Police: Tasered Baseball Fan 'Mentally Unstable'

[Massefreak1]

man die neger werbung am anfang geht mir auf die eier

[GeneralMatte117]

Omg this man is a menace to society ! booze and swearing................. That's a hockey game for you with more crazy shit! In canada if a cop used a

tazer for that petty reason he'd be looking for a new job.

[ihatethiswebsitefag]

the police were well in the rules, by the way , (the taser is used when apprehending ANY PERSON IS DEEMED not safe for OFFICER SAFETY ) sorry AZ taser training community. Also since you have been through training... Sir, you would know that even if there was 36 police there, that you would still taze him, before hands on, so please continue your class... brother...? I guess... if your not a fake...

[ma42167]

Using profanity is a crime now? DAMN

[xEdddie]

@ma42167 Around Children! Do you even know what Profanity IS? Its Cussing, Saying Racial Things like Nigger, Jew, Stuff like that Would you like someone to do that around your children?

[HuskerSeaofRed]

Many cops are mentally unstable too such as the one with the taser.

[Metropolis3003]

Resist arrest and the police will inflict EXTREME pain upon you! Pain, torture, police are using it.

[puplover62]

Ah yes, another classic case of someone "causing a disturbance" and "resisting arrest". This is the typical police excuse for arresting someone they don't want to fairly deal with. Judging from the video, he didn't look like he was resisting or making a scene; they could have nicely escorted him out w/out the use of force. So sick of this abuse of authority. It happened to me, and the police can say ANYTHING against you, and if you don't have video, they'll get away with it.

[Ryan120420]

Using profanity in a stadium is a crime?

[joesophie90]

Don't lie and make up things u stupid police. This man ought to sue the ass off your police force, There are ways of dealing with someone who refuses to co-operat in other ways. In the UK, our police can easily get someone on the floor, without resorting to taser. Your police are weak and not fit to be police officers. Shame on you for treating an ex viet like this.

[mf2kdrbombay]

that guy isnt mentally unstable... thats the 72 year old guy who beat the shit out of a black guy on a bus. Vietnam Tom i think his name is.

[videovaultault]

"Using profanity in the coliseum" - is not against the law! This man may have exercised bad judgement by being overtly loud with his foul language, but he still maintains his 1st amendment rights to say what he wants. Maybe these kids and parents need to just grow some fucking skin!

[eeelz1]

useless cops...taser the guy for swearing?? get fucked!

[wilsondylanmccartney]

The cops abused this guy. They should've been punished for it.

[jiafjioawefjio3f9034]

Fuck this. I've been to TASER International in Scottsdale, AZ and taken the LE training class.

The Taser instructors specifically say OVER AND OVER, use the Taser as a last-resort, when there are no other reasonable options except lethal force.

These PIGS don't know how to use their toys. Officers are trained to apprehend a person. 6'1 is not as huge as this jackass is trying to portray, and the man is 67 years old.

How many cops were in that video? Five. The Taser was NOT necessary.

[reallyneed2learn]

@jiafjioawefjio3f9034

You have no idea what your talking about. And using a TASER as use of force is just one step greater from using verbal commands. They tried verbal, tried hands-on, TASER was next. Oh but you have been to TASER classes and im sure you already know this.

[THEMASTEROFYOU2000]

hahahahah ya'l sooooooo gettin sued!!!!!

[emphero100]

Oh and not to mention he's in psych ward now, they sentenced him to fucking death. He may be fine without the three butt-plugging badge holding faggots walking up and demanding him to do something.

[M1thotyn]

@emphero100 I love that comment. Being sent to the psych ward is practically a sentence to death. As soon as he got there he was drugged to the eyeballs with neuroleptics and could be held there indefinitely.

[emphero100]

Fucking piggies, no one wants to be a cop because everyone fucking hates you. Why not strive for me and end up enslaving humans like the rest of your government?

[jmb94117]

"...getting in a fight with an individual like this is not in an officer's best interest". What a ridiculous, shallow shill you are, sir.

[autarchicflux]

The guy seems mentally unstable from watching the video, but even if he IS, that doesn't justify the use of a taser. To say that police are too eager to use them in the line of duty would be an understatement...there were THREE of them there, and this man was 67. They should have exhausted all possible options and called for backup before resorting to a potentially lethal technique. The ONLY circumstances in which use of a taser is warranted are those in which a gun would normally be used.

[goldenvaz10]

All this jerk does is make excuses for the Oakland police's bad decision to use a taser on a 67 year old guy...Criminal charges should be filed against the cop who just couldn't wait to try his taser out...Ridiculous!

[senhorpuerco]

fuck you fucking cops, he was using bad words around kids..ok

well showing kids violence like this is really

healing to them sure

fuck you fucking cops apologize to everybody instead of talking about how big that guy is, simply said NO NO you don't go tase in situations like this

[starlite2991]

FUCK YOU OAKLAND POLICE!! FUCK YOU!! Cops are such assholes!!

[REALfreaky]

THATS MY EPIC BEARD GUY :D

[b5Bartender]

"Determined to be mentally unstable"

"We're still looking to press charges."

[Rusfi16]

i might be a stark raving lunatic as well if I was a die hard A's fan these past few years.

Beane destroyed the team.Now they stink.

[rorytfenwick]

Someone mentioned this very early in the thread, but the "fan" there is Tommy Brusso. If you have ever been around him (and most people commenting probably never have), you would know how mentally unstable he is. He's a very large man, not that old and prone to violence. Most of the time he is a stark-raving lunatic. Anyway, the point is, if you are attempting to defend him by painting him as some old, feeble unfortunate man, spend an afternoon with him. Your attitude will change.

[snoobeagle]

There's almost always a rational story behind what the public perceives as a "blatant overuse of force by authorities."

[konigtigertank]

"Authorities" don't use enough force on creeps out here; and repeat criminal offenders should be sterilized or executed. We tolerate too much for these

lowlifes, that's why we're goin down the

toliet. We need to go back to Roman ways

and have public executions. It is morally reprehensible to pay hundreds of billions every years to house repeat offenders.

And, I like the "tent city" they have in Maricopa Co. AZ. for lesser offenders.

We need to make potential criminals afraid of prision...

[novajigsaw]

I totally agree, bring back excecution, not this bullshit slap on the wrist jobs. That ain't going to stop some dick head from doing it again, is it?

[konigtigertank]

The reason we have all the gangs and other assorted criminal lowlifes degenerating society and ruining peoples lives is a failed criminal "justice" system.

The only real way to make it a success is to dump christian "moral" ethics and bring back Roman law and punishment for repeat criminal scum! It blows me away to watch shows like "gangland" and "lockup", "the first 48"; to imagine we put up with and then "pay" to keep these worthless bastards behind bars; it is a national scandal!

[konigtigertank]

We need to make criminal types Afraid to go to prision Big time; and the degenerates that have no fear of it, good;

how much does a bullet behind the ear cost????

Back in Bonnie and Clydes day, criminals feared prision, as the cocksuckers should!

[novajigsaw]

Make them suffer. Scum bags.

[amazonkid]

@konigtigertank How about we make the criminals that steel trillions of dollars from hard working americans afraid of prison? We our leaders and elite are above the law, expect more lawlessness elsewhere in society.

[konigtigertank]

@amazonkid

I agree.

We NEED revolution.

[algahead]

say a cop comes up to u for cursing at a baseball game. All u have to do is say ur sry and that u wont do it again. When the cops leave, start cursing again. Not rocket science. But this idiot taunts the police and curses at them. He even resists arrest. I really think he was asking to get tased.

[chocolatemilk2551]

im pretty sure he was drunk and thats why he acted like that

[calichowda]

he was drinking at a baseball game and using profanity well i better watch out the next time i go to Fenway they police might taser me too this is ridiculous!

[adiosparasiempregord]

The man in this clip, Thomas Bruso, is well-known in San Francisco, mentally unstable and extremely dangerous. Known as "Tom Slick" or "Vietnam Tom", he has attacked and choked people and spent a lot of time in jail. He's very strong, angry, belligerent, violent and unafraid of police. He could hurt or kill innocent people and should be locked up for his own good and for the good of society. I don't generally support using tasers, but this time, the police actually performed a public service.

[stone8675309]

sometimes a spad is a spad.

[strakallah]

@stone8675309 What's a spad?

[stone8675309]

@strakallah it's a sign I shouldn't use a computer after 5 beer.

[MY1950COUPE]

Lawsuit pending,,,

[GeminiAzules]

Using profanity at a baseball game? NO WAY!

[EUR3541]

Fuck everybody who hates cops. Everyday they do their best to keep YOUR asses safe. They put their lives on the line every time they put on a uniform, and for what? So everybody can talk shit about them?

The nerve of you people.

[Sylv0r]

fuck you, sir. clearly you don't know how much of an asshole police can be. yeah sure some police can be nice but when you run into a dickish cop, you will live by "fuck the police". i'm not trying to sound hard either, so don't even say that.

[alanpgoodwin]

The nerve of YOU, sheep boy! I've seen and experienced first-hand the malignancy towards the public in police "training" and the ego-driven low-intelligence filth that they recruit actively to enforce compliance with their corporate "policy". Cops aren't our friends any more. If you can't see that, you're already too far down the conditioning funnel to be classified as a man any more. You're government property and happy to be that way. The rest of us aren't.

[CALICOTV301]

They don't keep SHIT safe but themselves and their family!

Protecting someone is ARRESTING ACTUAL criminals and tazering some poor old man at a baseball game.

To the cops, you are always going to be the suspect!

SOOOOOOOOOOOOO...

No one HATES COPS...they hate the illicit people that hide behind those badges. Who's having problems at home so they batter you because of it.

Fuck the police! They are tax leeches.

Arrest a man, only so he has to pay $500bail and go to court.

[Nerstow]

they spend more of their time enforcing draconian drug laws enslaving their own people to make money for law enforcement and prisons.

[coolwater1]

Back in the 30's and 40's they would have clubbed him over the head a few times each with there billie clubs until he fell down disoriented. today they use tazers.

6 of one half a dozen of the other.

[breannabanxxx]

serves him right...u don't comply then u gotta expect consequences.

[alanpgoodwin]

Think about what you just wrote for the whole world to read. You disgust me.

[CALICOTV301]

Where didn't he comply?

He did...at 1:14 his hands are in cuffs.

If you mean the hand gesture a second before...that was to the guy in green...when people explain, we use hand gestures...it's part of communication.

At the same time, the cop was grabbing his left...he was into that with the guy in the green...but a second later, he put his hands forward.

It's done.

Now here comes Rookie Roger to shock the guy out of the cuffs.

[RSnelli]

Everyone hates the OPD, the "tough guys" who want street action go over to Oakland to apply for jobs. Perfect spot for a sadist.

[eddiebelfast]

Only in America!!!

[RSnelli]

Amazing there is a law against using profanity in the Coliseum?

Are you insane or just Nazis?

[79Sarwar]

Dont forget that the police are revenue collectors.

[ninjaitus]

Last time I checked Tazers are to be used as a method for non-lethal self defence!! Why is it that being a lazy cop give you the right to tazer somebody, there were three cops for crying out loud!

[alanpgoodwin]

In fact, the "TAZER" (trademark) is manufactured, marketed and sold as "less-lethal", not non-lethal. This is because TAZERs can and has killed.

[dfcvda]

fuck the police

[mord04]

Once again, the liberal idiots who comment on subjects they know nothing about should climb back up their Berkeley tree house and smoke a joint and eat energy bars .... oops, that's right ..the trees are all cut down. BooHoo!

[NeoStarr]

I like that. You could have contributed something to the discussion but instead you took the low road and resorted to name calling, thus making yourself out to be yet another ignorant right wing ass.

Deep cover liberals FTW, dude. I salute you.

[nihonjin44]

hahahaha

[seanmkeane]

This police spokesman is full of it. He claims the guy weighed 280; at the jail, they said he was 225 pounds. Pretty big difference.

Also, Officer Cardoza (the guy with the taser) just got a $30,000 judgment against him for using excessive force on a suspect, and then fabricating a story afterward. He choked and arrested a nursing home worker (because he was black), and then claimed the worker had committed assault. Total cost to the city of Oakland and the department? $180,000.

[MoondogMayne]

He was sitting right behind me shortly before the incident. I thought 280 was a conservative estimate. He looked over three bills to me.

[monkayheyho]

Watch the video where it shows HIM whoopin' some young kids ass.

[dxbrbnkhd]

Wow, charges for using profanity. Just wow. I didn't know it was a f*****g crime to swear.

[algahead]

actually it is a crime to resist arrest. All he had to do was stop swaring until the cops left, then continue swaring again

[Nerstow]

they were ejecting him from the game. security doesn't send the cops in to ask you to stop cussing. get the facts straight.

[cryptsub]

The moral - any big guys should beware of cops with tasers - your size is an excuse for the cops to zap you.

[seanmkeane]

They're going to charge with the "crime" of using profanity in the Coliseum? Good work, OPD. Way to keep us safe.

[R2Ro925]

they were just going to kick him out for using profanity and bringing in alcohol into the stadium. That is against the rules. He shouldn't have resisted.

[goonercrew08]

Good job Oakland police dept. Punk will think twice before breaking the law again.

[BiteHunter]

Give me a fucking break. God damned white bigots just wanted to punish another black man in California. When are you asshole California policemen ever going to get over yourselves. C'mon Mexicans: take back California and taser all the white guys for being baaad girls.

[SilkOlive]

ok, so the guy was cursing and drinking? at a baseball game? sounds pretty normal to me. If he was at an elementary school I'd say the cops should have stepped in, but at a baseball game? really? Or if he was making threats or throwing punches at other fans...but seriously? drinking? and using profanity? at a baseball game? really?

[the2012report]

I hate cops.

[Snark17]

Police will taser you in the back just for the hell of it, even if you are already being handcuffed, as this video shows....

[exacerbatedtaboo]

6 1 280 pounds isn't that big. I'm 6 foot and I'm not really that tall at all. Besides. What does height have to do with it when there is more than one officer and they are all trained in hand to hand combat?. Fuck them

[Docthewrench]

EVERY notice how cops always are right and everyone else is wrong. EVen if the COP is wrong they are right period. Sure glad they are MY CIVIL servant and work for me I am the boss.

[bettypro]

I am so glad you finally figured that out.

[metalhed187]

FUCK THE COPS!

[DocuJunk]

Tasers are weak. Look at these cops, big built and yet they need to send vaults through the guys body to detain him. How pathetic!

[AfricanMadman]

Well, they need those muscles to carry the half-conscience lawbreaker to the car though...

[BinkieMcFartnuggets]

Drunk, screaming profanities around children, sounds like your average fan to me. If they want to deem this guy mentally unstable they ought to construct a mental institute in all MLB stadiums.

[MichaelSwg]

Good for the cops, they could of caught him from falling though LOL.

[cool70200]

cops being having to put up with all kinds of crap, maybe they should get the athlete's salaries eh

[clearwater04]

good job

[starfireucsd]

man, who knows where he could be right now? at a secret location being tortured probably...

[7jerryv7]

The police had the authority to ask him to leave. He chose to escalate the situation. He got what he deserved.

[internalcreampie]

why is he so anal?

[thishereguitar]

1. First they taser the guy and then they make sure to point out that "it was determined" he is "mentally unstable" which of course they're experts on.

2. I have to think that, pre-taser, cops handled cases like this without resorting to physical assault.

3. If you get tased, pretend you're going into a seizure. Stay in it for 15, 20 minutes. Then hire a good lawyer and sue the heck out of the cops. That'll make 'em think twice about physical assault.

[swordofisis]

That's crap. There were three of them. They could have taken him to the ground without the TASER.

[bigbrotheronsky]

Nice, now cops use taser as is usual in a slaughterhouse.

[MadDogMeh]

Cops eat, drive and ticket, people eat drive and get tickets.

Circle of life.

[tomastomas11]

do he is sayin the cop is a pussy?

[chapmando2007]

Which is worst the taser or the price of the ticket LOL

[kriseddie86]

the dude talking there defo wants putting away with a taser

[XratedBarbie]

Daamn if i tased every adult that cussed in front of me when i was a kid

-_-

[MishuTaste]

He sure was sane enough to buy a ticket to a baseball game.

[Slapnuts6931]

I wish I was a cop. I would go around tasing retards all day long. it would never get old. cops-1, drunk tardo-0. lol

[residentevil808]

wwhatever cops are good at eat donuts

[bandboy3000]

yea they were in the right this time

[c3t1f13dgoon]

DONT TASE ME BRO!!!! lol

[JonRut101]

Good for the cops!!! they did the right thing!!!!