Comments on: Taser Deaths Lead to Call to Limit Police Use

By: Deanna

Deanna — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 17:01:31 +0000

My son suffered a gran mal seizure. His brother phoned 911 for medical assistance. When the firefighters/paramendics arrived, my son was in the postictal stage of his seizure and unable to understand and/or comply to commands. His brother informed the paramedics as this stage follows every one of his seizures. The firefighters tried to strap him on a gurney and in his confusion, my son resisted. The police were called and upon their arrival, they tazed my son 13 time (the tazer gun was actually fired 15 times). During this time, his lower body was strapped to the gurney. The other officers and their reports claim he was tazed one time….I heard, via cell phone, a minimum of 5 tazes and my son screaming. The emotional damage suffered can never be undone. Something must be done to train and educate the very people that we depend on for help, the people that are supposed to “protect and serve”.
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By: Candice

Candice — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:49:54 +0000

So unfair to you, sorry you had to experience that. Almost like what we had experienced. I can not believe you call 911 for someone having a seizure and state to them someone is having a seizure please send me help and officers come and first thing they ask of course is this person on drugs, no this person is having a seizure and then they start immediately retraining the person, which is totally wrong not only did he suffer abuse from the Authority he also was tase more than once which could have ended his life and I had to witness the whole thing which has changed my life for ever to see a person go thru that just because a medical condition which is out of there control. I am damaged for good after experiencing seeing that and hearing him scream from being tased and to this day, he is not the same. Some damage was done to him I’m still in stock and havent been able to sleep at night because of the nightmare and fear I have of this happening all over again and will he be so lucky to survive the abuse again…. I

By: Timothy

Timothy — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:45:33 +0000

I was tasered on July 7th, 2009 after suffering a gran mal seizure during a graduate school class. The police responded and chose to taser me minutes later after I failed to comply with their orders to go with the ambulance personell. It was my right to refuse medical attention. The officer in charge tasered me in spite of the fact that he knew I had a seizure and was not completely aware of my surroundings and was not being violent in any way. Afterwards the officer charged me with harassment in the 2nd degree. I now have to go to court for this matter, and he does not have any consequences at all!