Praying man gets tazed by police and escapes
Two police officers pin a man to the ground and try to handcuff him. The man wriggles and prays to Yahweh. Eventually, one of the officers shoots him with a Tazer, which instead of subduing the man, gives him the strength to break free and run away. The officers pursue the man half-heartedly, but quickly give up.
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Muahaha, priceless! Now is there are a reason why they were trying to arrest that man?
Yes! GO GO GO
Those cops need to work on their cuff work, too many donuts and reliance on the tazer has made them slack for sure.
tazers do not kill, that video is all the proof anyone needs
"Witch Queen", that's where I lost it, well and the impromptu song.
Is there any more detail on this whole thing.
Tazers give you wiiiiings!
It's almost like torturing crazy people is somehow not effective.
so why couldn't they just tell him the charge for which he was being arrested?
I wonder what the cops did with his wife (?) who was filming the whole thing.
"tazers do not kill, that video is all the proof anyone needs"
Neat! So if I cite an instance where a bullet doesn't kill, then that means all bullets don't kill, right?
@3 : as much as it is proof that JHVH1 is real and answers prayer
Anyone know when or where this was?
#9
not a single person has ever died from getting tazed
That's so awesome. good for him for standing up for himself. Yeah he was a little crazy, but he has every right to be
I mean come on who hasn't seen Crank 2?!
Don't dare taze someone with an artificial heart...
Or at least don't taze Chev, he's like the energizer bunny on crack.
Context please.
this is why cameras in citizen hands are important. If he had been alone, one would have stamped his face to jelly with a boot and they would have handcuffed his unconscious body.
http://truthnottasers.blogspot.com/2008/04/what-follows-are-names-where-known.html
I call shenanigans. These cops are subduing a supposedly dangerous subject with a tazer, let let's him have one arm free, and he's not on his stomach with his hands behind him??
#11
Amnesty International:
Taser related deaths pass the 150 mark
http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=engamr510302006
Law enforcers have counted more than 180 deaths in the years since TASERs came into widespread use to stun suspects.
http://www.yourlawyer.com/articles/read/11882
Witness blames RCMP, Vancouver airport for death of Tasered man
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2007/10/18/bc-taser.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Dzieka%C5%84ski_Taser_incident
There's one. there's hundreds more. Look up "Excited Delirium." for more.
@11
"not a single person has ever died from getting tazed"
What's your point? No one has ever died from getting hit in the knees with a nightstick either.
Hawley,
Nobody ever gets your sarcasm.
I mean come on who hasn't seen Crank 2?
Me. But I just saw the first one. It's amazing how a single inane premise can keep me glued to the screen for an hour and a half.
#11
Nice try at spreading a lie but I found some with only about 30 seconds of searching.
http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=492928
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2009/05/31/9632786-cp.html
Just for fun:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/west_yorkshire/7096456.stm
Wait a second, this guy apparently has a warrant out for his arrest yet the cops give up after...what 100 feet? What a pathetic excuse for law enforcement, if what he was being arrested on was so serious they needed to hold him down at a gas station they better chase after that man like their life depended on it, because they're acting like our lives depend on it!!!
#11
Robert Dziekanski - Vancouver Airport - Oct 14 2007
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/article790894.ece
http://taseredwhileblack.blogspot.com/2008/04/list-of-337-people-tasered-to-death-by.html
HAWLEY if u r for real, then google "deaths by taser" and in just the first page ( of hundreds of thousands) there are accounts of thousands of deaths attributed to tasers in just the last few years. if, however it is as antinous says, ur 'special' brand of sarcasm...then, well played, well played indeed.
This sounds like the origin story for a cheesy religious supervillain. Having gained the power to drain the power from tazers and blast cops and indfidels with lightning bolts from his fingertips, APOSTLE ELEKTROSHOK will go forth to conquer the world. Or maybe I'm thinking of something in the Old Testament. Either way, it's up to Spider-Man to save us all.
Do not taunt Happy Fun Zealot.
Crazy guy: "what are you arresting me for?"
Cop: "It doesn't matter"
wtf? "we don't need no stinkin' charges?" aren't the cops required by law to inform you of the charges on which you're being arrested at the time of the arrest?
Also, what's with the slowly jogging after the escaping suspect for all of 20 yards and then quitting?
You know what I say? It's Yahweh or the highway.
@11 "not a single person has ever died from getting tazed."
A simple Google search would indicate that is a false statement. Several instances abound of otherwise healthy individuals suffering MI from an overzealous tazing. R.I.F.
Um, this guy is kinda my new hero!
Praying man taze.
never underestimate a crazy.
sometimes i suspect insanity is an evolutionary advantage.
Do Canadian cops have to tell you too?
crazy zealot victim guy sounded Canadian.
There is so much wrong with that I can't even start.
yaaaaaaaawwwwwwheeeeeeeeeeeeea!
Once again (like with the naked concert guy) they didn't say "co-operate or we will tazer you" they just picked some arbitrary moment to get fed up and start zapping the person.
Is it just me or does he sound like Bruce McCullough in a Kids in the Hall sketch?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_McCulloch
"I ascertain that you are tasering me."
If this guy were in North Carolina, he might have been completely legit in running away. Might, since I don't know what happened before filming started.
At least in NC, under NCGS 15A-401, cops are required to tell you what you're being arrested for. If they don't, it's an illegal arrest. (I think. "As promptly as reasonable under the circumstances" is unclear.)
If you're being arrested illegally, in NC, under State v. Swift, you're allowed to use non-deadly force in resisting the (illegal) arrest.
#17 while i agree everything an officer does should be recorded and saved, I think that people who make conclusions without evidence are a bigger threat to our safety.
No society ever suffered from being too desirous of evidence before making up their minds about another individual or issue.
without evidence? search youtube: " police brutality" and tell me what you get.
and one time i got mugged by black guys.
to expand. People abuse power. any kind. So police are taught how to hurt people, and then given broad authority. surprise surprise.
thats why i agree they should be held accountable for every minute of their day.
now assuming because someone falls into a category you can predict their actions? that's bigotry.
"What's the charge?" "Resisting arrest." Well that's convenient!
Yahhweh! Yaaaaahweeeeh! YAAAAAAAAAHHHWWEEEEEHHH!
That's meme-worthy.
I guess prayer works. ... But seriously I could only imagine being one of the policemen and having to try to explain that day at work to my wife.
so, umm, that sure does look wacky. And I'm all about police stating why they are arresting a person when they do so - that's rather vital. But.
This feels faked. Or fudged in some way. The police so inexpertly holding the guy down, the start of film with the guy on his side. The police not once saying anything to the person filming - if this was brutality, aren't they usually all about force shutting off cameras? There is too much that doesn't make sense.
Context plz?
#41 made me think about your comment, "arbitrary moment to get fed up and start zapping the person." Maybe there ought to be a timer before all stun guns could be used. ED-209 "you have 15 seconds to comply" after which you be tazered. At that point you run but at least you get a warning. Didn't all of us have mothers that counted down from 3 when we we were in trouble?, we rarely if ever got to 1.
Everyone in law enforcement needs to know some martial arts submission tactics. It looks like these cops are out of shape and rely on their tazers too much.
Poe's law in action. At so many levels.
Cocaine is a hell of a drug.
I can see a string of Jackass sequels coming.
many of the comments in this post are, frankly,
(wait for it...)
quiteshocking.
^m^
I'm not really clear that dude is praying.
I'm surprised to see so many posts without someone pointing out the obvious. The guy got loose because the cops let him loose. They let him loose because they wanted to taze him. You can't hit someone with a taser while your partner is holding the guy down; if you do, you'll shock them both. Anyone the perp is in contact with will get shocked, too. So they released their grip thinking that they'd taser him, get an immediate submission, and end the struggle.
The problem is, the taser didn't work worth crap. From watching the vid, I'm not even sure it was fired. If it was, it might have embedded in a belt or something and failed to shock the guy. By that time, though, the (crappy) hold the cops had was released and they guy was running away.
So we have poorly conditioned or poorly motivated cops (they'd have to be one or the other, to give up the foot chase that fast), poorly trained in submission holds, exercising poor judgement in overreliance on a particular tool (the taser) and turning in an overall stunningly poor performance.
This is almost worse than seeing excessive force. At least cops who throw around excessive force might be able to protect the public when they come up against a truly bad guy. But these guys? I wouldn't rely on these guys to guard the cupcakes in the elementary school cafeteria.
God, I hope one of the cops was named Wiggum.
Look, this guy is a huge pain in the ass. By the time they feebly attempt to taser him, even I'm not sure they shouldn't be trying.
Until, that is, I take the whole scene in perspective.
1) It's not like, if they had no taser, they woulda coulda shoulda shot him.
2) It's not like it worked anyway.
3) It's not like they ever announced why they were arresting him, even with his prompting.
4) It's not like it was actually important enough to chase him down afterwards.
The "Yaaaaweh!" thing should be fake, but in Texas it might not be. Still.
(captcha: vagrant lived)
Looks Fake to me.
Also, this Tazer... looked like the type you press on someone, not the fired kind that most (Every?) cop I've seen use.
My guess would be:
Religious Fanatic Viral.
Why else would you sit there and listen to his drivel for 2 mins?
You wouldnt.
I kinda call shenanigans, too. I can't think of WHY someone would make this fake video, but those just seem like really bad police officers (as in bad at their jobs). It seems like real cops would definitely be trying a little harder and be even slightly perturbed about being filmed by someone standing really close to them and, conceivably, interfering with an arrest.
YAAHHHHWEHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! I'm in love with this guy, though.
Everyone keeps saying they aren't telling him why they are arresting him. Isn't it sufficient that they tell him there is a warrant out for his arrest (which they do)? He even acknowledges it: "It's for changing my name!" Probably not the real reason for the warrant, but I'm guessing it's related.
Cop: "It doesn't matter"
What What What?!?!?! Shit,... uh... no!
Isn't it sufficient that they tell him there is a warrant out for his arrest (which they do)?
No. If two guys in uniforms come up and arrest you without telling you what you're charged with, you would just go quietly? That slope slides right down to Gitmo.
in my unfortunate, long, and numerous dealings with police and the legal system it has been made very clear to me by police and criminal lawyers that (at least in nyc) police do not have to tell you the charge they are arresting you for. technically they dont even have to tell you youre under arrest, it just would be impossible to drag someone off without saying anything at all so they usually do state that at least.
the whole cops have to tell you youre under arrest is tv bullshit just like the cops have to read you your rights thing which is also almost totally bogus in real life situations. in fact when i once asked a big $$ drug lawyer if police were required to tell you the charge or even that youre under arrest he laughed. what does that say about how shitty our system is.
1984. we're 25 years past it but just getting there now.
Post 59 - The tazer was working. If you look closely, there were several spots of blue where the electricity was definitely hitting the ground.
I'm suprised nobody's mentioned it: they were using a tazer. With big ole sparks of discharge.
At a gas station.
Brilliant!
he got away because the cops knew they were being filmed and couldn't get away with doing what they usually do. Bottom line: proof they can't do the basic job without cheating.