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Hugabear

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Thu Jul 18, 2013, 07:49 PM Jul 2013

Sanford PD at it again - tasering a black man in the back of the head [View all]



http://www.wftv.com/news/news/local/man-falls-face-first-concrete-after-sanford-office/nYsJs/

Two officers from the Sanford Police Department are under investigation after a man wound up in the hospital after being shot with a Taser during his arrest on Sunday.

Investigators said officers attempted to arrest 57-year-old Samuel Fuller for gambling in the streets, but he took off running.

The officers shot Fuller with a Taser during his arrest, but they said he fell to the ground face-first and had to be hospitalized.

Fuller said he doesn't remember much, but he claims he wasn't gambling and was simply on his way home from the grocery store Sunday. He said that's the last thing he remembers before waking up in the hospital.



Mind you this is the SAME police department that said basically said "nothing to see here" after Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin in cold blood.

This is the SAME police department that did nothing when the son of a policeman punched and knocked out a black homeless man in 2010.

Sounds like despite getting a new police chief, the Sanford PD hasn't changed one bit.
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Funny, I thought tazers were supposed to be alternatives to sidearms... you know, for defense? Scootaloo Jul 2013 #1
If this man was "gambling in the street" surely there must be others who can/should verify this. I monmouth3 Jul 2013 #2
+1 freshwest Jul 2013 #5
Surely they have shoulder video cams JimDandy Jul 2013 #10
+2 JustAnotherGen Jul 2013 #22
There is no reason to believe government officials from Sanford. Dawson Leery Jul 2013 #3
Street gambling?! LittleBlue Jul 2013 #4
I lost a watch... awoke_in_2003 Jul 2013 #20
Gambling in the street? HappyMe Jul 2013 #6
Damn these police are out of control felix_numinous Jul 2013 #7
what does that even mean ? was he gambling with others ? JI7 Jul 2013 #8
He was betting noamnety Jul 2013 #9
scratch off lottery ticket rurallib Jul 2013 #12
The Feds need to investigate these sorry excuses for law officers. They're incompetent, racist... BlueJazz Jul 2013 #11
Paging RFK's Justice Department chuckstevens Jul 2013 #16
Sanford has a new African American police chief, not that it's doing any good Hugabear Jul 2013 #18
I wonder what it will take to get these swine investigated by the FBI, 'Mississippi Burning' style? Flatulo Jul 2013 #13
OMG. Willam Dafoe and Gene Hackman, YESSSS! (Half-kidding!) WinkyDink Jul 2013 #14
Boycott Florida! chuckstevens Jul 2013 #15
Fuck Sanford Aldo Leopold Jul 2013 #17
I think it's high time Sanford gets a shadow group to follow the Sanford PD ReRe Jul 2013 #19
Gambling in the street is a crime? JoeyT Jul 2013 #21
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