This just shows your ignorance. Very few patients in ER are combative. Those that are, are generally very injured and confused.

When ambulances bring in cases, they are usually restrained already for the patients own safety. If the police bring in a case the patient will already be restrained. If they are combative, they usually are seriously injured. There are exceptions, but exceptions are not the norm.

Go ahead, work in an ER and find out. Don’t just take my word for it. Of course I don’t know any hospitals that allow volunteers to work in an ER. Every one I am aware of use only trained professionals near patients.

You restate quotes from non-witnesses as facts. Now you have him dressed up as a suicide victim.

Perhaps you could point out where I said he WAS A SUICIDE VICTIM.

Is the addle-brained white-trash aunt (watch the video) your idea of the ultimate conduit of truth and knowledge?

What the fuck is wrong with you? The Aunt spoke for the family and the kid and you relegate her as “white trash”??? What the fuck do you call the comment from the Police Captain? Fascist propaganda?

This is where contrary to your neutral claim, you have automatically sided with the very cops that tried to kill the kid.

You have no idea if he was “clean” unless you read the E.R. chart; it’s highly unlikely, given the circumstances.

You claim I have no “evidence” then you turn around and decide your belief he has drugs in him is more plausible. Why? Morans like you are so fixated on proving the cops are justified you will discount the truth and fabricate your own bullshit.

Do you just take the aunt’s statement as a fact and not wonder if she is biased?

Yes. Until more compelling or verified evidence is presented that contradicts her. It is accepted that her relationship makes her biased. The same as the Police Captain is understood to be biased. If her facts are incorrect then the police can repudiate her. They didn’t deny the kid was tazered.

Almost every trauma …

The key word there is “Almost”. FYI, My wife is the Supervisor of Nursing at our local Hospital. Most of their cases are for heart attacks and car accidents. People may be crazier in your neck of the woods.

Police and ER personnel have to deal with these crazies every night across the country.

I notice the sly insinuation, without the slightest bit of evidence, that the kid was on drugs. He wasn’t. Unless you can prove he was which would mean you have access to his medical records which would put you in violation of the law.

Not every person coming into an ER is on drugs. Most are just injured or sick.

You didn’t hear what the police had to say – only the part that was edited by the local infotainment station to create a ‘buzz’

Do you have any evidence that the TV station edited out any culpable statements by the police? They justified tazering the kid !!! Every TV station or newspaper in this country will take the word of the police over that of a civilian. It takes a lot of proof to get them to publish / broadcast police misdoings.

Why are you so eager to bash the police on the basis of almost no real knowledge whatsoever about what actually happened to this poor kid?

Because I accept the uncontested story. The police repeatedly tazered a kid with a broken back and heel. By your view, no one would be able to believe anything unless it came from the police.

So why are you so gung ho to ONLY believe the police story that he needed tazering?

Don’t try to make every story fit your politics by suspending your thinking capacity.

What the fuck? There is a story of a kid that fell / jumped / whatever from a bridge. His back and heel were broken and he was unable to stand. The police tazered him several times while he was unable to comply with their demands. The police did not offer any evidence they or the public were in any physical danger or that the kid was even under arrest. The tazering may have complicated his medical treatment.

Now, do you have anything to rebut those facts? Fuck you with “he probably” or “drugged up wackos” or “she looks like white trash” bullshit. That only shows you own myopic view.

I have only contempt for assholes like you that blame the victim.

otherwise…
try TO FIGURE OUT WHATS GOING ON..
TRYING TO arrest someone, “JUST because” ISNT a reason.
COPS are not hired to THINK..
THATS for the judge to do..

If your police department shows up guns drawn ready to shoot for a call like this there is a problem. They will eventually do something stupid and open your community up for a really expensive lawsuit. So the money for routine patrols and schools gets diverted to a settlement.

By the way, although the initial reports show he was drug and alcohol free, some of these toxicology results take several days to return.

“Go work in an ER as a volunteer one night. Almost every trauma has a component of stunning stupidity and extreme drug/ alcohol involvement. These people come in badly injured but are commonly extremely combative with people who are trying to help them.”