Taser Brutality in Salt Lake City Courtroom

Mentally disabled pro se plaintiff tased to unconsciousness by bailiffs.

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• TASER
• tazer
• courtroom

[TruthInjector]

This very old man was trying to have his say regarding some terrible wrong that had been done to him. A decent and civil justice would have given him a clear statement of warning. He was clearly complying with the arrest and not fighting. He was simply making a clear statement that he had been further wronged. They shot so much electricity through him that they put him into a coma. It is a terrible crime of repression and torture.

[worldblogger911]

@TruthInjector, thank you for commenting. Sadly, everything you wrote is exactly right. The professor never got a chance to finish reading his complaint against BYU, the bad guys never got punished, and the judge and the bailiffs took advantage of their judicial immunity and kept their jobs. The professor, on the other hand, can never work again, as his brain is half damaged. I wonder how many of the players in this fiasco of a lawsuit can sleep at night.

[ltrich50]

@613maccabee try and follow along: This whack job defied a judges lawful order to stop using profanity in his courtroom. The deputies were ordered to take him into custody and he resisted.

As for the coward remark, I've worked in jails and penal institutions for most of my adult life. Have you? No, sitting on your ass playing a first-person shooter and picking your fat ass doesn't count.

[worldblogger911]

@ltrich50, I think you are missing the point. The man was not resisting, neither is he a criminal. There was absolutely no reason for the bailiffs to use their tasers eight times. Please do not take this the wrong way, but your experience in penal institutions adds no valuable insight in this case simply because it isn't applicable. The professor is a law-abiding citizen who was trying to sue some mormon leaders who abused their power and ultimately cause his mental breakdown.

[whyberb]

quite sicken..he was obviously not violent and a humans naturally reaction to being manhandle by that many men would to be resist....im sure they made him pay for the medical bills

[worldblogger911]

@whyberb Yes, saving face is more important than justice in Utah. This BYU professor (the plaintiff) is just one of the victims of the system. Both the judge and the bailiffs claimed some courtroom immunity, so the man had to not only pay for his hospitalization and treatment after the accident but for an on-going treatment ever since. Power makes people not care; it erodes their scruples.

[salers2]

stop taser use now! taser international, the company who sells these devices to police/citizens are the ones who test the products. of course they are going to say their safe! cops use this as a first resort now. tasering women, children (yes its happened in florida!), unarmed people, elderly. what a bunch of sissy cops

[VJnumber1]

If they had just let the guy finish his statement and blow off steam everything would have been fine. They did not have to escalate the situation. You can see they pounced on him like they couldn't wait to try out their tasers, like it's a big kick for them to push the envelope of their power against this bi-polar guy. Really creepy. Just because he said "bullshit", and the context was perhaps not an exageration.

[imrightyourwrong4eva]

I dont get it.... 5 men against one... and they taze him because they cant get cuffs on him... wow... I would be screwed... i have a shoulder problem right now... cant get my left arm back all the way... would i have been tazed too... in that case a one armed man would just be shot im guessing... because we all know you 5 big strong men against one slightly foulmouth angry but logical man couldnt have just walked him to another room to cool off... cuffs were realy needed.

[TruthInjector]

Really sick. From the standpoint of Utah we all saw a very extensive support of Bush/Cheney by these people, supposedly Christian but they couldn't have read one single word of Jesus' vital messages to us. This was a terrible crime against all of us. Reconsider any pending vacations in Salt Lake City.

[superlativeOFgood]

Five men holding one isn't enough, you have to shock him??

[bubthegreat1]

@worldblogger911 The guy was verbally angry and it was escalating. The judge thought it best to call it a day, and let the guy cool off, which was a prudent call if you listen to the guy's tone. Once the judge orders the man arrested, whatever force is needed to arrest him is used. Whether it was a bad call or not, it's NOT on the officers that were following the judge's order, but on the judge IF it was deemed a bad call. Officers are protected because they were following a judge's order.

[gobbly1337]

@ltrich50 yeah, I don't see where you make the call that he was resisting. Just because someone disobeys a judges order doesn't mean he is fair game to taze, or really go beyond the actions necessary to put him in cuffs. He easily let his hands be placed behind his back, he wasn't straining, and was surrounded by 5 officers who all seem to be trying to grab him in the same place together, but can't figure out why they can't get a guy not resisting in cuffs...

[ltrich50]

@Laid2Rest6661 Isn't it interesting that I am the one with a f@cked up sense of reality when I am the only one who understands the meaning of a lawful order given by a judge in a courtroom. I do hope I'm in the courtroom when you and the worldblogger decided to resist arrest and they light you up with 50K volts. Give it a try. Please.

[Laid2Rest6661]

@ltrich50 You are clearly extremely uneducated and have an extremely fucked up sense of right and wrong. Go back to school.

[Garudanime]

fk usa, sick minds...