Officer pulls firearm, instead of taser

[Firefly]

I agree with seatbelt laws being dumb

but still lol

[TMS951]

Guy sounds like he had a good tase ring coming his way.

Being shot was total negligence all the way up to her signed off on her training saying she was competent.

She should have never been a police officer.

And all because of a seat belt ticket. What BS clickit or ticket is just more theft. What does it matter if someone wares a seat belt. Who are the police and politicians to say a person has to ware a seat belt.

I hope she only makes minimum wage doing manual labor the rest of her life.

I’d say he deserves something, probably a good tasering. But instead he got shot, he should get some money for that. Dirt bag or not. However it should come out of the police pension fund. Not from tax payers.

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

The guy is belligerent and not following orders for a long time. As soon as you try to remove him from the car and he resists, why not just OC his ass?

The good news is that any money that asshole wins in a lawsuit is going to end up back in the community faster than you can say Cheap whores, expensive liquor , and lottery tickets.

[TommyG]

3- if you plug someone with your partner as a backstop, when you meant to tase them, it goes without saying you are too stupid to say the perp was on top of your partner pummeling his head into the pavement and you took a risky shot to save his life.

I am amazed she did not kill her partner in the process. That was just crazy to watch.

[26 Inf]

Always glad to learn from the use-of-force experts on the forum.

There are a couple of things I noticed:

1) she crawled right into the car after her partner did (not necessarily the best thing for two guns to be rasslin' with a suspect, but showed spirit);

2) when the guy came out of the car with the officer, she was also right out of the car and beating feet around the car to back him up;

3) she didn't hesitate when she saw the officer down, she drew - called TASER, TASER (I heard it twice) and then shot;

4) even after she has just discharged her firearm when she meant to use her TASER, she holstered and helped handcuff the guy (again not classic contact/cover tactics, but shows spirit).

To me, this was clearly a slip and capture error, not a fear bite. In addition, the situation that Officer Blood approached on the other side of the car was one in which may have very well justified lethal force at that point, apparently someone else agrees:

Case dismissed against ex-Lawrence police officer who shot man during traffic stop

A judge has dismissed the case against a former Lawrence police officer who shot a man during a traffic stop last year and was charged with reckless aggravated battery.

The officer who fired the shot, Brindley Blood, was charged in Douglas County District Court. Blood had maintained the May 29 shooting was accidental and she meant to reach for her stun gun instead of her firearm.

A news release from county prosecutor’s office Wednesday said a judge dismissed the case.

An order signed by Douglas County District Court Judge Peggy Kittel said Blood would not stand trial on the criminal charge after the court considered evidence heard in a preliminary hearing last week.

The judge ruled that the evidence presented didn’t show probable cause that the officer acted recklessly.

https://www.kansascity.com/news/loca...#storylink=cpy

There have been several higher-profile slip and capture error cases involving TASERS in the last couple years. All you budding use-of-force expert witnesses need to plus up on the phenomenon.

The TASER course is woefully inadequate IMHO. It is geared primarily to reduce TASER's liability from use of the TASER devices, and does very little to instill tactical competency in the TASER's actual usage. Unfortunately, most agencies feel they are covered by the manufacturers courses (same is true of Less-Lethal projectiles and OC) and don't do any additional training. Our 8 hour TASER Tactics Course never got off the ground, largely IMO because agencies said, 'wait, we recertify them when the company says so.'

I'm sure the Lawrence trainers diligently followed the course curriculum set out by TASER, but the fact is that course doesn't require sufficient draws and activations over a long enough period of time to develop enough neural imprinting to over ride the pistol draw stroke movement. It would be interesting to see the video slowed and enhanced to see if Officer Blood also made a motion to sweep the safety off as she brought the Glock into position to fire.

BTW: She wasn't fired, she resigned.

[Buncheong]

Wow ... that’s bad.

I could never do their job. I’d go nuts.

I think seatbelt tickets are BS but then again I’d never go body on a policeman. It’s basically a death wish.

[P2000]

I wonder if the driver had suspended license, probation, no insurance, and/or warrant.

[The_War_Wagon]

I'd like it to be one of those decisions, where the judge recognizes that the cop was in the wrong with the shooting, but since the driver brought it on himself, damages awarded shall be: ONE dollar.

[AndyLate]

I'd like it to be one of those decisions, where the judge recognizes that the cop was in the wrong with the shooting, but since the driver brought it on himself, damages awarded shall be: ONE dollar.

I would like the judge to make him pay his ticket and tell him that if he wasn't acting like a dumbass he wouldn't have gotten shot.

I've gotten pulled over for b.s. stops - I was pissed but polite and got warnings and went about my day, except for the time I innocently (I swear to God) asked a Cullman Al police officer if he got out of the Army on an overweight discharge whole he was telling my buddy and I about his time in the service . In my defense, I was young, he was a big ol' boy, and the stop sign he ticketed me for was literally hidden behind a tree. Unlike Ron White, I wasn't really curious how many redneck cops it would take to whoop my ass so I smiled, wished fat boy a good night, and headed on down the road.

Andy

[Moose-Knuckle]

@ 7:10 you can see the suspect clearly body slam the male officer to the pavement, fall on top of him, and hammer fist his skull into the pavement.

The officer is wearing a sidearm.

If I was on her grand jury I wouldn't have an issue with the female officer's actions.

YMMV.

File this under stupid laws + stupid people who want to assault armed enforcers of said stupid laws = winning stupid prizes.

I wonder if the driver had suspended license, probation, no insurance, and/or warrant.

Yeah when I heard the suspect say; "I axed him to see a soup-O-visor" I was thinking he must have been ride'n dirty.