Police Officer Uses Taser on Waiter as a "Prank" - Other Officers Just Laugh

[Facial_King]

The one officer has, thankfully, been arrested, and a lawsuit is pending. I'm thinking the other 2 are getting off a bit too easy here...

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/gwinnett/stories/2009/07/02/taser_waffle_house.html

Talk about royal pricks! Also, can anyone explain why so many cops feel compelled to go with the military style buzzcuts (haircuts)? The police are NOT a branch of the military. (Just to show that stereotypes are often wrong though, only ONE of the officers at issue has a moustache, though!).

Excerpt:

Wilson said all three officers were regular customers at the Waffle House at 2725 Grayson Highway in Loganville.

He said the restaurant provided police with free food.

Wilson said the officers often pointed the red laser from their Taser at him playfully. They would do so when Wilson picked a song they didn’t like on the jukebox or when telling him not to mess up their order, Wilson said.

“It was uncomfortable, but they are my customers and they tip pretty well,” Wilson said. “I just thought they were being foolish.”

Then on Feb. 16, Wilson was chatting with Parry and Parkerson when Miles sidled up behind him. Without saying a word, Miles zapped him with the Taser, Wilson said.

“I remember feeling the pulse go through my body,” Wilson said. “It hurt.”

Taser stun guns deliver a 50,000-volt electrical current capable of incapacitating a person. The weapon can fire barbed probes a distance of up to 35 feet, or it can be used in “drive stun mode” when pressed directly against a suspect. Gwinnett police checked the data recording from Miles’ Taser and found it was fired for one second at 2:48 a.m. on Feb. 16.

Miles told investigators that he only “spark tested” the Taser near the employee’s back “just to scare him a little bit,” according to the internal investigation file.

Parry, 41, and Parkerson, 39, witnessed the employee being shocked but did not report it. They laughed along with Miles, Wilson said. The sergeants later told investigators they didn’t realize the Taser made contact with Wilson’s body.

Wilson said he remembers telling Miles in the presence of the other officers, “Hey, you actually tased me.”

Wilson again sought an apology from Miles a few days later for accidentally stunning him. He said Miles replied, “Who says I did it by accident?”

Miles was arrested June 18 on charges of misdemeanor battery and violating his oath as an officer. Parry and Parkerson resigned in lieu of termination June 19. Police are also investigating allegations that a fourth officer pointed a Taser at Wilson’s groin during an earlier incident.

 

[Lungzyn]

Thats not cool man

 

[mrtrebus]

fuckin' police!

 

[24788]

Ugh, what do you do in that situation? You can't hit a cop because it's a felony, but you can't just stand there while that happened.

 

[Facial_King]

Ugh, what do you do in that situation? You can't hit a cop because it's a felony, but you can't just stand there while that happened.

Good question, yeah.

I'd love to know what ChefChiTown would do.

 

[marquis2]

Stupid anyway because the police need public support if they are to do their job successfully.This sort of thing does the police no favours at all.
Agree with FacialHair-the police are not military.It annoys me that they refer to members of the public as "civilians" - what do they think they are ?
In the UK the founder of the police force went to great lengths to reassure the public as to the citzen status of the police-non military uniform, non military titles (except sergeant) and they weren't armed.

 

[Jeep!]

"Misdemeanor" battery? Aren't tasers potentially lethal?

 

[georges]

You could just take a chef kitchen knife and cut the arms of the culprit. Or other solution, would be to use an aluminium baseball bat and beat the rotten cop till blood.

 

[mongo18]

The scary part is that this idiot was also given a gun.

 

[Hot Mega]

3 words, "big ass lawsuit".

That's the problem with these fuck-off cops is they always end up costing the innocent taxpayer.

 

[STDiva]

I would have "accidentally" spilled a burning pot of coffee on his cock. And when he asked for an apology for the accident, I would reply, "Who said it was an accident?"

 

[thebear247]

abuse of power we ar suppose to be bale to count on them to serve and protect us not taser us for fun .

 

[BlueBalls]

Digusting behaviour!

But this is what happens when you let retards on the force.

 

[Knytemare]

Ugh that is just sickening.

 

[davey O)))]

giving these power hungry fuck faces tazers is the dumbest thing the country has ever done. they are so quick to use it these days. what happened to the days of a take down of an unarmed suspect now its taze him taze her taze that old lady too she saw him get tazed. susspension with pay... cha chingggg

 

[Skyraider22]

hey should be kicked in the ass so hard that there teeth shake and then get fired And they wonder why people don't respect the police

 

[slasher]

No wonder people don't trust the police.

 

[Ace Bandage]

All right, normally I defend the boys in blue because five members of my family are police officers, but this is just idiotic beavior. Tasers are not meant to be toys to torture innocent people with. My brother had to get tased and pepper sprayed when he went through the academy. He said he would rather get kicked in the testicles as hard as possible than be tased again.

True Story: Now, that being said. A group of family friends were at a golf outing last year and were daring one of the guys to get tased for money. Eventually, everyone ponied up ten dollars a man if he would do it - $150 total. There was only one catch though: he had to have it done on his testicles. After a little convincing, (frothy adult beverages) he decided to go through with it. I must say, I've never seen something so disturbing, yet so hilarious at the same time. Let's just say he lost control of one of his bodily functions in the process. And when it happens, you don't just scream, it's really high pitched. And if you're standing when it happens, you're going down hard and fast. Personally, I'd never do it, but it was damn funny to watch that one time.

 

[ajitpd]

Wilson said all three officers were regular customers at the Waffle House at 2725 Grayson Highway in Loganville.

He said the restaurant provided police with free food.

How can someone who eats for free be a customer? So police in West is no different from those of third world countries where they always complain about police involved in many illegal activates which they were hired to prevent; extortion being most prominent.

For me police officers should pay like anybody else. If they don't pay or accept free food when they know that the free-offer is because they are police officers they should not accept and better yet quit visiting that particular restaurant.

Laws should be made against the businesses which offer free merchandise to the people with authority (i.e. police and like). E.g.: http://www.employmentlawtoday.com/ArticleView.aspx?l=1&articleId=1583

The charges were dropped and Walsh filed a suit against the franchise owner for wrongful dismissal and the police, who she claimed filed the charges because they received free food and drinks from the store for years.

Off-duty police officers in civilian clothes should be bound to hide their police identity when their sole purpose of visiting a business establishment is private transaction.

 

[Ceska]

Ugh, what do you do in that situation? You can't hit a cop because it's a felony, but you can't just stand there while that happened.

Add 1/4 cup poop to the waffle mix? :dunno:


(accidentally of course)