Yet Another Tasering
Deputy uses stun-gun on 16-year-old boy:
Sheriff’s deputies used a Taser gun on Josh Welch after officers handcuffed his father, Leslie Welch, who had slit his wrists. The father suffers from schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
The teen said his dad was waiting for an ambulance, but deputies arrived first and handcuffed the bleeding man. So the teen called 911 again and asked for, “cops who could do their job.”
A deputy wrote in a sheriff’s report that the boy came at him with a lit cigarette in a threatening manner.
Ok, I know we don’t know what really happened there, but “came at him with a lit cigarette in a threatening manner?” That sounds like a Monty Python skit.
May 31st, 2005 at 1:39 pm
Handcuffed a man who had slit his wrists??? That’s got to be a mis-statement.