Second Taser Related Death From OKCPD since July

[Kyle Rayner]

http://newsok.com/oklahoma-city-man...e-him-during-domestic-dispute/article/3495509

My main complaint with this article is that the staff dug up the dead man's court records, and then they published the article revealing the man had debt? That's pretty Busch League....does the Jokelahoman have to paint the guy in a negative light?

 

[dru]

uh, interesting first post there.

How bout a "hi there" and "hello"?

 

[Kyle Rayner]

...hi there and hello?

 

[Weatherby]

What can be learned from this story?

DON'T FIGHT WITH THE POLICE!

It can never end up good for you. I cannot understand what people think is going to happen when they try to fight an officer.

 

[SMS]

Ditto. Don't want to die from tazing? Then don't do stupid sh$t that'll get you tazed.

 

[Kyle Rayner]

No one said he fought the police. You are assuming. The police said he was "resisting." We don't know what that includes.

 

[stewartglock]

Resisting arrest qualifies the use of a tazer or oc.

 

[Norman]

That's pretty Busch League....does the Jokelahoman have to paint the guy in a negative light?

Really? I thought hitting his wife and then fighting the police did that for him. Honestly it irritates me that this is called the second taser related death. In the first one the guy was higher than a kite, ran a while, fought the police and then got Tased. The COD on that one is still in determined. In this case the guy hit his wife, fought the police, got OC'd and got Tased, then died. I think a more accurate assesment of these incidents would be OKCPD has 2nd incident where citizens with pre-existing health conditions did stupid stuff, fought the police and died. It is undetermined what killed both of these individuals, however their actions had a direct influence in it. The Taser hasn't had a single confirmed kill on a health individual.

On a second note it seems that you came to this forum to troll and or argue, since this article was your first post.

On a third note, the first subject who died didn't really seem to have any ambition since he was attempting to rob a DOLLAR GENERAL....

 

[Kyle Rayner]

The officers were responding to a call, was he under arrest?

 

[Norman]

Resisting arrest qualifies the use of a tazer or oc.

I'd be uneasy about OCing then deploying the Taser though. Don't really want to light someone on fire. I know some OC is "non flamible", but stil...