TASERED IN 23 SECONDS!!!!!!!!!! RIDICULOUS!!!!!!!!!!

Here is the video of Mr. Derrick, a motorist tasered by police from the Columbia Missouri police department after 23 seconds!! He was stopped for allegedly having no front license plate. He was tasered 23 seconds later. He asked why he was stopped - the policeman responded that he had no license (false - it was in the police officer's hand). The policeman signalled that he smelled marijuana (touched his nose - the other officer shook his head, indicating that he did not smell marijuana. Mr. Derrick was tasered, beaten, maced and arrested. Why? Resisting Arrest!!!!! His lawyer is filing suit and would appreciate your comments at sam.trapp@trapplaw.biz.

I am cadilac's attorney. This will be the only post I make. Just to get the ball rolling - I enjoy your commentary and am quite interested in the current "get rid of the taser issue.".

What if.........

The license plate was in the front window because the placeholder recently fell off?

Cadilac was pulled over by the same two officers several weeks before and arrested for having a warrant for his arrest when he had no warrant, was taken to the police station for booking, and then was released?

Cadilac was wondering why the officer would tell him he has no license, when his license was in the officer's hand?

Cadilac has no prior record except a high school altercation with another student?

There was no weapon or contraband of any kind discovered in the resulting search of the vehicle?

The policy of the CPD requires you to yell "Taser! Taser! Taser!" before deploying the taser?

--- My only comments on this blog will be as follows: I want to support good, tough police work. Unfortunately, 100% of the officers do not behave properly 100% of the time. We cannot be so foolish as to believe that everyone with a badge deserves to wear it. I have no doubt that these two officers are good people. I just question whether they have the objectivity and wisdom to wield the awesome power of the state without getting their feelings hurt. Officers should go out of their way to be the good guys, with good motives. If they wish to presume that every peson they deal with in their job is a "bad guy," fine. But they should go out of their way to de-escalate the already tense atmosphere of being stopped by the police, not escalate hostilities.

I believe the taser should NEVER be used to gain compliance. It should be used as a defensive weapon only. These are my beliefs and reasonable minds may disagree. John Stuart Mill opined that a persons liberty extends as far as that person wants it to, limited only when it bumps up against the liberty of another citizen. The duty of the State (in this case the police) is to step in when one persons liberty interferes with the liberty of another. Not to create another conflict.

We as citizens SHOULD question state actions that seem unreasonable. Thomas Jefferson stated that a little revolution is a good thing. It is. If the officers had treated Cadilac with a very small amount of respect, I believe they would have received it in return.

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[gnossticc]

@gat0rbball You are so simple minded, as if american cops were not thugs.

[MetalHeadKLR650]

Listen to all the sheeple, unless you are under arrest or you have given consent to search your vehicle you don't have to step out. Plus you don't get a taser out unless you are in danger or cannot physically restrain someone. This is abuse plain and simple.

[YaWatBruv]

fucking scumbags

[HiroshiYamamoto123]

I.D. is not a drivers lic dumb fuck and yes you will strp out of the car and get fucked up nigger

[TheJasperkitty]

Screaming like a 6 year old girl with a bug in her hair.

[MetalHeadKLR650]

Yes they can ask, but judging by the officers behavior it was not a lawful order but an attempt to extract the driver in an aggressive manor. If you feel you are under any type of threat even from a police officer you can refuse an order. People don't understand, you have the right not to be assaulted by anyone including cops. The guy won 50g's, so the cops were wrong. Innocent until proven guilty, cops know they can't be overly aggressive, and they learned that terrible lesson in 2011.

[98gper]

@MetalHeadKLR650 Incorrect..... Police can ask you and/or your passengers to step out of the vehicle at any time during a traffic stop... Look it up. Also, the police don't need consent to search a vehicle if they smell Marijuana. Maybe a little research would be beneficial to you before you start making posts like that.

[ChapterLP]

wtf and you say to us german people we're violent?

[Saxxonknight]

It appears to me that these cops were looking for an excuse to light him up. The first pull over it appears they tell him to pull off the road. Then they come up to the car, but unless he had produced a weapon, why did they violently go after him?

If as you say they had his license and asked why he didn't have one, that is a plain effort to falsify evidence.

My gut feeling - he was jacked up for having a white girl in the car with him.

[tsharpmac420]

He got 50k for this shit stltoday(dot)com

[rataMacue22]

Prolly the same thugs that were involved in shooting the dog in front of the wife and child in a raid that yielded a half-smoked bowl of weed.

[FyrsydeChat]

Post from Kansas City Star on Monday 1/16

Columbia man wins $50,000 in police Taser lawsuit