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It's not the cops fault the guy volunteered with such entusiasm.
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I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
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Are you annoying?Originally posted by Spec
Glad i dont live in the states!
I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator RubioComment
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Originally posted by Spec
Glad i dont live in the states!
Spec.
No more than us.Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
"Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ BraindeadComment
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So does anyone have some text on this incident? Tell me where it happened and I'll search myself..."I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark TwainComment
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MOBIUSOriginally posted by Japher
he was being unfunny... perfect punishment for the crime
THEY!!111 OMG WTF LOL LET DA NOMADS AND TEH S3D3NTARY PEOPLA BOTH MAEK BITER AXP3REINCES
AND TEH GRAAT SINS OF THERE [DOCTRINAL] INOVATIONS BQU3ATH3D SMAL
AND!!1!11!!! LOL JUST IN CAES A DISPUTANT CALS U 2 DISPUT3 ABOUT THEYRE CLAMES
DO NOT THAN DISPUT3 ON THEM 3XCAPT BY WAY OF AN 3XTARNAL DISPUTA!!!!11!! WTFComment
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Liar. You love me.Originally posted by SlowwHand
No more than us.
Spec.-Never argue with an idiot; He will bring you down to his level and beat you with experience.Comment
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Click on the link below the video.Originally posted by Wezil
So does anyone have some text on this incident? Tell me where it happened and I'll search myself..."The French caused the war [Persian Gulf war, 1991]" - Ned
"you people who bash Bush have no appreciation for one of the great presidents in our history." - Ned
"I wish I had gay sex in the boy scouts" - DissidentComment
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Vernal, Utah.I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator RubioComment
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Can you zoom in on the liscense plate?Originally posted by Wezil
So does anyone have some text on this incident? Tell me where it happened and I'll search myself...
Spec.-Never argue with an idiot; He will bring you down to his level and beat you with experience.Comment
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Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
"Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ BraindeadComment
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Trooper's Taser use pops up on YouTube
ROOSEVELT — A Utah Highway Patrol trooper's conduct during a Sept. 14 traffic stop in Uintah County is being called into question after a video of the stop was posted on the Internet.
The video, filmed from the dashboard camera of UHP trooper John Gardner's car, shows the trooper pulling over 28-year-old Jared Massey on U.S. 40 west of Vernal for allegedly speeding in a construction zone.
It was posted on the YouTube Web site on Monday.
UHP officials were unsure Tuesday how the tape became public. Massey could have filed an open records request for the tape or his attorney could have asked for it as part of filing a lawsuit, said UHP spokesman Cameron Roden.
The nearly 10-minute video clip, which has drawn nothing but negative comments toward the trooper on YouTube, shows Gardner approaching Massey's SUV and asking for his driver's license and registration. Massey asks how fast he was going, which prompts Gardner to repeat his request.
"I need your driver's license and registration — right now," the trooper says.
Massey continues to question Gardner about the posted speed limit and how fast he was going but hands over his papers. The trooper walks back to his car.
Gardner returns to the SUV and tells Massey he's being cited for speeding. On the video, Massey can be heard refusing to sign the ticket and demanding that the trooper take him back and show him the 40 mph speed limit sign.
"What you're going to do — if you're giving me a ticket — in the first place, you're going to tell me why ... " Massey says.
"For speeding," the trooper interjects.
" ... and second of all we're going to go look for that 40 mph sign," Massey says.
"Well you're going to sign this first," Gardner says.
"No I am not. I'm not signing anything." Massey says.
Gardner tells Massey to "hop out of the car," then walks back to the hood of his patrol car, setting down his ticket book. Massey is close behind the trooper pointing toward the 40 mph speed limit sign he'd passed just before being pulled over.
"Turn around. Put your hands behind your back," Gardner says. He repeats the command a second time as he draws his Taser and takes a step back.
The trooper points the Taser at Massey who stares incredulously at him.
"What the hell is wrong with you?" Massey asks.
Gardner repeats the command to "turn around" two more times as Massey, with part of his right hand in his pants pocket, starts to walk back toward his SUV.
"What the heck's wrong with you?" Massey can be heard asking as Gardner fires his Taser into Massey's back. Immobilized by the weapon's 50,000 volts, Massey falls backward, striking his head on the highway. The impact caused a cut on Massey's scalp.
Massey's wife Lauren, who was seven months pregnant at the time, gets out of the SUV screaming and is ordered to get back in the vehicle or risk being arrested. Gardner handcuffs Massey and leaves him on the side of the highway while he goes to talk to Massey's wife.
"He's fine. I Tasered him because he did not follow my instructions," Gardner explains to the audibly upset woman.
"You had no right to do that!" she responds. "You had no right to do that!"
While Gardner is still talking to Lauren Massey, her husband gets to his feet and approaches the trooper from behind. Gardner takes the handcuffed man back toward his patrol car and again orders Lauren Massey to stay in her vehicle or risk being arrested.
"Officer you're a little bit excited. You need to calm yourself down," Jared Massey tells Gardner before being put into the trooper's patrol car where he continues to demand an explanation for his arrest.
When a backup officer arrives on the scene and asks Gardner what happened he tells them Massey "took a ride with the Taser."
"Oh, how was it?" the unidentified officer asks.
"Painful, isn't it?" Gardner responds.
A UHP spokesman said late Tuesday afternoon that the agency was not yet ready to issue a statement on the video.
Roden said an investigation into the trooper's conduct was being expedited. Officials hope to have it completed by early next week, he said.
Gardner had not been suspended Tuesday and was working his usual shifts.
UHP policy says one of three situations can warrant Taser deployment, according to Roden. First, a person could be threatening himself, others or an officer; second, the use of more force would endanger people; or third, other means of control have proved insufficient.
The Masseys declined a request Tuesday for an interview until they could speak with their attorney. Jared Massey is still fighting the speeding charge in Uintah County Justice Court. A trial is set for Jan. 12.
By late Tuesday, no civil complaints against Gardner or highway patrol had been filedI make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator RubioComment
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Thanks, I found it. It happened yesterday.
Man Tased for Refusing to Sign Speeding Ticket
November 20th, 2007 @ 10:00pm
Randall Jeppsen and Whit Johnson reporting
A video of a Utah Highway Patrolman is getting big play all over the Internet. So, is the trooper in the right or the wrong?
The man has filed a complaint and is threatening to sue the Utah Highway Patrol for being wrongfully tasered. He got his hands on the trooper's dash-cam video and posted it all over the Internet.
This whole thing started with a speeding ticket that escalated into much more very quickly. The Utah Department of Public Safety is now trying to figure out whether or not the trooper's actions were justified.
Posted on popular Web sites like YouTube, a trooper with the UHP shows the world what can happen if you resist arrest. The incident happened near Vernal in mid-September. Jared Massey, the driver of an SUV was pulled over for speeding. His wife was in the passenger seat; his toddler was in the back.
In the video Massey clearly becomes frustrated about the citation, demanding to know how fast he was going.
The trooper said, "Well, you're going to sign this first."
Massey replies, "No, I'm not. I'm not signing anything officer."
And the trooper says, "OK, hop out of the car." He then attempts to place Massey under arrest. "Turn around, put your hands behind your back."
You can see in the video that Massey ignores the command and proceeds to walk toward the car. He's then tasered.
Massey spoke to KSL Newsradio. He says, "I'm laying there on the ground, and I start coming to and I hear him yelling at me another command, and before I can process it, he's telling me to roll over, he hits me with the Taser again.
"I gashed my head open and had cuts and bruises on my back, and they had to take me to the hospital."
He's threatening legal action.
Meanwhile, the Utah Department of Public Safety is trying to answer some questions of its own. Sgt. Jeff Nigbur said, "I do not know what that particular trooper was thinking about, what he was concerned about, whether he felt his life was in danger, whether he was worried about the driver's life so close to traffic. I don't know."
If you refuse to sign a citation, troopers can give you another citation or, in some cases, they can place you under arrest. That's what happened in this instance.
The investigation should be complete sometime next week.
"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark TwainComment
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I'm sure the investigation will lead to the officer being suspended for not pistol whipping the guy after he tasered him."The French caused the war [Persian Gulf war, 1991]" - Ned
"you people who bash Bush have no appreciation for one of the great presidents in our history." - Ned
"I wish I had gay sex in the boy scouts" - DissidentComment
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I bet he signs the ticket next time.I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator RubioComment
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