A new video shows 10 officers with the LAPD surrounding Christopher Zareck, 43, who is confined to a wheelchair. In the video below, Zareck appears combative, but the response of the officers is being criticized as excessive and abusive. Zareck was tasered and hit repeatedly by bean-bag rounds.
Officers were trying to taken Zareck into custody and the tape records three bean bags discharged. Zareck appears to scream and kick his legs out. The officers insisted that they were in danger when Zareck brandished a pole. He was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon. Police have also released word that Zareck was previously charged with driving under the influence and hit-and-run.
None of the officers involved has been placed on leave.
DBQ – How right you are. Just because people are disabled does not mean they cannot be dangerous.
The idea that one guy in a wheelchair can pose a danger of a lot of harm is beyond belief.
Well, obviously you people have never watched Justified 😉
The article says the LAPD is under fire. They will be “under fire” when the relative of the wheel chair guy gets his rifle and opens fire. Tasing someone is using lethal force. It would be a defensive act to shoot the one shooting him with a taser. Once to the head with a real bullet.
CCPGI
You are very funny! 🙂
But bettykath, Leaving People Alone is anti-Progressivism and therefore doubleplus ungoodthink.
Indeed, it is the Essence of Progressivism to control even the tiniest aspect of your pitiful drone lives, even your thoughts.
Surely you learned this in grammar school, the Seat of All Progressive Thought.
We are disappointed in you.
It is possible Garner was selling “imported” smokes from faraway Virginny or Mizzoo, and the NYC taxes were never collected. Such imports must be choked off!
The cops were on the scene because of a fight, a fight that Garner broke up. Oh, here’s that man who has been selling cigarettes, let’s hassle him. So he dies. The crime is in selling cigarettes without paying the tax. But where did Garner get his cigarettes to sell? He bought them and paid the tax. The state already has its tax money. So leave Garner alone. I have seen several people on the lowest economic ladder buying or selling one cigarette at a time. The buyers don’t have enough money to buy a full pack and the sellers can’t afford to give them away. Leave these folks alone.
For example, Dear Progressive, remember how a NY City man of high Victim Status (AA), one Eric Garner, was killed during enforcement of the law against selling cigarettes one at a time to his fellow Poor People Of the Street.
But it was the Evil Cigarette!
So clearly Against the Law in bluest blue New York!
Yet, yet….
How to enforce the law against selling loosies?
Why, We hire Men in Blue to enforce Progressive laws in Blue Cities.
So, the difficult part:
Just how do you make Eric Garner stop selling those disgusting cancer sticks, when….
He won’t just stop on his own when you calmly explain to him how awful cigarettes are, and
He won’t go quietly to Legal Time Out?
What should a Good Progressive do?
Easy.
Keep their Undesirable Behaviors illegal
AND
Decry how those rules are enforced
AND
Don’t think for even one second about the internal contradiction that causes.
See?
It’s a simple form of the Progressive Dictum: It’s Always Someone Else’s Fault.
Easy peasy.
Thank You.
Those “officers” are full of evil spirits.
Like many of the denizens of “business improvement districts”, aka inner city slums full of derelict buildings and people, (and praise to the Chief Euphemiser for that term), the Progressive Chief Inquisitor is Herself schizophrenic when it comes to dealing with this type of crime:
So Progressives need to be prepared to engage Official Cognitive Dissonance Directive 43:
1) Call the cops on an unstable crazy disabled man who is chasing away customers and workers to Take Him Away (although Away -the mental hospital- was banished in the 1970s, so it’s more of a Legal Time Out)
And simultaneously
2) Venomously criticize the cops for how they do your Dirty Work.
The really nice touch here was that the video was shot by another homeless man from his homeless cellphone.
Proper procedure: let a little old lady grab the end of the pole. If she’s quick and strong, she gets a really good hold of her end and pulls it away herself, while pointing out the guy in the wheelchair that the pansy cops are just waiting for a chance to shoot him. A bit of ambiguity needed on what they’ll shoot him with. If she likes watch sweaty men in a tug of war, she turns her end of the pole over to the 10 officers who then do a tug of war with the wheelchair bound.
Another example of excessive force that will never be prosecuted.
In a few years – after much legal effort, the city will pay Mr. Zareck a settlement out of taxpayer funds.
No cop will suffer.
We are seeing the development of a special (and much more lenient) justice system for cops. Compare Ferguson where we didn’t learn the cop’s name for a long time to the immediate release of Mr. Zareck’s record. Look at the Dallas rules that allow a cop 24 hours before a statement is made.
Remember these incidents when there is a request for more police funding – speak up.
A taser is a lethal weapon. This is assault and battery with a deadly weapon. Serious felony in CA. If the prosecutor does not charge him with a crime then wheelchair guy can sue him to obtain justice. Try to get someone on the jury who has a relative in a wheelchair or a juror who is in a wheelchair. All the cops are guilty because none tried to stop the assault with a deadly weapon and indeed were part of the assault.
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Ferguson! Ferguson!
Greatest city in Ala Bam.
Clear across this great big land..
There ain’t no place like Fer Gu Son!
–end
Unless you are in LA.
I am making fun not of Ferguson but of the media and its treatment of Ferguson. A cop shot and killed a fleeing felon who had attacked said cop in Ferguson. The dead guy deserved it there. Here we have a wheelchair bound human being assaulted and battered with a deadly weapon. If you don’t think a taser is a deadly weapon then try one on grandma. Oh, you have doubts?
Sometimes exceptional forces is needed when you are outnumbered 1/2 to 10.
It could have been a 001/2 rocket powered wheel chair with stealth capabilities.
Or, it could have been perilously close to Dunkin Donut Time.
This is why God made rifles. On the 9th Day. A human with a rifle could aim high, miss the wheelchair guy, and scatter the igPays very quickly. In this case shoot a few in the head- particularly the one with the taser.
Forget all this court stuff and suing the igPays or the City.
And we criticize ISIS. This is organized terrorism in our own midst paid for by the taxpayer.
Bam bam…”it moved! Shoot it!” is the motto of a coward or in your words a pansy. 10-1 is hardly a fair fight with or without a wheelchair. Although it seems more bloodlust than cowardice sometimes
Don’t you just love how folks–who have probably never even shot a bb gun–have the audacity to call cops pansies?
No mention of the reason why the police were called to this location in the first place. A snippet of an occurrence is viewed, but knowing what preceded the police reaction is required. Were there complaints that Zareck was threatening others or causing some type of disturbance? Why would ten uniformed officers just arbitrarily surround a wheelchair-bound individual, trying to subdue him, for no apparent reason? An individual, brandishing a pole, can do a lot of harm–even while confined to a wheelchair.
The idea that one guy in a wheelchair can pose a danger of a lot of harm is beyond belief. I try and place myself in the cops shoes, and I would not hesitate to go after this guy on my own. I would probably get banged up in the worst case scenario, but my understanding is that cops are supposed to put their bodies on the line. I never heard that they are to serve and protect only if they are assured that they will not be a bruise or two. I am also struck by how many cops are just standing around. If the guy did get a good whack in on a cop, I guess the others would just stand there until some other cop got enough guts to go in. Pansies all!
I am only surprised that he is still alive. I would have thought his resisting arrest deserved the death penalty. Maybe they are learning a little bit?
Well, i guess he could have run over their feet with the wheelchair???
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