Small Sword Vs. Taser
TaserCam footage of police dealing with an obviously deranged man in a bathroom who holds a small sword/large knife to his own throat.
Although this guy more than likely never actually intended to do harm to himsef (most do this crap for attention) you can never really know. The situation ends well with the suspect walking out of the bathroom in handcuffs missing only his ego. No major injuries were received even after the Taser deployments.
This is an excellent example of protecting the officers and suspects lives with the Taser and rights with the camera. Complaints against the officers can usually be determined much easier with video evidence, TaserCam provides critical video from the officers point of view, this video also demonstrates the quality of the video and audio from such a small device.
I’ll shut up now, I’m sounding more and more like a Taser sales rep, maybe they’ll send me a check?
For some reason, I find this incredibly hilarious.
-William
http://www.William-Mac.com
I wish they would send us both a check.
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Do you think the guy asking Kerry a question, deserved to be zapped?
Renegade Eye,
Re: “This blog is hard to maneuver around, with my Safari browser.”
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re “Thank you for visiting my blog.”
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re “Do you think the guy asking Kerry a question, deserved to be zapped?”
Yes and no.
First, I don’t think he “deserved” it for asking a question per se. However, there is so much more to the incident than he asked a question and was arrested/tasered.
However, I have reviewed 6 different versions of the video, talked with two witnesses, read the police reports, and read others peoples accounts of the incident. You can see one post here:
Andrew Meyer - John Kerry Taser Incident.
Basically the event organizers asked police to remove Meyer after a long string of disruptions and finally his use of the term “blow job” - Meyer immediately resisted the police and started trying to invoke a response from the attendees. He was not even under arrest at that point, when the police tried to control him and arrest him he continued to resist and had been given many warnings to comply or he would be tased. He continued to resist and had one hand in a cuff when he was tased.
Given the circumstance and my own law enforcement experience I do not think there was any wrong doing on the part of the event management (Accent) or the police. Also I am convinced that Meyer had set out to cause a scene, not necessarily to be arrest/tased. But he did make a scene and continue to push the envelope to make the most of the scene caused.
One glaring thing to support this is that he gave his camera to a woman there to record the event, both Meyer and the woman (Clarisa Jessup[?]) stated that they did not know each other but within hours of the incident the video had been uploaded to CNN iReport under her name and had also been uploaded to YouTube.
re “Do you think the guy asking Kerry a question, deserved to be zapped?”
Yes, zap zap.