COPS IN NUDE TASER SLAY - BROOKLYN DEATH PLUNGE

COPS IN NUDE TASER SLAY
BROOKLYN DEATH PLUNGE AFTER 2ND-STORY JOLT

Police fired a Taser at a naked Brooklyn man armed with only a fluorescent light tube yesterday, sending him falling to his death from a second-floor ledge after he went on a 40-minute rant.

Iman Morales' mom begged cops not to hurt her son, telling them he's sick - then watched in horror as he plunged from the top of the roll-down gate on which he'd been perched.

An Emergency Services officer, acting on the orders of his boss, fired at the 35-year-old man at around 2 p.m., as he waved the 8-foot fluorescent light tube, police sources said.

"His body froze up and he fell face-first," said Sean Johnson, who witnessed the drama at 489 Tompkins Ave. in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

Morales, who crashed 10 feet to the pavement, died a few hours later at Kings County Hospital.

Asked if police followed the proper protocol for using a Taser, NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said, "That's being reviewed."

Amid his mostly unintelligible rant, Morales was heard yelling, "You're going to kill me. I'm going to take everyone with me."

He also screamed, "I'm going to die. You're all going to die with me."

Morales first emerged hanging out a third-floor window after a blowup with his mother at around 1 p.m., witnesses said.

Twenty minutes later, he climbed the fire escape to the fourth floor, where he tried to force his way into a neighbor's apartment.

"He tried to come into my window and I ran out," said 40-year-old Tonya Wright.

"He said, 'Let me in.' I told him, 'I'm not letting you in.' "

Morales then headed to the second floor and screamed to the crowd, which included his frantic mom.

"She was saying, 'No! No! Don't hurt him. He is sick,' " Wright said.

With police shouting for him to get down, Morales made his way to a ledge above a the gate.

"Walk down now! Move down!" the police can be heard shouting to him on video.

He then picked up the light tube and waved it in the air before jabbing cops who had climbed out of the windows above.

"When he was poking the cop, people were laughing," Johnson said.

He refused orders from the officers and continued his incoherent tirade.

Finally, one of the ESU cops on the street shot him with the Taser.

"He just fell face first," said witness Sean Brown. "People were screaming and yelling. It was wrong."

It was unclear what set off the episode, but, said Johnson, "once he started hitting the cop with that pole, that's when it turned serious."

Morales had one prior arrest, for a Manhattan petit larceny.

"This is very out of character," said the building's superintendent, Charlene Gayle, 31.

"Nice guy, clean cut, well kept, never irrational. Didn't have irrational behavior."

September 25, 2008
Source: nypost.com
Reported By DARRYL HARRISON, JOHN DOYLE, JAMIE SCHRAM, ERIC LENKOWITZ and LARRY CELONA

***UPDATE: October 6, 2008***

NY officer kills self after fatal stun gun case

NEW YORK (AP) — A police lieutenant committed suicide Thursday, days after he ordered another officer to fire a stun gun at a naked, distraught man who then fell to his death, police said.

The body of Lt. Michael Pigott, a 21-year police veteran, was found in a police locker room at a former airfield in Brooklyn, dead apparently of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, said Paul Browne, deputy commissioner for public information. He used a weapon that was not his, police said.

October 6, 2008
Reported By COLLEEN LONG
Source: The Associated Press

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[nictamer]

So what do you suppose happens when someone standing on a ledge is tased? He falls, that's what happens. Children age 3 and up understand that much, but that's too intellectual for cops and yourself, I gather.

[Cole351]

what the fuck did they think would happen tasering him on a ledge obviously he was going to to fall far enough to hurt himself and in this occasion kill him, these knucklehead cops should be put in jail

[IzakExperimentation]

@neil7025 it doesn't work like that, it wasn't a closed circuit

[drumheadcircle]

I'm so pissed off about this! What sexist creeps. If that was a naked hot chick they would've been nicer.

[drumheadcircle]

I hope that Mom sues and teaches them a lesson. I have a clever trick for someone like that- do what he's doing- strip naked and say"Now were brothers- I'm so embarassed- aren't you embarassed too?"

[JustMyHonestOpinion]

Oh how damn stupid. There's a good reason to sue. Come on blue, use your heads.

[Alphoamega150]

@bxlxix69 So where would you be without the cops??? Muggin' rapin' killin' each other.....Oh wait, your dumb black ass's already is.

[neil7025]

How come the light bulb he was carrying didn't light up after getting zapped?

[FTWEVERYONE]

First of all the guy was Emotionally fouled up,and even if all that happened was he fell on the ledge and NOT the sidewalk,I think he would Eventually WOULD have,due to his mind NOT really knowing what the jolts meant.