you want to give them a message they need to be tazed themselves in dangerous situations.

  • That was a murder

  • true...it seems clear that use of this Taser weapon has gotten totally out of control.

    By the way, the Taser International company has plans to market more types of weapons using this technology including "riot control" weapons that are intended to fire 6 Taser missiles into a crowd simultaneously.

  • I know many officers(sounds like u have shares in the company) - of course cops like it - its easy to do and is no risk. Anyone who sez oh I think they are a good idea - lets taze u next time u have 1 too many and see how u like em now. When it is 10 or 20 against ONE u need this - I think NOT!

    Let common sense rule for once and get rid of these needless tasers......Bring back the BILLY CLUB lol.

  • I hope that cop feels good now that he's just murdered someone with a taser.

  • I know many officers, NONE of them are out saying lets tase this guy or jump the gun when it comes time to tase someone.

    Police dont call it "non-leathal". Its called "less leathal".

    In my opinion, tasers have helped saved lives thousands of times more than people have died from complications.

    Many of the people who suddenly die from being tased were under the influence of a drug such as , cocaine, pcp, metn. Officers dont have time to ask their medical history or drug usage.

  • 1937 - 1945 people in germany were just following orders too... this makes it right? how stupid are you

  • Sigh, I reiterate, people called the police to get the crazy man down from the building. He's down. Now you want to cry about it. Do it yourselves next time.

  • Yes, it is called MURDER, but again... everyone BUT American Civilians are ABOVE the LAW!

    I'm not paying my taxes anymore - this isn't America a Democracy anymore - its Little China or USSR. Fuck Fascism.

    I only pay my taxes in MY country, where democracy and freedom and fuckin' Civil Rights mean something.

    You can have your fucked up Dictatorship Bush Co. I quit.

  • I think a taser is a good tool, but it's just too easy to use, and makes the cop think less about other options. Its a quick fix to what otherwise would be a longer, more drawn out situation. The temptation to use it needs to be better regulated with more training.

  • cops are just way way out of control lately. I'm all for law and order but even nonlethal stuff like tazer or pepperspray or beanbag guns are for people who are violent or pose a threat to an officer.

    This guy was mental and needed medication and counseling. You don't just shoot him off the ledge because talking him down might take a few more minutes he's not a squirrel, I don't care what kind of "gun" or other force you are using. You get him off the ledge, and if falling you catch him.

  • I do not mind judging all cops. The field attracts people who are aggressive, prone to violence, and also defensive of order and the status quo, all characteristics of sociopaths.

  • He should still be thrown in jail for killing a man, it wouldn't be smart and fair to leave him walking the streets. Like i said before the boss should be thrown in jail too.

  • How fucked!

    Desk duty for killing a man?

    WOW - who is more mentally challenged - those cops or the victim?

    MORE INDEPENDENT POLICING OF THE POLICE!!!

    Dont tase me asshole

  • My 80 year old grandmother has even said that the police are taser happy she is also a widow of a police officer

  • I agree tasers are being used "way to much".

    It is a known fact that people die of heart attacks and so on from being tased. So if there is no danger to police and others, there is absolutly no reason to use them.

    Many people over the past few years in Canada have went into cardiac arrest after being tased.

    If there's 4 cops and one suspect "on the floor" resisting arrest, I don't see the need to tase. Yet cops tase "everytime" someone does not obey.

    If no one is in danger don't tase bro. :(

  • I watched other videos of this story.

    I mean really, what the hell were they thinking?

    Did they think he was going to come down like a leaf? Absolutly no danger to anyone....lets tase the guy and let him fall from 10'.

    The cops involved should be fired. These same guys have guns.

  • That cop and the others who followed his orders should be charged with negligent homicide as what would you think would happen if you tasered him.

    Oh and put him in gener