Patient calls 911, gets tasered

A diabetic, oxygen dependent patient with ALS calls 911 for seizures. Officers kick down his front door and tasers him in bed.

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He’s coming right for us!
For accuracy’s sake, it is the girlfriend who called 911, Josie Edwards, who has Lou Gehrig’s disease and is oxygen-dependent.
Nelms is diabetic and was tasered after he started seizing and she called 911 for help.
Officials are refusing to release the 911 tapes, using the excuse that the law entitles them to do this when there is a threat of pending litigation. (FWIW, it is unlikely that this type of public document can lawfully be withheld from public review under the statute they claim applies)
Anonymous
As long as cops, Chiefs of police, mayors (who hire chiefs of police), prosecutors, and judges are not personally liable for their deeds, citizens rights will be trampled.
Want to bet that the evidence has already ‘been disposed of, in accordance with department procedures’?
What threat is a man lying in bed to police?
Anonymous
How did a 911 call for paramedics turn into a police assault? Those 911 tapes will be critical in determining where the break-down in communication occurred.
KoKo
“What threat is a man lying in bed to police?”
Now, that depends on what he’s hiding under the bedcovers, or even under the bed, doesn’t it?
Anonymous
While the devil is in the details in any particular case, and we only have one side on this one, there seems to be an escalating frequency of the unnecessary and abusive use of tazers.

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