Death by Cattle Prod

A Georgia man died after police shocked him with a Taser as many as 13 times because he said he was too tired to walk due to a foot chase, his attorney said this week.

At a press conference on Tuesday, attorney Chris Stewart said that police records showed that East Point officers had discharged their Tasers 13 times to make Gregory Towns, who was handcuffed, get up and walk.

“This is a direct violation of their own rules,” Stewart explained, according to WSB-TV. “You cannot use a Taser to escort or prod a subject.”

“They used their Tasers as a cattle prod on Mr. Towns.”

Stewart said that he pieced together what led up to Towns’ April 11 death using official city records and eyewitness accounts.

“He wasn’t cursing. He wasn’t being abusive. He was saying, ‘I’m tired,’” the attorney pointed out.

Taser logs showed that Sgt. Marcus Eberhart fired his Taser 10 times, and officer Howard Weems pulled the trigger three times.

In all, records indicated a total shock time of 47 seconds. Stewart called the situation “indefensible.”

Autopsy results obtained by WSB-TV showed that Towns’ death was ruled a homicide because the Taser shocks — combined with physical activity and heart disease — contributed to his death.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/27/georgia-cops-fired-taser-13-times-as-a-cattle-prod-to-make-tired-man-walk-before-he-died/

If all that is like it's being reported, then those cops should be tried, convicted and hung for murder.
And for seaoat's benefit, yes if it was my brother or father or son who was the victim, those cops would already be dead.

Testimony that the LEO community has developed a culture embracing antics such as this and the politicians have passed laws that seem to accommodate this culture of death obviously give too much wiggle room (latitude) to use deadly force . . . . as Mr. Oats has properly described it as the wussification of the American police officer. It's a miracle they didn't just shoot his butt on the spot . . .

Off topic I guess... but my cousins and brothers and I used to pop each other on the ass with cattle prods. They hurt like hell... your whole ass muscle would contract into a golf ball. The best was when you caught someone sitting on a fence... the zap would send you flying into the pen... good times.