Family: Louisiana Police stun father as son died in house fire

[The Straight Story]

LOUISIANA, MO. -- The Missouri State Fire Marshal continues its investigation into an early morning Thursday fire that took the life of a 3-year-old Louisiana, Mo. boy.

The fire killed Riley Miller who was pronounced dead at Pike County Memorial Hospital.

The original 911 call came in at 12:58 a.m. at 405 S. Main St. Firefighters arrived at the scene at 1:03 a.m.

A city police officer stunned Riley's stepfather Ryan Miller with a Taser gun three times as he tried to enter the burning house.

http://www.connecttristates.com/news/story.aspx?id=966109#.UnXA1vmTiSA

[MannyGoldstein]

1. Dear Lord! Where do these people come from?

What accident of DNA creates people this awful?

[Fumesucker]

2. It's not DNA so much as it is culture

The culture in a fair number of police departments is just ridiculously authoritarian.

[xmas74]

3. Tasing him was wrong

but the article also states that the fire was too hot for even firefighters to enter with their gear.

It was a bad choice but it might have been what actually saved the man's life. It's an unimaginable situation either way. I know that, as a parent, I couldn't have been stopped from entering a building unless forced.

[JI7]

4. was there another way they could have stopped him from going into the house

and getting killed himself ?