Comments on: Shocking Video of Man Being Tasered in Back for Refusing to Sign Ticket in Utah http://jonathanturley.org/2007/11/21/shocking-video-of-man-being-tasered-in-back-for-refusing-to-sign-ticket-in-utah/ Res ipsa loquitur ("The thing itself speaks") Tue, 14 Feb 2012 07:32:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Clarence Pierce http://jonathanturley.org/2007/11/21/shocking-video-of-man-being-tasered-in-back-for-refusing-to-sign-ticket-in-utah/#comment-37713 Wed, 04 Feb 2009 02:11:15 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/2007/11/21/shocking-video-of-man-being-tasered-in-back-for-refusing-to-sign-ticket-in-utah/#comment-37713 I am 52 Years old and have tremendous respect for the law and the people who protect us. However, this officer did not use any tact at all. He was on a power trip from the start of the stop. Although you never know if this family of three with one on the way is a threat it seems obvious to me they were not a threat. The officer escalated the situation from it’s conception. Conversley when a police officer tells you to stop, STOP. I have been pulled over for speeding a few times and never was treated disrespectfully. The officer was wrong! He never told him he was under arrest or was being cuffed for the officers safety. He did not read hom his rights or warn him he would tase him, if he has to I don’t know. The Officer was wrong!!!! It was scary to watch a young family go through that. I love the police and totally respect 99% of them… Not this “COP”

]]> By: LarryE http://jonathanturley.org/2007/11/21/shocking-video-of-man-being-tasered-in-back-for-refusing-to-sign-ticket-in-utah/#comment-29554 Thu, 27 Nov 2008 05:50:53 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/2007/11/21/shocking-video-of-man-being-tasered-in-back-for-refusing-to-sign-ticket-in-utah/#comment-29554 You missed the most significant line: When the cop is telling the other cop what he did, he says something like the driver was “acting like he’s in charge.”

It seems that in almost all of these incidents, at least ones of which we have evidence such as videos, there has been a defining moment when the person who becomes the victim of the taser refuses to passively submit to the control of the cop.

I have said I don’t know how many times that – exactly as I predicted when I first learned of them – that the most frequent use of tasers would be and has been in defense not of a cop’s safety but of their ego. That they are used mostly not for protection but for dominance, not in lieu of lethal force (which was their supposed reason for existence) but in lieu, often enough, of any force or even of no force.

They should be banned.

]]> By: Man Tasered For Refusing To Sign Ticket | The Cosmic Tap http://jonathanturley.org/2007/11/21/shocking-video-of-man-being-tasered-in-back-for-refusing-to-sign-ticket-in-utah/#comment-2231 Thu, 22 Nov 2007 08:52:27 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/2007/11/21/shocking-video-of-man-being-tasered-in-back-for-refusing-to-sign-ticket-in-utah/#comment-2231 [...] case of Taser abuse.  Hope the cop is fired, tased, and then loses a [...]

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