Police officer uses Taser and pepper spray on a motionless, silent driver w/ medical emergency

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WASHINGTON — Newly released police body camera videos show a Fredericksburg police officer use his Taser and pepper spray on a motionless, silent driver who was having a medical emergency.

That officer, Shaun Jurgens, resigned from the city police department on May 14. But in a statement to the Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star, Jurgens says he did not violate any policies in the May 4 incident.

However the police department decided that Jurgens’ use of force was not in line with department policies or training.

The department is still reviewing whether the two other officers seen in the videos Cpl. Matt Deschenes and Sgt. Crystal Hill will face any departmental charges or reprimands stemming from the incident. They remain on duty, according to the department.

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http://wtop.com/virginia/2015/05/fredericksburg-police-release-video-of-taser-pepper-spray-incident/

[Liberal_in_LA]

1. that will teach him! how dare a citizen not respond to cops demand while unconscious

[Cal Carpenter]

3. Exactly! And how dare an infant sleep in a crib in a room that's

about to be invaded by a SWAT team? These criminals just can't seem to get it right.

eta link for context lest someone think I've totally lost my mind : http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026708231

[SwissTony]

7. That was my thought too when I first read the report about the baby. WTF!!?? n/t

[uppityperson]

4. pepper sprayed for 5 sec and they let the car roll onto his foot also.

That'll teach him.

arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[Hassin Bin Sober]

17. Keystone Pigs

[Enthusiast]

13. This could be a teachable moment.

But the cops will be too busy covering their ass.

[marym625]

2. They seem to have lost all humanity

[Demeter]

5. Not to mention upper brain function

Tell y9ou what...let's skip the robo-cars, and go for programmable cops. Then we just make sure the programming is non-violent.

[marym625]

21. sounds like a good idea to me

But it would be better, I think, to hire people with, and train with, humanity.

Whichever is better than what is going on now

[awoke_in_2003]

6. I don't think they have had that quality

in a long time. We are just getting to see more of what has been going on for a long time.

[marym625]

22. I completely agree

I do think that it happened slowly so we just didn't notice like we should have. That and the mentality that "criminals can't be trusted" even when obviously beaten to a pulp. Or the, "shiftless (word I won't even type) will do anything to escape justice."

[awoke_in_2003]

27. It has been rampant

in their treatment of the AA community for a long time. Thanks to camera phones the rest of us are finally seeing it.

[marym625]

28. absolutely

No question this is far from new. But I think that the ease at which a gun us used and the attitude of so very many cops has become more cavalier, more abusive, more everything bad, as time goes on. It's like there is zero training except, pull your weapon

[tomsaiditagain]

8. We are seeing a small part of what's in store for the world

The Corporate Police State is slowly taking over. TPP is another notch in the belt.

Bet?

[OldRedneck]

9. Let's hope the victim sues the living shit out of the department and the individual cop

My understanding is the guy was suffering a stroke.

I'm an Advanced Life Support EMT in a rural county about 2 hours away from Fredericksburg.

Most strokes -- 93% or so -- are ischemic strokes. That is, blood flow to the brain is disrupted, usually by a blood clot in an artery supplying blood to the brain. Can be partial or complete blockage; can affect a small or large area of the brain.

Either way, there's what we call The Golden Hour.

The Golden Hour is the sixty minutes from the time the stroke hits to the time the docs in the stroke center start clearing the blockage. You need to get to a stroke center within that time. Depending on the severity of the stroke, how quickly you get to a stroke center, and how quickly they open the blockage, the effects of the stroke can be completely reversed or mostly reversed or somewhat reversed.
https://www.caring.com/questions/golden-hour-stroke

Either way, when a person suffers a stroke, there is no time to waste dicking around with a half-wit cop.

EVERYONE needs to know how to recognize a stroke because strokes don't happen only to old people.
Start here:
http://www.stroke.org/understand-stroke/recognizing-stroke



NOTE: While ischemic strokes account for around 93% of strokes, the other type of stroke is a hemorrhagic stroke caused by a burst blood vessel in the brain. Hemorrhagic strokes are bad news, often fatal within minutes.

[JEB]

10. Important info, Thanks for posting.

[Oilwellian]

24. My grandmother had a Hemmorrhagic Stroke

She and my grandfather who was blind, lived in a nursing home. They found her sitting up in bed still holding a cup of coffee, and my grandfather not realizing she had passed, was chatting away with her. So sad.

I saw the OP's video last night and haven't been able to stop thinking about what this poor man went through. Not once did he ever show any aggression, and it is such an obviously clear case of white cops fearing another black man, because he's black. There needs to be a massive retraining of our police on a national scale, and the Blue Klux Klan within our police departments need to be weeded out of these positions of power over our lives.

[L0oniX]

11. They'd tazer and pepper spray a dead person for failing to obey a lawful command too.

[eggplant]

18. And then charge them with loitering.

(With apologies to George Carlin.)

[Spitfire of ATJ]

19. Most don't even KNOW they aren't supposed to punish.

[jtuck004]

12. Dang it. We used to do a sternal rub or flick their eyelashes, (people sometimes pretend to

unconsciousness). Worst case, we would pop a capsule of ammonia and hold it with our hand over your nose and mouth until you realized the game was over.
It is one of many tools used in evaluating patients.

But these new protocols. Man, if I had only had a taser - far, far quicker to find out if they are really sick or not.

And you don't even have to touch them first, like they were people.

[Enthusiast]

14. True. They could have cooties.

[MohRokTah]

15. Having a Stroke While Black, the newest crime while being black.

Is it wrong that my first thought was "Thank the Gods the poor man wasn't shot in the back by the thugs in blue"?

[MohRokTah]

16. BTW, the two officers they are deciding on are as guilty as the offending officer.

They saw and did nothing. That makes them bad cops.

The myth of the so-called "good cop" continues to be debunked.

[libdem4life]

20. I've noticed lately that the Boys that were in Blue are mostly Boys in Black. Clothes, that is.

Absolute barbarism. Cretins.

[TheSarcastinator]

23. servin' & protectin' the hell outta that sumbitch!

That man having a stroke was an immediate threat to this officer's safety.

[Sunlei]

25. forgive me, i want to cover all 3 police officers with a mountian of pepper spray!!

[mercuryblues]

26. just waiting

for the defense that the electric shock from the Taser is what saved his life and they should be given medals for heroism.

[AgingAmerican]

29. Disgusting

I saw that on Raw Story last night. Beyond words. The cop was forced to resign. The other two cops should resign too. None of them had the slightest concern for the obviously distressed man. It didn't even cross their mind.