Having a seizure? Let me taze you

California Cops Tased a Man Having a Seizure, Then Booked Him on Bogus Charges To Cover Their Mistake

Booked Him on Bogus Charges To Cover Their Mistake

To Cover Their Mistake

Mistake

Never has a word done so much heavy lifting.

Ok let's also assume he was intoxicated. Even then why the fuck would you tase him? Should've waited for the medical personnel. Then man was in his own goddamned house. WTF!

County Jail on charges of resisting arrest and battery. Afterward, he was released "still wearing nothing but his underwear and a disposable hospital outfit; he had no wallet, phone or money," the complaint states. "He did not remember Alice's phone number in the jail and they would not help him contact her, so he walked in his hospital slippers about a half mile to a gas station," where workers helped him call a taxi.

I’m familiar with the case but not this detail. Seriously, fuck these thugs.

Maybe we should defund the police.

While the Marin County District Attorney's office eventually refused to formally file charges against Frankel, he has still suffered lasting harm from his treatment by police. In addition to the physical injuries he sustained from Sinnott's use of force, Frankel spent over $10,000 fighting the police's attempts to have him prosecuted.

"Man who was not formally charged with a crime forced to spend $10 000 defending himself"

Officers "submitted the false reports or caused them to be submitted in an effort to smear [Frankel's] reputation, preoccupy him with a criminal case, intimidate him, and prevent him from pursuing claims against them for improper and excessive use of force," the complaint states, adding that police "acted willfully with the wrongful intention of injuring [Frankel] and for an improper and evil motive amounting to malice."

So they collasally fucked up, then fucked up more trying to cover up the initial fuck up. Don't suppose there were any actual consequences for the police officers blatantly lying to incriminate an innocent man?

Its like they arrive at the scene without any information at all.

They arrived their first, medical assistance still on the way. They should be to busy coordinating to make sure those can do their job efficiently when they arrive. Maybe performing first aid. They shouldn’t be looking for crimes even if they are present.

As a parent of a teenager who has tonic-clonic seizures (aka grand mal), this story made me nauseous. A patient recovering from a seizure has absolutely no ability to respond or understand what's going on. Police should be helping and making sure he's on his side, not tasing him. Whoever these cops are should be fired immediately. I hope Mr Frankel bankrupts the department.

My father has grand Mal seizures, these cops did not think that man was intoxicated. Anyone who's seen someone have a grand Mal would immediately know something was up with their brain

The first time my dad ever had one I was awoken at 1am to my mom screeching and my dad spasming on his bed spewing blood from his mouth (bit his tongue) and even I knew immediately it was a fucking seizure (I was 15 at the time and entirely untrained), these cops wanted to hurt someone

Why the fuck were the cops even dispatched? Any dispatcher should know that cops are fucking morons. And should not be send to a medical emergency. If an ambulance is not available you send firefighters. This is almost criminal negligence on the dispatcher’s part.

I have a patient who had a seizure and 911 was called. He tends to get agitated, so his wife warned the cops that came to leave him alone to come out of it as sometimes he starts flailing his arms. Well he flailed his arms and the cops decided to handle that by punching him in the head a few times. Cops need seizure training very very badly.

ACAB

Even if they didn't knew what to expect, a patient having a grand mal is lying on the floor unable to control his movements or communications.

How can that person possibly be percieved as a threat that has to be teasered?!?

Oh, good. Another police fuckup that the taxpayers are going to be on the hook for.

So this article mentions absolutely nothing about this man being a "financier", but it does mention that the woman is his FIANCÉ. Did this tweet seriously mix those two words up? And then OP read the story, read this tweet, and still went ahead and screenshotted it?

I am reading, rolled my eyes in pure disbelief and sighed out a heavy air. This kind of thing is something that third world cops would not even do. Plenty of comparison to be made with American cops and cops from poorer countries: corrupt, power-tripping, abusive, and have little to no standards of training. But this level of bullshit is something American cops would only do.

Although on the one hand, had the man been a black person, he probably would have already been shot straight away instead of being tased. American cops are just pure comical clowns and it is tragic.

I read an article like this years ago, I'd fine the link if search didn't suck everywhere.

A guy had a heart attack and his wife called emergency services. Police were the first to arrive and did what police do.

This guy was in his underwear leaning against the wall and because he didn't respond immediately to the police shouting at him they threw him to the ground and broke his back.

Make sure to beg dispatchers not to send the cops apparently.

"Mal" is Latin for "bad" sounds like the cops are educated about who the bad guys are.

I once saw two cops have a shootout with a mall because they stopped reading after the first L and I THANKED them for their SERVICE.

Wild guess: the 911 operator hears the wife, assumes her race from her speech, and transmits the assumption of her race to the cops, who choose violence as if they ever choose anything else

Tell me race was a factor without telling me race was a factor.

Fuck cops

Just A Fucking CAB.

I want to peel the skin off a cops face and feed it to the next one holy fuck I hate them so much

Okay, I’ve had to call 911 for medical emergency once, and I don’t recall police showing up.