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Taser Fiascos
http://www1.kitsapsun.com/bsun/local...074940,00.html
Police Coax Man Down from Rooftop By Kitsap Sun staff October 18, 2006 Bremerton A Bremerton man who was accidentally shot by Kitsap County sheriff's deputies in June had another encounter with law enforcement officers Monday night after he climbed onto the roof of a home wearing nothing but a T-shirt around his waist. But this time the outcome was different. Police "coaxed" the 32-year-old man from the roof of the Madrona Point Drive home after talking with him for about a half hour, according to the Bremerton officers' reports. An officer responded to the home shortly after 6 p.m. as the homeowner announced to him simply, "There's a guy on my roof," reports said. Officers had been inundated with 911 calls about the man on the roof for about an hour before they arrived. The first officer on scene said the man appeared to "be on drugs" and was wearing a "gray T-shirt he fashioned into a loincloth" and had wrapped around his waist, reports said. The man was familiar to officers as the same person accidentally shot by Kitsap County sheriff's deputies in Navy Yard City back in June. In the June incident, the man had climbed a tree and had reportedly been talking to himself. Deputies came to the scene in an effort to remove him from the tree, and one deputy mistakenly fired a gun rather than a Taser to bring him down. In Monday's episode, officers said they "coaxed" him from the roof, and at one point, the man even said that "he didn't want to get shot again," reports said. After about a half hour, the man came down from the roof and officers handcuffed him with Tasers drawn. He was taken to Harrison Medical Center for an evaluation. The homeowner declined to file any criminal charges, police said. Veteran Kitsap County Washington Deputy Sheriff Mistakes His Pistol For A Taser, Shoots Man In Tree Who Had Done Nothing To Anyone 2006-06-23 BREMERTON, WASHINGTON -- The Kitsap County Sheriff's Office has placed a deputy on administrative leave after the deputy shot and wounded a man in a tree with his gun instead of a Taser, the sheriff's office said. [They've failed to release this dumbass cop's name. Obviously, this is going to cost Kitsap County a whole lot of money before it's over. Anyone who has ever held a Glock and a Taser knows the feel is nowhere near similar. ] The deputy meant to fire the Taser and not his gun on Thursday, but grabbed the wrong weapon, sheriff's office spokesman Scott Wilson told the Kitsap Sun. The deputy has been with the sheriff's office for five years. Deputies carry both a Taser and a gun on their utility belts. The Taser used is similar in shape to the .40-caliber compact model gun the deputy used, Wilson said. The Taser is a handheld weapon that delivers an electric shock via two stainless steel barbs. The man had been climbed high up a fig tree and had been there for several hours. The shooting is under investigation by State Patrol detectives, Wilson said. The man, believed to be in his 20s, was wounded in the leg and airlifted to Seattle's Harborview Medical Center, where he was listed in satisfactory condition. Deputies and Bremerton Fire and Rescue personnel were called to the site of the tree after an employee of a local business reported the man had climbed the tree and was acting strangely. The man had been in the tree and talking to himself when one employee arrived at work at 7:30 a.m. Deputies and rescue personnel attempted to coax the man from the tree for almost two hours before he was shot. During that time, the man was becoming increasingly hostile toward rescue personnel and deputies trying to get him out of the tree, witness David Blakeslee told the newspaper. Deputies were unsure whether the man was intoxicated, on drugs, or possibly experiencing a psychotic episode. They wanted to get him down before he hurt himself or others, Wilson said. One deputy attempted to discharge a Taser at the man, but when it did not work asked another deputy to fire a Taser. Instead of grabbing the Taser, the deputy grabbed and fired the gun, Wilson said. Blakeslee, an employee with nearby B&B Auto Repair, described the man's reaction to getting shot. "He said, 'Ow, that hurt, I'm coming down, I'm coming down,'" Blakeslee said. The man climbed down the tree on his own where medical personnel were waiting, Blakeslee said. Police Officers "Accidentally" Shoot Man In Tree - Moron Cop Couldn't Tell The Difference Between A Taser And A Firearm 2006-06-22 KITSAP COUNTY, WASHINGTON. -- Officers responding to a welfare check of a man in a tree in Kitsap County accidentally shot the man in an attempt to use a Taser on him. The man had been holed up in the tree for hours. An officer used his Taser on the man and after it had no affect, the officer asked another officer to Taser the man. The other officer accidentally used his gun instead of his Taser and the man in the tree was shot. The man sustained one gunshot wound and was taken to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. Woman hit by Taser files suit: 32-year-old says she was in diabetic shock when police officer shot her in her car 2006-05-08 REDMOND, WA - A former Microsoft worker says a Redmond police lieutenant shot her with 50,000 volts of electricity from a Taser gun while she sat helpless in her car, stricken by diabetic shock. Leila Fuchs said police assumed she was drunk, but it was low blood sugar that made her incoherent. Either way, she said, she didn't deserve to be shocked by someone who should have been trained to recognize her condition. ``I was so out of it. There was no way I could've been a threat to anyone,'' said Fuchs, 32, who underwent a kidney transplant seven years ago. In his own report of the July 10 incident, Redmond police Lt. Charlie Gorman said Fuchs did nothing more than sit silently behind her steering wheel when he smashed the passenger-side window of her Chrysler Sebring and shot her with an electric stun gun because she refused to unlock her door. Fuchs' attorney, James Egan, filed a civil lawsuit Friday in King County Superior Court, naming Gorman as well as two other officers, Redmond Police Chief Steve Harris and the city of Redmond. The lawsuit seeks $1 million in damages for excessive force and negligence. In his report on the incident, which followed a fender-bender on 148th Avenue Northeast near Old Redmond Road, Gorman wrote that officers could smell alcohol coming from the inside of Fuchs' car, even though the car's doors were locked and its windows rolled up. Gorman said he identified himself and ordered Fuchs to unlock her door, but she failed to respond and stared straight ahead. After issuing a warning, the lieutenant used to tool to break the car's passenger-side window. He then unlocked the passenger-side door and again ordered her to unlock her driver-side door. But Fuchs just stared at him, he said. ``I produced my X-26 Taser and told her that if she did not comply with my order to unlock her door that I was going to use my Taser on her,'' Gorman wrote in his report. ``She looked away from me without responding and stared straight ahead. I shouted the Taser warning and deployed my Taser from a distance of five feet. The female reacted by screaming and stiffening her body.'' The lawsuit says Gorman then forced Fuchs to the ground and placed her in handcuffs. Minutes later, a follow-up police report says, fire department personnel examined Fuchs at the scene and determined her blood-sugar level was at 44, well below the normal level of 80-120. They offered her 15 grams of glucose and two glucose drinks, and Fuchs gradually became coherent. A breath test shortly after the incident revealed no presence of alcohol, according to Gorman's police report. ``The thing that really bothers me,'' Fuchs said Friday, ``is that the police department was completely unresponsive to me after the incident. .... They act like nothing happened.'' ``I want the public to know that there is a complete lack of training in the Redmond Police Department when it comes to medical issues like diabetic hypoglycemic shock.'' Redmond police spokeswoman Stacey Holland said Thursday she could not comment on the case involving Fuchs now that a civil lawsuit has been filed. Calls to Gorman and Redmond City Attorney Jim Haney were not returned Friday. When she was at the hospital after being shocked with the Taser, Fuchs said, an officer told her that Gorman used the Taser because he thought she was drunk and she was ignoring his commands. Court records show Fuchs has never been convicted of a crime or cited for a driving infraction in Washington state. A Bellevue resident at the time of the incident, she declined to reveal where she now lives during a phone interview with the Journal. Fuchs said she was on her way to her former job at Microsoft about noon that Sunday when she apparently slipped into a hypoglycemic episode and rear-ended another car at 10-15 mph on148th Avenue Northeast. When asked by the first responding officer if she had had anything to drink that day, Fuchs said no. It was the first time she had slipped into a hypoglycemic episode since before she underwent a kidney transplant in 1999, Fuchs said. She hasn't experienced another episode since the July 10 incident. Egan, Fuchs' attorney, said the physical force used by police was unwarranted and could've caused her serious complications. One of the Taser's electric probes entered her skin just a few inches from her transplanted kidney. Egan said the lawsuit seeks damages for excessive force and battery and for negligence because the Redmond Police Department allegedly failed to properly train and supervise their officers. After the incident, Fuchs said she suffered ongoing pain at the entry site of a second probe on her elbow, and she has been diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder. She said the incident has left her unable to sleep without medication and fearful of police. ``I'm afraid that if I ever am in a medical emergency I wouldn't be able to call the police department,'' she said. |
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http://www1.kitsapsun.com/bsun/local...074940,00.html Police Coax Man Down from Rooftop By Kitsap Sun staff October 18, 2006 Bremerton A Bremerton man who was accidentally shot by Kitsap County sheriff's deputies in June had another encounter with law enforcement officers Monday night after he climbed onto the roof of a home wearing nothing but a T-shirt around his waist. But this time the outcome was different. Police "coaxed" the 32-year-old man from the roof of the Madrona Point Drive home after talking with him for about a half hour, according to the Bremerton officers' reports. An officer responded to the home shortly after 6 p.m. as the homeowner announced to him simply, "There's a guy on my roof," reports said. Officers had been inundated with 911 calls about the man on the roof for about an hour before they arrived. The first officer on scene said the man appeared to "be on drugs" and was wearing a "gray T-shirt he fashioned into a loincloth" and had wrapped around his waist, reports said. The man was familiar to officers as the same person accidentally shot by Kitsap County sheriff's deputies in Navy Yard City back in June. In the June incident, the man had climbed a tree and had reportedly been talking to himself. Deputies came to the scene in an effort to remove him from the tree, and one deputy mistakenly fired a gun rather than a Taser to bring him down. In Monday's episode, officers said they "coaxed" him from the roof, and at one point, the man even said that "he didn't want to get shot again," reports said. After about a half hour, the man came down from the roof and officers handcuffed him with Tasers drawn. He was taken to Harrison Medical Center for an evaluation. The homeowner declined to file any criminal charges, police said. Veteran Kitsap County Washington Deputy Sheriff Mistakes His Pistol For A Taser, Shoots Man In Tree Who Had Done Nothing To Anyone 2006-06-23 BREMERTON, WASHINGTON -- The Kitsap County Sheriff's Office has placed a deputy on administrative leave after the deputy shot and wounded a man in a tree with his gun instead of a Taser, the sheriff's office said. [They've failed to release this dumbass cop's name. Obviously, this is going to cost Kitsap County a whole lot of money before it's over. Anyone who has ever held a Glock and a Taser knows the feel is nowhere near similar. ] The deputy meant to fire the Taser and not his gun on Thursday, but grabbed the wrong weapon, sheriff's office spokesman Scott Wilson told the Kitsap Sun. The deputy has been with the sheriff's office for five years. Deputies carry both a Taser and a gun on their utility belts. The Taser used is similar in shape to the .40-caliber compact model gun the deputy used, Wilson said. The Taser is a handheld weapon that delivers an electric shock via two stainless steel barbs. The man had been climbed high up a fig tree and had been there for several hours. The shooting is under investigation by State Patrol detectives, Wilson said. The man, believed to be in his 20s, was wounded in the leg and airlifted to Seattle's Harborview Medical Center, where he was listed in satisfactory condition. Deputies and Bremerton Fire and Rescue personnel were called to the site of the tree after an employee of a local business reported the man had climbed the tree and was acting strangely. The man had been in the tree and talking to himself when one employee arrived at work at 7:30 a.m. Deputies and rescue personnel attempted to coax the man from the tree for almost two hours before he was shot. During that time, the man was becoming increasingly hostile toward rescue personnel and deputies trying to get him out of the tree, witness David Blakeslee told the newspaper. Deputies were unsure whether the man was intoxicated, on drugs, or possibly experiencing a psychotic episode. They wanted to get him down before he hurt himself or others, Wilson said. One deputy attempted to discharge a Taser at the man, but when it did not work asked another deputy to fire a Taser. Instead of grabbing the Taser, the deputy grabbed and fired the gun, Wilson said. Blakeslee, an employee with nearby B&B Auto Repair, described the man's reaction to getting shot. "He said, 'Ow, that hurt, I'm coming down, I'm coming down,'" Blakeslee said. The man climbed down the tree on his own where medical personnel were waiting, Blakeslee said. Police Officers "Accidentally" Shoot Man In Tree - Moron Cop Couldn't Tell The Difference Between A Taser And A Firearm 2006-06-22 KITSAP COUNTY, WASHINGTON. -- Officers responding to a welfare check of a man in a tree in Kitsap County accidentally shot the man in an attempt to use a Taser on him. The man had been holed up in the tree for hours. An officer used his Taser on the man and after it had no affect, the officer asked another officer to Taser the man. The other officer accidentally used his gun instead of his Taser and the man in the tree was shot. The man sustained one gunshot wound and was taken to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. Woman hit by Taser files suit: 32-year-old says she was in diabetic shock when police officer shot her in her car 2006-05-08 REDMOND, WA - A former Microsoft worker says a Redmond police lieutenant shot her with 50,000 volts of electricity from a Taser gun while she sat helpless in her car, stricken by diabetic shock. Leila Fuchs said police assumed she was drunk, but it was low blood sugar that made her incoherent. Either way, she said, she didn't deserve to be shocked by someone who should have been trained to recognize her condition. ``I was so out of it. There was no way I could've been a threat to anyone,'' said Fuchs, 32, who underwent a kidney transplant seven years ago. In his own report of the July 10 incident, Redmond police Lt. Charlie Gorman said Fuchs did nothing more than sit silently behind her steering wheel when he smashed the passenger-side window of her Chrysler Sebring and shot her with an electric stun gun because she refused to unlock her door. Fuchs' attorney, James Egan, filed a civil lawsuit Friday in King County Superior Court, naming Gorman as well as two other officers, Redmond Police Chief Steve Harris and the city of Redmond. The lawsuit seeks $1 million in damages for excessive force and negligence. In his report on the incident, which followed a fender-bender on 148th Avenue Northeast near Old Redmond Road, Gorman wrote that officers could smell alcohol coming from the inside of Fuchs' car, even though the car's doors were locked and its windows rolled up. Gorman said he identified himself and ordered Fuchs to unlock her door, but she failed to respond and stared straight ahead. After issuing a warning, the lieutenant used to tool to break the car's passenger-side window. He then unlocked the passenger-side door and again ordered her to unlock her driver-side door. But Fuchs just stared at him, he said. ``I produced my X-26 Taser and told her that if she did not comply with my order to unlock her door that I was going to use my Taser on her,'' Gorman wrote in his report. ``She looked away from me without responding and stared straight ahead. I shouted the Taser warning and deployed my Taser from a distance of five feet. The female reacted by screaming and stiffening her body.'' The lawsuit says Gorman then forced Fuchs to the ground and placed her in handcuffs. Minutes later, a follow-up police report says, fire department personnel examined Fuchs at the scene and determined her blood-sugar level was at 44, well below the normal level of 80-120. They offered her 15 grams of glucose and two glucose drinks, and Fuchs gradually became coherent. A breath test shortly after the incident revealed no presence of alcohol, according to Gorman's police report. ``The thing that really bothers me,'' Fuchs said Friday, ``is that the police department was completely unresponsive to me after the incident. .... They act like nothing happened.'' ``I want the public to know that there is a complete lack of training in the Redmond Police Department when it comes to medical issues like diabetic hypoglycemic shock.'' Redmond police spokeswoman Stacey Holland said Thursday she could not comment on the case involving Fuchs now that a civil lawsuit has been filed. Calls to Gorman and Redmond City Attorney Jim Haney were not returned Friday. When she was at the hospital after being shocked with the Taser, Fuchs said, an officer told her that Gorman used the Taser because he thought she was drunk and she was ignoring his commands. Court records show Fuchs has never been convicted of a crime or cited for a driving infraction in Washington state. A Bellevue resident at the time of the incident, she declined to reveal where she now lives during a phone interview with the Journal. Fuchs said she was on her way to her former job at Microsoft about noon that Sunday when she apparently slipped into a hypoglycemic episode and rear-ended another car at 10-15 mph on148th Avenue Northeast. When asked by the first responding officer if she had had anything to drink that day, Fuchs said no. It was the first time she had slipped into a hypoglycemic episode since before she underwent a kidney transplant in 1999, Fuchs said. She hasn't experienced another episode since the July 10 incident. Egan, Fuchs' attorney, said the physical force used by police was unwarranted and could've caused her serious complications. One of the Taser's electric probes entered her skin just a few inches from her transplanted kidney. Egan said the lawsuit seeks damages for excessive force and battery and for negligence because the Redmond Police Department allegedly failed to properly train and supervise their officers. After the incident, Fuchs said she suffered ongoing pain at the entry site of a second probe on her elbow, and she has been diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder. She said the incident has left her unable to sleep without medication and fearful of police. ``I'm afraid that if I ever am in a medical emergency I wouldn't be able to call the police department,'' she said. And you have never heard of misuse of CS spray, or a baton, or a firearm by police officers? Why focus solely on Tasers? They were never presented as a failsafe cannot be misused LE tool, Greg. Even hands and feet can be misused. Consider in that last case had the officer used his CS or baton? Suppose, as has happened, the lady, after appearing to refuse to respond to the officer's commands, reached for her purse and pulled something that resembled at first glance a mix of metallic shiny and dark metal coloring? Heck, my cellphone looks that that in fact. She had just rammed another car, remember? She's at least alive to sue. Doesn't that make you happy? Now YOU find an absolutely fool proof tool for law enforcement in such situations and I'll find seed money and we can put it on the market. You could make a lot of money honestly, instead of your way now. Wouldn't you like that? So, what have you got? 0:- |
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Taser Fiascos
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How did you like that story about the cop who pulled the wrong gun? Are you still lobbying for the Taser industry? Greegor wrote: http://www1.kitsapsun.com/bsun/local...074940,00.html Police Coax Man Down from Rooftop By Kitsap Sun staff October 18, 2006 Bremerton A Bremerton man who was accidentally shot by Kitsap County sheriff's deputies in June had another encounter with law enforcement officers Monday night after he climbed onto the roof of a home wearing nothing but a T-shirt around his waist. But this time the outcome was different. Police "coaxed" the 32-year-old man from the roof of the Madrona Point Drive home after talking with him for about a half hour, according to the Bremerton officers' reports. An officer responded to the home shortly after 6 p.m. as the homeowner announced to him simply, "There's a guy on my roof," reports said. Officers had been inundated with 911 calls about the man on the roof for about an hour before they arrived. The first officer on scene said the man appeared to "be on drugs" and was wearing a "gray T-shirt he fashioned into a loincloth" and had wrapped around his waist, reports said. The man was familiar to officers as the same person accidentally shot by Kitsap County sheriff's deputies in Navy Yard City back in June. In the June incident, the man had climbed a tree and had reportedly been talking to himself. Deputies came to the scene in an effort to remove him from the tree, and one deputy mistakenly fired a gun rather than a Taser to bring him down. In Monday's episode, officers said they "coaxed" him from the roof, and at one point, the man even said that "he didn't want to get shot again," reports said. After about a half hour, the man came down from the roof and officers handcuffed him with Tasers drawn. He was taken to Harrison Medical Center for an evaluation. The homeowner declined to file any criminal charges, police said. Veteran Kitsap County Washington Deputy Sheriff Mistakes His Pistol For A Taser, Shoots Man In Tree Who Had Done Nothing To Anyone 2006-06-23 BREMERTON, WASHINGTON -- The Kitsap County Sheriff's Office has placed a deputy on administrative leave after the deputy shot and wounded a man in a tree with his gun instead of a Taser, the sheriff's office said. [They've failed to release this dumbass cop's name. Obviously, this is going to cost Kitsap County a whole lot of money before it's over. Anyone who has ever held a Glock and a Taser knows the feel is nowhere near similar. ] The deputy meant to fire the Taser and not his gun on Thursday, but grabbed the wrong weapon, sheriff's office spokesman Scott Wilson told the Kitsap Sun. The deputy has been with the sheriff's office for five years. Deputies carry both a Taser and a gun on their utility belts. The Taser used is similar in shape to the .40-caliber compact model gun the deputy used, Wilson said. The Taser is a handheld weapon that delivers an electric shock via two stainless steel barbs. The man had been climbed high up a fig tree and had been there for several hours. The shooting is under investigation by State Patrol detectives, Wilson said. The man, believed to be in his 20s, was wounded in the leg and airlifted to Seattle's Harborview Medical Center, where he was listed in satisfactory condition. Deputies and Bremerton Fire and Rescue personnel were called to the site of the tree after an employee of a local business reported the man had climbed the tree and was acting strangely. The man had been in the tree and talking to himself when one employee arrived at work at 7:30 a.m. Deputies and rescue personnel attempted to coax the man from the tree for almost two hours before he was shot. During that time, the man was becoming increasingly hostile toward rescue personnel and deputies trying to get him out of the tree, witness David Blakeslee told the newspaper. Deputies were unsure whether the man was intoxicated, on drugs, or possibly experiencing a psychotic episode. They wanted to get him down before he hurt himself or others, Wilson said. One deputy attempted to discharge a Taser at the man, but when it did not work asked another deputy to fire a Taser. Instead of grabbing the Taser, the deputy grabbed and fired the gun, Wilson said. Blakeslee, an employee with nearby B&B Auto Repair, described the man's reaction to getting shot. "He said, 'Ow, that hurt, I'm coming down, I'm coming down,'" Blakeslee said. The man climbed down the tree on his own where medical personnel were waiting, Blakeslee said. Police Officers "Accidentally" Shoot Man In Tree - Moron Cop Couldn't Tell The Difference Between A Taser And A Firearm 2006-06-22 KITSAP COUNTY, WASHINGTON. -- Officers responding to a welfare check of a man in a tree in Kitsap County accidentally shot the man in an attempt to use a Taser on him. The man had been holed up in the tree for hours. An officer used his Taser on the man and after it had no affect, the officer asked another officer to Taser the man. The other officer accidentally used his gun instead of his Taser and the man in the tree was shot. The man sustained one gunshot wound and was taken to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. Woman hit by Taser files suit: 32-year-old says she was in diabetic shock when police officer shot her in her car 2006-05-08 REDMOND, WA - A former Microsoft worker says a Redmond police lieutenant shot her with 50,000 volts of electricity from a Taser gun while she sat helpless in her car, stricken by diabetic shock. Leila Fuchs said police assumed she was drunk, but it was low blood sugar that made her incoherent. Either way, she said, she didn't deserve to be shocked by someone who should have been trained to recognize her condition. ``I was so out of it. There was no way I could've been a threat to anyone,'' said Fuchs, 32, who underwent a kidney transplant seven years ago. In his own report of the July 10 incident, Redmond police Lt. Charlie Gorman said Fuchs did nothing more than sit silently behind her steering wheel when he smashed the passenger-side window of her Chrysler Sebring and shot her with an electric stun gun because she refused to unlock her door. Fuchs' attorney, James Egan, filed a civil lawsuit Friday in King County Superior Court, naming Gorman as well as two other officers, Redmond Police Chief Steve Harris and the city of Redmond. The lawsuit seeks $1 million in damages for excessive force and negligence. In his report on the incident, which followed a fender-bender on 148th Avenue Northeast near Old Redmond Road, Gorman wrote that officers could smell alcohol coming from the inside of Fuchs' car, even though the car's doors were locked and its windows rolled up. Gorman said he identified himself and ordered Fuchs to unlock her door, but she failed to respond and stared straight ahead. After issuing a warning, the lieutenant used to tool to break the car's passenger-side window. He then unlocked the passenger-side door and again ordered her to unlock her driver-side door. But Fuchs just stared at him, he said. ``I produced my X-26 Taser and told her that if she did not comply with my order to unlock her door that I was going to use my Taser on her,'' Gorman wrote in his report. ``She looked away from me without responding and stared straight ahead. I shouted the Taser warning and deployed my Taser from a distance of five feet. The female reacted by screaming and stiffening her body.'' The lawsuit says Gorman then forced Fuchs to the ground and placed her in handcuffs. Minutes later, a follow-up police report says, fire department personnel examined Fuchs at the scene and determined her blood-sugar level was at 44, well below the normal level of 80-120. They offered her 15 grams of glucose and two glucose drinks, and Fuchs gradually became coherent. A breath test shortly after the incident revealed no presence of alcohol, according to Gorman's police report. ``The thing that really bothers me,'' Fuchs said Friday, ``is that the police department was completely unresponsive to me after the incident. ... They act like nothing happened.'' ``I want the public to know that there is a complete lack of training in the Redmond Police Department when it comes to medical issues like diabetic hypoglycemic shock.'' Redmond police spokeswoman Stacey Holland said Thursday she could not comment on the case involving Fuchs now that a civil lawsuit has been filed. Calls to Gorman and Redmond City Attorney Jim Haney were not returned Friday. When she was at the hospital after being shocked with the Taser, Fuchs said, an officer told her that Gorman used the Taser because he thought she was drunk and she was ignoring his commands. Court records show Fuchs has never been convicted of a crime or cited for a driving infraction in Washington state. A Bellevue resident at the time of the incident, she declined to reveal where she now lives during a phone interview with the Journal. Fuchs said she was on her way to her former job at Microsoft about noon that Sunday when she apparently slipped into a hypoglycemic episode and rear-ended another car at 10-15 mph on148th Avenue Northeast. When asked by the first responding officer if she had had anything to drink that day, Fuchs said no. It was the first time she had slipped into a hypoglycemic episode since before she underwent a kidney transplant in 1999, Fuchs said. She hasn't experienced another episode since the July 10 incident. Egan, Fuchs' attorney, said the physical force used by police was unwarranted and could've caused her serious complications. One of the Taser's electric probes entered her skin just a few inches from her transplanted kidney. Egan said the lawsuit seeks damages for excessive force and battery and for negligence because the Redmond Police Department allegedly failed to properly train and supervise their officers. After the incident, Fuchs said she suffered ongoing pain at the entry site of a second probe on her elbow, and she has been diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder. She said the incident has left her unable to sleep without medication and fearful of police. ``I'm afraid that if I ever am in a medical emergency I wouldn't be able to call the police department,'' she said. |
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Kane: How did you like that story about the cop who pulled the wrong gun? Are you still lobbying for the Taser industry? Until I have solid evidence that Taser's are as or more dangerous as guns given both are used as required by manufacturers and PD policy, yes, I'll support the use of them. So far the numbers of actual deaths from Taser use are, per use, very low rate compared to what happens when a perp is hit by gunfire. You have evidence otherwise? I beg you, please share. If the facts prove me wrong, well then I'll surely admit I'm wrong, and advocate for guns for all those circumstances Taser was deployed and caused harm. Would you prefer that? Or possibly CS, or maybe a baton? Do you have data on catastrophic events that resulted in injury or death with those tools of the LE trade? Most Taser RELATED deaths have turned out to be other conditions, like OD on drugs, and they death would have occurred with or without Taser, and most assuredly if other force had been used. Cops can kill and injure with lots of things besides Taser, Greg, and they do. Sometimes not deliberately, and in fact, it best not be deliberately. The rule is, apply the level of force necessary to STOP the perp. If the perp doesn't stop, escalate either the amount, or move to a higher level of instrument of force. And no cop is required to keep his or her gun holstered even if the threat action is NOT already underway. Figure it out for yourself. You are a lazy, stupid, good for nothing, do nothing piece of crap, that constantly tries to second guess others that put their asses on the line, Greg. You can't even leave PARENTS involved with CPS alone but attack them as well. Any excuse? A disability perhaps? Kane Greegor wrote: http://www1.kitsapsun.com/bsun/local...074940,00.html Police Coax Man Down from Rooftop By Kitsap Sun staff October 18, 2006 Bremerton A Bremerton man who was accidentally shot by Kitsap County sheriff's deputies in June had another encounter with law enforcement officers Monday night after he climbed onto the roof of a home wearing nothing but a T-shirt around his waist. But this time the outcome was different. Police "coaxed" the 32-year-old man from the roof of the Madrona Point Drive home after talking with him for about a half hour, according to the Bremerton officers' reports. An officer responded to the home shortly after 6 p.m. as the homeowner announced to him simply, "There's a guy on my roof," reports said. Officers had been inundated with 911 calls about the man on the roof for about an hour before they arrived. The first officer on scene said the man appeared to "be on drugs" and was wearing a "gray T-shirt he fashioned into a loincloth" and had wrapped around his waist, reports said. The man was familiar to officers as the same person accidentally shot by Kitsap County sheriff's deputies in Navy Yard City back in June. In the June incident, the man had climbed a tree and had reportedly been talking to himself. Deputies came to the scene in an effort to remove him from the tree, and one deputy mistakenly fired a gun rather than a Taser to bring him down. In Monday's episode, officers said they "coaxed" him from the roof, and at one point, the man even said that "he didn't want to get shot again," reports said. After about a half hour, the man came down from the roof and officers handcuffed him with Tasers drawn. He was taken to Harrison Medical Center for an evaluation. The homeowner declined to file any criminal charges, police said. Veteran Kitsap County Washington Deputy Sheriff Mistakes His Pistol For A Taser, Shoots Man In Tree Who Had Done Nothing To Anyone 2006-06-23 BREMERTON, WASHINGTON -- The Kitsap County Sheriff's Office has placed a deputy on administrative leave after the deputy shot and wounded a man in a tree with his gun instead of a Taser, the sheriff's office said. [They've failed to release this dumbass cop's name. Obviously, this is going to cost Kitsap County a whole lot of money before it's over. Anyone who has ever held a Glock and a Taser knows the feel is nowhere near similar. ] The deputy meant to fire the Taser and not his gun on Thursday, but grabbed the wrong weapon, sheriff's office spokesman Scott Wilson told the Kitsap Sun. The deputy has been with the sheriff's office for five years. Deputies carry both a Taser and a gun on their utility belts. The Taser used is similar in shape to the .40-caliber compact model gun the deputy used, Wilson said. The Taser is a handheld weapon that delivers an electric shock via two stainless steel barbs. The man had been climbed high up a fig tree and had been there for several hours. The shooting is under investigation by State Patrol detectives, Wilson said. The man, believed to be in his 20s, was wounded in the leg and airlifted to Seattle's Harborview Medical Center, where he was listed in satisfactory condition. Deputies and Bremerton Fire and Rescue personnel were called to the site of the tree after an employee of a local business reported the man had climbed the tree and was acting strangely. The man had been in the tree and talking to himself when one employee arrived at work at 7:30 a.m. Deputies and rescue personnel attempted to coax the man from the tree for almost two hours before he was shot. During that time, the man was becoming increasingly hostile toward rescue personnel and deputies trying to get him out of the tree, witness David Blakeslee told the newspaper. Deputies were unsure whether the man was intoxicated, on drugs, or possibly experiencing a psychotic episode. They wanted to get him down before he hurt himself or others, Wilson said. One deputy attempted to discharge a Taser at the man, but when it did not work asked another deputy to fire a Taser. Instead of grabbing the Taser, the deputy grabbed and fired the gun, Wilson said. Blakeslee, an employee with nearby B&B Auto Repair, described the man's reaction to getting shot. "He said, 'Ow, that hurt, I'm coming down, I'm coming down,'" Blakeslee said. The man climbed down the tree on his own where medical personnel were waiting, Blakeslee said. Police Officers "Accidentally" Shoot Man In Tree - Moron Cop Couldn't Tell The Difference Between A Taser And A Firearm 2006-06-22 KITSAP COUNTY, WASHINGTON. -- Officers responding to a welfare check of a man in a tree in Kitsap County accidentally shot the man in an attempt to use a Taser on him. The man had been holed up in the tree for hours. An officer used his Taser on the man and after it had no affect, the officer asked another officer to Taser the man. The other officer accidentally used his gun instead of his Taser and the man in the tree was shot. The man sustained one gunshot wound and was taken to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. Woman hit by Taser files suit: 32-year-old says she was in diabetic shock when police officer shot her in her car 2006-05-08 REDMOND, WA - A former Microsoft worker says a Redmond police lieutenant shot her with 50,000 volts of electricity from a Taser gun while she sat helpless in her car, stricken by diabetic shock. Leila Fuchs said police assumed she was drunk, but it was low blood sugar that made her incoherent. Either way, she said, she didn't deserve to be shocked by someone who should have been trained to recognize her condition. ``I was so out of it. There was no way I could've been a threat to anyone,'' said Fuchs, 32, who underwent a kidney transplant seven years ago. In his own report of the July 10 incident, Redmond police Lt. Charlie Gorman said Fuchs did nothing more than sit silently behind her steering wheel when he smashed the passenger-side window of her Chrysler Sebring and shot her with an electric stun gun because she refused to unlock her door. Fuchs' attorney, James Egan, filed a civil lawsuit Friday in King County Superior Court, naming Gorman as well as two other officers, Redmond Police Chief Steve Harris and the city of Redmond. The lawsuit seeks $1 million in damages for excessive force and negligence. In his report on the incident, which followed a fender-bender on 148th Avenue Northeast near Old Redmond Road, Gorman wrote that officers could smell alcohol coming from the inside of Fuchs' car, even though the car's doors were locked and its windows rolled up. Gorman said he identified himself and ordered Fuchs to unlock her door, but she failed to respond and stared straight ahead. After issuing a warning, the lieutenant used to tool to break the car's passenger-side window. He then unlocked the passenger-side door and again ordered her to unlock her driver-side door. But Fuchs just stared at him, he said. ``I produced my X-26 Taser and told her that if she did not comply with my order to unlock her door that I was going to use my Taser on her,'' Gorman wrote in his report. ``She looked away from me without responding and stared straight ahead. I shouted the Taser warning and deployed my Taser from a distance of five feet. The female reacted by screaming and stiffening her body.'' The lawsuit says Gorman then forced Fuchs to the ground and placed her in handcuffs. Minutes later, a follow-up police report says, fire department personnel examined Fuchs at the scene and determined her blood-sugar level was at 44, well below the normal level of 80-120. They offered her 15 grams of glucose and two glucose drinks, and Fuchs gradually became coherent. A breath test shortly after the incident revealed no presence of alcohol, according to Gorman's police report. ``The thing that really bothers me,'' Fuchs said Friday, ``is that the police department was completely unresponsive to me after the incident. ... They act like nothing happened.'' ``I want the public to know that there is a complete lack of training in the Redmond Police Department when it comes to medical issues like diabetic hypoglycemic shock.'' Redmond police spokeswoman Stacey Holland said Thursday she could not comment on the case involving Fuchs now that a civil lawsuit has been filed. Calls to Gorman and Redmond City Attorney Jim Haney were not returned Friday. When she was at the hospital after being shocked with the Taser, Fuchs said, an officer told her that Gorman used the Taser because he thought she was drunk and she was ignoring his commands. Court records show Fuchs has never been convicted of a crime or cited for a driving infraction in Washington state. A Bellevue resident at the time of the incident, she declined to reveal where she now lives during a phone interview with the Journal. Fuchs said she was on her way to her former job at Microsoft about noon that Sunday when she apparently slipped into a hypoglycemic episode and rear-ended another car at 10-15 mph on148th Avenue Northeast. When asked by the first responding officer if she had had anything to drink that day, Fuchs said no. It was the first time she had slipped into a hypoglycemic episode since before she underwent a kidney transplant in 1999, Fuchs said. She hasn't experienced another episode since the July 10 incident. Egan, Fuchs' attorney, said the physical force used by police was unwarranted and could've caused her serious complications. One of the Taser's electric probes entered her skin just a few inches from her transplanted kidney. Egan said the lawsuit seeks damages for excessive force and battery and for negligence because the Redmond Police Department allegedly failed to properly train and supervise their officers. After the incident, Fuchs said she suffered ongoing pain at the entry site of a second probe on her elbow, and she has been diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder. She said the incident has left her unable to sleep without medication and fearful of police. ``I'm afraid that if I ever am in a medical emergency I wouldn't be able to call the police department,'' she said. |
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Taser Fiascos
Greegor wrote:
Kane: How did you like that story about the cop who pulled the wrong gun? Gosh, Greg, excuse me. I've been hanging around you and Doan so long I actually failed to answer your question, and I presume it was important or you wouldn't have asked it, right? My response? Bad Cop, no donut. (lucky he didn't kill someone) Are you still lobbying for the Taser industry? Answered in prior post. Kane Greegor wrote: http://www1.kitsapsun.com/bsun/local...074940,00.html Police Coax Man Down from Rooftop By Kitsap Sun staff October 18, 2006 Bremerton A Bremerton man who was accidentally shot by Kitsap County sheriff's deputies in June had another encounter with law enforcement officers Monday night after he climbed onto the roof of a home wearing nothing but a T-shirt around his waist. But this time the outcome was different. Police "coaxed" the 32-year-old man from the roof of the Madrona Point Drive home after talking with him for about a half hour, according to the Bremerton officers' reports. An officer responded to the home shortly after 6 p.m. as the homeowner announced to him simply, "There's a guy on my roof," reports said. Officers had been inundated with 911 calls about the man on the roof for about an hour before they arrived. The first officer on scene said the man appeared to "be on drugs" and was wearing a "gray T-shirt he fashioned into a loincloth" and had wrapped around his waist, reports said. The man was familiar to officers as the same person accidentally shot by Kitsap County sheriff's deputies in Navy Yard City back in June. In the June incident, the man had climbed a tree and had reportedly been talking to himself. Deputies came to the scene in an effort to remove him from the tree, and one deputy mistakenly fired a gun rather than a Taser to bring him down. In Monday's episode, officers said they "coaxed" him from the roof, and at one point, the man even said that "he didn't want to get shot again," reports said. After about a half hour, the man came down from the roof and officers handcuffed him with Tasers drawn. He was taken to Harrison Medical Center for an evaluation. The homeowner declined to file any criminal charges, police said. Veteran Kitsap County Washington Deputy Sheriff Mistakes His Pistol For A Taser, Shoots Man In Tree Who Had Done Nothing To Anyone 2006-06-23 BREMERTON, WASHINGTON -- The Kitsap County Sheriff's Office has placed a deputy on administrative leave after the deputy shot and wounded a man in a tree with his gun instead of a Taser, the sheriff's office said. [They've failed to release this dumbass cop's name. Obviously, this is going to cost Kitsap County a whole lot of money before it's over. Anyone who has ever held a Glock and a Taser knows the feel is nowhere near similar. ] The deputy meant to fire the Taser and not his gun on Thursday, but grabbed the wrong weapon, sheriff's office spokesman Scott Wilson told the Kitsap Sun. The deputy has been with the sheriff's office for five years. Deputies carry both a Taser and a gun on their utility belts. The Taser used is similar in shape to the .40-caliber compact model gun the deputy used, Wilson said. The Taser is a handheld weapon that delivers an electric shock via two stainless steel barbs. The man had been climbed high up a fig tree and had been there for several hours. The shooting is under investigation by State Patrol detectives, Wilson said. The man, believed to be in his 20s, was wounded in the leg and airlifted to Seattle's Harborview Medical Center, where he was listed in satisfactory condition. Deputies and Bremerton Fire and Rescue personnel were called to the site of the tree after an employee of a local business reported the man had climbed the tree and was acting strangely. The man had been in the tree and talking to himself when one employee arrived at work at 7:30 a.m. Deputies and rescue personnel attempted to coax the man from the tree for almost two hours before he was shot. During that time, the man was becoming increasingly hostile toward rescue personnel and deputies trying to get him out of the tree, witness David Blakeslee told the newspaper. Deputies were unsure whether the man was intoxicated, on drugs, or possibly experiencing a psychotic episode. They wanted to get him down before he hurt himself or others, Wilson said. One deputy attempted to discharge a Taser at the man, but when it did not work asked another deputy to fire a Taser. Instead of grabbing the Taser, the deputy grabbed and fired the gun, Wilson said. Blakeslee, an employee with nearby B&B Auto Repair, described the man's reaction to getting shot. "He said, 'Ow, that hurt, I'm coming down, I'm coming down,'" Blakeslee said. The man climbed down the tree on his own where medical personnel were waiting, Blakeslee said. Police Officers "Accidentally" Shoot Man In Tree - Moron Cop Couldn't Tell The Difference Between A Taser And A Firearm 2006-06-22 KITSAP COUNTY, WASHINGTON. -- Officers responding to a welfare check of a man in a tree in Kitsap County accidentally shot the man in an attempt to use a Taser on him. The man had been holed up in the tree for hours. An officer used his Taser on the man and after it had no affect, the officer asked another officer to Taser the man. The other officer accidentally used his gun instead of his Taser and the man in the tree was shot. The man sustained one gunshot wound and was taken to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. Woman hit by Taser files suit: 32-year-old says she was in diabetic shock when police officer shot her in her car 2006-05-08 REDMOND, WA - A former Microsoft worker says a Redmond police lieutenant shot her with 50,000 volts of electricity from a Taser gun while she sat helpless in her car, stricken by diabetic shock. Leila Fuchs said police assumed she was drunk, but it was low blood sugar that made her incoherent. Either way, she said, she didn't deserve to be shocked by someone who should have been trained to recognize her condition. ``I was so out of it. There was no way I could've been a threat to anyone,'' said Fuchs, 32, who underwent a kidney transplant seven years ago. In his own report of the July 10 incident, Redmond police Lt. Charlie Gorman said Fuchs did nothing more than sit silently behind her steering wheel when he smashed the passenger-side window of her Chrysler Sebring and shot her with an electric stun gun because she refused to unlock her door. Fuchs' attorney, James Egan, filed a civil lawsuit Friday in King County Superior Court, naming Gorman as well as two other officers, Redmond Police Chief Steve Harris and the city of Redmond. The lawsuit seeks $1 million in damages for excessive force and negligence. In his report on the incident, which followed a fender-bender on 148th Avenue Northeast near Old Redmond Road, Gorman wrote that officers could smell alcohol coming from the inside of Fuchs' car, even though the car's doors were locked and its windows rolled up. Gorman said he identified himself and ordered Fuchs to unlock her door, but she failed to respond and stared straight ahead. After issuing a warning, the lieutenant used to tool to break the car's passenger-side window. He then unlocked the passenger-side door and again ordered her to unlock her driver-side door. But Fuchs just stared at him, he said. ``I produced my X-26 Taser and told her that if she did not comply with my order to unlock her door that I was going to use my Taser on her,'' Gorman wrote in his report. ``She looked away from me without responding and stared straight ahead. I shouted the Taser warning and deployed my Taser from a distance of five feet. The female reacted by screaming and stiffening her body.'' The lawsuit says Gorman then forced Fuchs to the ground and placed her in handcuffs. Minutes later, a follow-up police report says, fire department personnel examined Fuchs at the scene and determined her blood-sugar level was at 44, well below the normal level of 80-120. They offered her 15 grams of glucose and two glucose drinks, and Fuchs gradually became coherent. A breath test shortly after the incident revealed no presence of alcohol, according to Gorman's police report. ``The thing that really bothers me,'' Fuchs said Friday, ``is that the police department was completely unresponsive to me after the incident. ... They act like nothing happened.'' ``I want the public to know that there is a complete lack of training in the Redmond Police Department when it comes to medical issues like diabetic hypoglycemic shock.'' Redmond police spokeswoman Stacey Holland said Thursday she could not comment on the case involving Fuchs now that a civil lawsuit has been filed. Calls to Gorman and Redmond City Attorney Jim Haney were not returned Friday. When she was at the hospital after being shocked with the Taser, Fuchs said, an officer told her that Gorman used the Taser because he thought she was drunk and she was ignoring his commands. Court records show Fuchs has never been convicted of a crime or cited for a driving infraction in Washington state. A Bellevue resident at the time of the incident, she declined to reveal where she now lives during a phone interview with the Journal. Fuchs said she was on her way to her former job at Microsoft about noon that Sunday when she apparently slipped into a hypoglycemic episode and rear-ended another car at 10-15 mph on148th Avenue Northeast. When asked by the first responding officer if she had had anything to drink that day, Fuchs said no. It was the first time she had slipped into a hypoglycemic episode since before she underwent a kidney transplant in 1999, Fuchs said. She hasn't experienced another episode since the July 10 incident. Egan, Fuchs' attorney, said the physical force used by police was unwarranted and could've caused her serious complications. One of the Taser's electric probes entered her skin just a few inches from her transplanted kidney. Egan said the lawsuit seeks damages for excessive force and battery and for negligence because the Redmond Police Department allegedly failed to properly train and supervise their officers. After the incident, Fuchs said she suffered ongoing pain at the entry site of a second probe on her elbow, and she has been diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder. She said the incident has left her unable to sleep without medication and fearful of police. ``I'm afraid that if I ever am in a medical emergency I wouldn't be able to call the police department,'' she said. |
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