When you see someone in a nice car with a small baby and a pregnant wife, don’t you tend to think that these are probably decent people?

When Gardner (the cop) told Massey (the driver) to get out of the car, Gardner actually looked frightened…he moved quickly (almost ran) to his car to put his clipboard down so he could pull out his taser to protect himself. That was the part that really blew me away…how frightened this cop was! And frightened by a young family man at that.

Then, as Massey was walking by him (totally unaware of the mental state of this cop), Gardner immediately draws his taser (a PROVEN lethal weapon)…what heroism! What bravery!

Then, completely dumbfounded by the actions of this “screw-loose” cop, Massey starts to retreat back to his vehicle…even placing his hands in his pocket as an instinctual move to show that he means no harm to the cop…of course, the cops spin this in a way to “justify” Gardner’s next act, which was to deliver a potentially lethal dose of electricity into Massey (the family man with a young baby and pregnant wife). Massey might have a weapon in his pocket…Gardner has to make an Oh-so-quick decision…pure spin to protect their own criminally liable public employee.

Gardner should be fired and then prosecuted for endangering the welfare of the traveling public and attempted murder! His supervisors should be investigated and any mentally unfit public employees should be fired as well!

This case reminds me of the one in California in 1998:

“Coroner Charges Police ‘Overkill’:
Los Angeles Times Monday, July 26, 1999 Home Edition Section: Metro Page: B-1

San Bernardino County official speaks out on Hawthorne case that left man
dead. Relatives have filed suits against authorities, who said suspect was
‘definite threat.’;

By: EDWARD J. BOYER TIMES STAFF WRITER
By the time they stopped firing, Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies,
Hawthorne police and California Highway Patrol officers had shot Michael
William Arnold 106 times.

Arnold, 39, was struck seven times in the head and neck, 50 times in the
torso and dozens of times in other parts of his body. An autopsy found that
at least 55 of the wounds were serious enough to be fatal.

Bullets also flew through the Hawthorne neighborhood near 118th Street and
Prairie Avenue, across the street from York Elementary School, where Arnold
was shot.

One round ripped through the outer wall of an apartment building two blocks
away and continued through a bedroom wall, coming to rest on a bunk bed
next to a sleeping teenager. Two other children slept in the bedroom.”
(The man who was shot 106 times was insane and had only an air (BB) pistol.)

Police are the lowest level of the power structure.As a result the bar is set pretty low for who is acceptable to do the job. The pool to choose from is pretty watered down like a sport that expands too quickly the bar gets lowered to fill the openings. We are being told by too many politicians we are out of control and more cops is the answer. The fact is our government is in a state of anarcy not the people. This rash of taser incidents over the last couple of years is proof of that. Administered by cops who are either too eager to exercise power over someone or are too afraid to exercise proper judgment.I do believe tasers when used with proper judgment do save lives on both sides but our so called protectors are out of control and need to be reeled in. If the government will not do this a scared public will have no choice but to do it themselves.

“They were pretty direct,” Davenport said. “One talked about putting a bullet in his head.”
And rightly so! This has to stop!!

Jesus he tased him over a stinkin speeding violation for crissakes. It’s not like the guy was zooming down the highway endangering himself, other drivers or his family. The use of force was totally inappropriate for the situation being dealt with. But that’s the mentality of theses cops today. I know, my dad is a cop and i’ve personally listen to these idiots pump themselves up and instigate eachother to “zap the scumbags if they don’t follow your orders”.

All that cop had to do is show the kid the sign and show him the radar and take a little extra time to deal with the situtation on a human level. These cops think it’s cool to punk you and make you feel like a twit and if you dare attempt to impede their ego in the slightest, they will deal with you by calling all their buddies to gang up on you and everytime they inflict pain and you twitch then that’s resisting and they hurt you more and then add the icing on the cake with a nice heaping helping of 50,000 volts to your body.

I hear people say most cops are good, blah blah blah…i’ve listened to these douchebags BS among themselves and in my opinion, most are scumbags!

Only crack the window approximately 1/16 of an inch, no more.
Never get out of the car. Call the police and say you believe this person to be an impersonator.

And why don’t cops ever ‘pull over’ people properly. To have an involutary stop, the police need to be in front of you, not behind you.

Get bullet proof glass installed cause if you don’t roll down your windows they bust them 90% of the time with objects like battons or their flashlights.
It might accually be handy to have a hidden camera mounted on your windshield visor and a recorder in the trunk so you have some sort of proof that the police assaulted YOU when you go to court.

I they can have dash cams so can you.

Unfortunately, this officer is a member of a brotherhood of like-minded individuals, and these people have a strict agenda to follow. Internal Affairs, who does the investigation of these incidents, are also members of that same brotherhood. So, needless to say, their investigation will be biased in their results.

If I saw the video right, this officer also tasered the motorist in the back.

Also, the one question posed was why do officers stand behind instead of in front. That reason is because of their safety, and another reason is that the driver would have turn around if there was to be a confrontation to be had. These are cowardly moves, in my opinion. On top of that, if the officer felt he could not handle the situation without a confrontation, he should have had backup called, before he even got out of his cruiser. Which he did not. The other officer showed up long after the confrontation.

The tasering of anybody, by an officer, is unnecessary, unless there is a physical confrontation, And I saw no physical confrontation at any time. This is nothing more than an issue of control of the masses, and using force at their own convenience.

This officer should have to be brought before a Grand Jury investigation for direct violation of Citizens Rights and prosecuted under color of US Constitutional Law, in my opinion.

And you all thought Randy Weaver was crazy.

Yes. This is a bit crazy. I think we need to start carrying tasers ourselves to even the odds a little bit Or at least get a 600,000 volt stun gun like I have. These cops need to be held accountable for what they do to citizens not posing a threat of any kind. Especially when someone is handcuffed and then tasered is just gross mis-conduct and all officers who tase someone who is not posing a threat NEED to be brought up on charges for assault with a deadly weapon and found guilty when the video shows the truth. These cops they are hiring now days just don’t even give it a second thought. First thing they reach for is the taser and ask questions later. No matter whether you are disabled by being blind, deaf, paralyzed, or just elderly. It’s tase first and sort it out later, usually once they’ve pulled that trigger 10 more times, holding it down or 15-30 seconds at a time, and have killed the citizen. We need to be able to resist unlawful arrests and tasering, even if that means good citizens having their own tasers or stun guns to use against the police if need be. “Well, the officer was posing a threat to me.” The taser/bullet-proof vests are a good idea too, but it’s a sad thing when we have to wear those just to go pick up a gallon of milk at the super-market, but is realistic because it could end up saving your life from a trigger-taser happy cop pumped up on steroids. It just makes me sad that this is the kind of police state we live in and thinking of the kinds of things we may have to do to protect ourselves from they’re tyranny, because the police motto is no longer “To protect and serve.” It should be “To tase and laugh maniacally with our other fellow steroid-using cops.” Tasing someone is just easier for cops to get away with because they have stricter protocols for using an actual fire-arm on someone. The cop isn’t likely to get in any trouble for using the taser because they can always say they were “afraid they were going for a weapon” or some excuse like that, but didn’t actually fire their fire-arm off at them, but only their taser, which is supposed to be a “non-lethal” deterrent. And if someone dies because of a taser shock and has heart failure or something, well then that’s just an accident and not the officers fault either I guess. The system is so messed up these days.