National Park Service investigates video showing a ranger using a Taser on a Native American man wal
Source: Washington Post
National Park Service investigates video showing a ranger using a Taser on a Native American man walking his dog off-trail
Darrell House, who identifies as Native American, uploaded a nearly five-minute video to social media that shows a National Park Service ranger using a Taser on him. House says the officer abused his power because he is Indigenous. (Instagram screengrab via Darrell House)
By
Andrea Salcedo
Dec. 30, 2020 at 6:21 a.m. CST
Darrell House was walking through the Petroglyph National Monument in Albuquerque on Sunday with his dog and his sister when he strayed off the marked trail. House, who identifies as Native American, says that he’s often done so in the past to pray on land he considers his ancestral home.
This time, though, he was confronted by a National Park Service ranger. Moments later, House was lying on the ground in a fetal position, crying for help as the officer repeatedly used a Taser on him.
“Stop!” House pleads with the officer in a nearly five-minute video shot by his sister. “I don’t have anything sir … I’m a peaceful person.”
House later uploaded the video to Instagram and accused the officer of abusing his power and injuring him and his dog.
“This could have been a civil interaction,” House said in a post. “The law doesn’t work for the Indigenous.”
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/12/30/native-american-man-tasered-officer/
Video shows park ranger stunning Native American man in New Mexico
A park ranger stunned Darrell House, who is Oneida and Navajo, after he stepped off a trail while on a walk at Petroglyph National Monument in Albuquerque.
Dec. 29, 2020, 12:14 PM CST / Updated Dec. 30, 2020, 11:56 AM CST
By Wilson Wong, Rima Abdelkader and Ali Gostanian
A park ranger was seen on video using a stun gun on a Native American man who was walking his dog with his sister at a national monument in New Mexico on Sunday.
The man, Darrell House, who is Oneida and Navajo, said he went for a stroll with his sister and his dog Sunday afternoon at Petroglyph National Monument in Albuquerque, where, he said, he often prays and meditates in honor of the land and his ancestors.
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House said he stepped off the trail to maintain social distancing from an approaching group of hikers when a park ranger ran behind him and warned him to stay on the path.
The National Park Service released on Tuesday a 10-minute long recording from the officer’s body camera. It appeared to show the park ranger, who has not yet been publicly identified, asking House for his identification multiple times. House initially refused to provide ID before giving a false identity and date of birth, the video shows.
More:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/video-shows-park-ranger-tasering-native-american-man-new-mexico-n1252477
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I think he should be staked to the ground next to a fire ant hill and then have honey poured over his face...and even that's better then what he deserves!!!
