Doctor Assaulted by Police at Dying Son’s Birthday, Tasered so Many Times He Had a Heart Attack

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33. how would they know that?

You can't know just by looking at someone that they're having a heart attack. Most people don't even know it themselves. My mom had a heart attack and had no idea. She thought she had a pinched nerve. And she was a nurse. Years earlier my dad thought he was having a heart attack and was about to die and insanely drove himself to the ER. Turned out he had severe indigestion.

We don't even know at what time this heart attack occurred or if tasering was responsible. He suffered from panic attacks - I get them, too - that can cause the heart to pound like crazy and even miss beats. Might that have contributed to it? Without actual medical evidence we don't know what caused his heart attack. For all we know he was a heart attack waiting to happen anyway. People get tasered multiple times without having a heart attack. One of the reasons I don't particularly like the use of tasers at all is because police can't know if someone has underlying health issues where being tasered may be high risk for them. And some people can be tasered repeatedly and it does nothing. The odds are still a whole lot better though than a billy club.

None of this would have happened at all had he not resisted arrest. Police don't go around arresting people by throwing them on the ground, jumping on them and tasering them repeatedly for no reason. They just want to get the job done as easily as possible and be on their way. When they say you're under arrest you put your hands behind your back, shut your mouth, allow yourself to be cuffed and walked to and get in the police car. Doesn't matter if it turns out to be something you shouldn't have been arrested for. That's for court. The police aren't going to care about your complaints that you shouldn't be arrested because XYZ. They get the warrant and go do the arrest. Its for courts to decide whether or not there was good reason to arrest you, and the police have no power to play judge at the scene nor do they want to be bothered with that. Yet people do it all the time as if they're actually going to say, "Oh, sorry, this arrest warrant must be wrong then now that you say you didn't do anything." They're there to make the arrest, not to hear all about how you shouldn't be arrested.

They went to arrest the guy because of a complaint from his ex who he was legally supposed to staying away from. I'd far rather police take domestic issues more seriously when those kinds of complaints are made. Sorry, but I'm of the belief that if someone has a restraining order against you there's a damn good reason for it.

I'm certainly not going to be so stupid as to hear about bits from a lawsuit and automatically believe it. I spent way too many years having to read them cover to cover including exhibits and already knowing the complaints are largely full of crap and having to write responses. Had to write too many of them, too, with attorneys adding in all kinds of nonsense just to make it look better or in case they came up with something off the top of their heads that couldn't be proven one way or another but sounded good.

And I'm definitely not going to pay any attention to a blog with an agenda as a "news" source and when they can't even get the name of they guy they're writing about right.