http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/09/16/1330125/-South-Carolina-sheriff-s-deputy-caught-on-video-repeatedly-tasing-man-in-handcuffs?detail=email
Another day, another case of excessive force, this time in South Carolina:
On Tuesday, Lt. Curtis Wilson, a sheriff’s department spokesman, said although he has not seen the video, the suspect in the video is Charles James Lang Jr., 25.Wilson said Lang was arrested for disorderly conduct on Sunday and was charged with resisting arrest after not complying with the officer.Lang can be seen in the video sitting on the officer’s patrol car in handcuffs. He then falls to the ground after the officer shoots him with a taser gun.
In the video, the Sheriff's deputy is standing over Lang saying "all I asked you for was your name." Police said tasing an already handcuffed Lang, with backup deputies on the way, was because he had been "combative with officers" in the past. But, if they didn't know his name, how did they know he'd been combative? And it seems clear in the video that he was not acting in a physically threatening way.
they need to get off this BS about combative, resisting, assaulting the officer, everyone of the last few altercations ended in death or severe beatings in each case subject was handcuffed or restrained in some fashion before the maniac cop starts their maniacal attacks where is the threat?
they have a point if he had been confronted before and combative why was his name not obtained before releasing him? they say violence is a low education response could it be that they can only come up with the same fits all reason for over the top brutality? watching the video there was no sudden movement by suspect or cop his hands at his sides until he decides to electrocute Mr Lang.
police are deadly liars to stupid to realize somebody has a camera phone close by or they are unconcerned with witnesses, which makes them even more dangerous.
