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A retired Marine Sergeant who served two tours in Iraq, was peacefully sitting on the front stoop of a house, when police in unmarked cars who had him under surveillance (believing based on his acquaintances that he might be part of a narcotics ring) pulled up and tasered him three times, causing him to go into convulsions and throw up. Because he had not gotten his hand free from his jacket quickly enough (while convulsing) an officer then shot him point blank in the chest with three .40 caliber rounds. Hale's widow has filed a civil lawsuit.
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This happened in my town. One of the witnesses, Howard Mixon, pleaded with a nearby officer to stop after the dude started vomiting, calling the officers' actions overkill. At this point, one of the cops came over to Mixon and snarled, “I'll fucking show you overkill!”. Shortly after, rather than making
any attempt to restrain Sgt. Derek Hale (There were five cops, and Hale had been tazered three times and was convulsing), a Lieutenant decided that the best course of action was to simply put three rounds into Hale's chest at point blank range.
Super-fucking awesome.
Jam it back in, in the dark.