Cops Tase Barely Conscious Boy With Broken Back 19 Times For Non-Compliance

[Galileo Galilei]

Cops Tase Barely Conscious Boy With Broken Back 19 Times For Non-Compliance

Police: Taser use is “not one of the unanswered questions” surrounding the case

Steve Watson

Infowars.net

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

You couldn’t make it up if you tried. Police in Ozark, Missouri repeatedly tased a critically injured sixteen year old boy after he “refused to comply with the officers”.

The cops were called to investigate reports of a boy walking along a busy overpass, but when they got there they found young Mace Hutchinson had fallen 30 ft to the ground below, breaking his back and and foot in the process.

When he did not co-operate with the cops they pulled out their stun guns and fired them into his body, shocking him up to nineteen times with 50,000 volts.

According to the boy’s father, the actions of the police caused an elevated white blood cell count leading Mace to develop a fever that delayed vital surgery by two days.

Ozark Police Capt. Thomas Rousset tried to condone the use of the taser in comments to the media:

“He refused to comply with the officers and so the officers had to deploy their Tasers in order to subdue him. He is making incoherent statements; he’s also making statements such as, ‘Shoot cops, kill cops,’ things like that. So there was cause for concern to the officers.”

Watch a local report from KY3 News:

The idea that a boy with a broken back would need to be “subdued” by a team of cops is not patently ludicrous but also smacks of a desperate attempt to cover up the true events in this case.

This is a perfect example of how it has become the norm for cops to react with extreme physical force towards anyone who acts out of the ordinary in any way whatsoever.

We have previously carried reports of police tasing an already restrained disabled man, a 6-year-old boy who was wielding a piece of glass and a woman having diabetic seizure to name but a few, but this case trumps them all.

This behaviour is not limited to cops in the U.S. either, last November a man who slipped into a diabetic coma on the top deck of a bus in Leeds, England described how he was used for electric stun gun “target practice” after he “failed to respond to instructions” and police “mistook him for a suicide bomber”.

Tasers are supposed to be the last response before lethal action, yet police now use the taser as if it is a pair of handcuffs or pepper spray. The latest figures show that over 300 people died in one year in admitted cases in the US alone from being tased.

Prominent heart doctors have declared that there is no doubt that Tasers can cause heart problems and even induce sudden and lethal cardiac arrest.

The UN’s Committee Against Torture issued a statement on the TaserX26, in November of last year which read: “The use of TaserX26 weapons, provoking extreme pain, constituted a form of torture, and that in certain cases it could also cause death, as shown by several reliable studies and by certain cases that had happened after practical use.”

Despite these facts, we see stories every week of old women, children and disabled people being shot with tasers. The weapons are even being used in schools.

The police are now trained that “pain compliance,” a euphemism for torture, is acceptable in apprehending anyone even if that person poses no physical danger.

The heart of the issue is that this was another act of wanton police brutality and torture by means of tasing.

WATCH VIDEO:

http://www.prisonplanet.com/cops-ta...-broken-back-19-times-for-non-compliance.html

 

[Ozwest]

Thanks for that link.

Why does a 16 year old get tazed 19 times?

 

[ninepointfive]

There's also a recent story with a cop body checking a bicyclist for no good reason in NYC the other day. Video was captured too!

 

[ninepointfive]

Thanks for that link.

Why does a 16 year old get tazed 19 times?

while also having a broken back no less!

 

[ClayTrainor]

I dont understand how they could possibly justify tasing a boy with a broken back.

How could this boy have been a threat whatsoever, unless he had a firearm?

Cops are abusing their power like crazy, they respect authority not the constitution

 

[surf]

As a diabetic (for 30+ years) i have been in a traffic accident due to hypoglycemia (low blood sugar). The last time was about 15 years ago, prior to the wide-spread use of tasers.

this shit scares me.

 

[rpfan2008]

American SS at work.

 

[CopThatSupportsRonPaul]

Tazed 19 times? First of all, that's flat out impossible. Tasers are only good for 2 shocks at most. Were these officers carrying 9 tasers on their belt or something? ROFL. I work for a PD with a huge budget, and they can't even give us all tasers, so I doubt these two officers in the OZARK PD were carrying 9 tasers with them. If the article can't even get that right, I highly doubt the accuracy of the rest of the story.


Second, how were the officers supposed to know the "boy" had a broken back? If you are trying to take someone into custody, and they are writhing around resisting you, while at the same time saying they are going to kill you, what exactly are you supposed to do, give them milk and cookies?

The boy deserves a darwin award and should be fortunate he was only tazed and not shot.

 

[orafi]

Tazed 19 times? First of all, that's flat out impossible. Tasers are only good for 2 shocks at most. Were these officers carrying 9 tasers on their belt or something? ROFL. I work for a PD with a huge budget, and they can't even give us all tasers, so I doubt these two officers in the OZARK PD were carrying 9 tasers with them. If the article can't even get that right, I highly doubt the accuracy of the rest of the story.


Second, how were the officers supposed to know the "boy" had a broken back? If you are trying to take someone into custody, and they are writhing around resisting you, while at the same time saying they are going to kill you, what exactly are you supposed to do, give them milk and cookies?

The boy deserves a darwin award and should be fortunate he was only tazed and not shot.

Yeah, serves that kid right.

The kid did put up a good fight though. But that's what he gets for busting his spine. Should've tasered him extra for his broken foot.

 

[Join The Paul Side]

It seems almost daily in the news you see or read a story where these cops are getting out of line with tasers. It gets to the point where some police tase citizens rediculous amounts of times like in the story above. I will go as far as to accuse these cops of commiting torture against their victims. They should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

 

[CopThatSupportsRonPaul]

read a story

That's exactly what it is, a story. The media will distort the facts around to make up a good story that sells.

Excruciating tales of police brutality is what is "in" right now and what sells like hotcakes.

 

[Join The Paul Side]

That's exactly what it is, a story. The media will distort the facts around to make up a good story that sells.

Excruciating tales of police brutality is what is "in" right now and what sells like hotcakes.

Well I'm not shocked to see a cop sticking up for a cop. Kindly stop pretending that your kind does not abuse their authority or violate citizens Constitutional rights. It happens habitually and most often than not cops end up getting away with these tragedies. What we see on the news or read in papers is just a fraction of abuses which occur regularly that happen to get caught and reported.

I'm sure you would applaud if waterboarding became a routine tactic for police in questioning witnesses.

 

[revolutionary8]

That's exactly what it is, a story. The media will distort the facts around to make up a good story that sells.

Excruciating tales of police brutality is what is "in" right now and what sells like hotcakes.

As I just posted in the biker thread, the cops will also distort the facts and make up a good story that sells enslavement and call it a "criminal complaint".

Good thing there is video of the incident isn't there?

 

[CopThatSupportsRonPaul]

Kindly stop pretending that your kind does not abuse their authority

No doubt it happens, just like any person on any job can abuse their authority. That doesn't mean they all do.

or violate citizens Constitutional rights.

What constitutional right of this young man's was violated?

It happens habitually and most often than not cops end up getting away with these tragedies.

You are so wrong and misinformed it's not even funny. Maybe in the old days that would be true, but today if an officer even makes one simple, accidental mistake, he loses his job 9 times out of 10. I'm not sure why that is, I'm guessing it's because the department and the pencil pushers in that department are too afraid of the media and that they will run a story making the department look bad, so they just fire the officer instead to prevent anything like that from happening.

In law enforcement, there's no three strikes you're out. You mess up once, you can kiss your career goodbye.

What we see on the news or read in papers is just a fraction of abuses which occur regularly that happen to get caught and reported.

Do you have proof of this?

I'm sure you would applaud if waterboarding became a routine tactic for police in questioning witnesses.

No I wouldn't. There are far more effective interrogation techniques we are trained to use, and they don't involve torture. I've never understood why our military uses torture and stuff at gitmo when there are better techniques that don't involve torture.

 

[SeanEdwards]

I've never understood why our military uses torture and stuff at gitmo when there are better techniques that don't involve torture.

They saw it working for Jack Bauer.

 

[Kalifornia]

They saw it working for Jack Bauer.

I think this is probably closer to the truth than anyone cares to admit.

 

[Join The Paul Side]

No doubt it happens, just like any person on any job can abuse their authority. That doesn't mean they all do.

Sure people working normal jobs abuse their authority as well. The difference is when cops abuse their authority somebody either get physically hurt, wrongly arrested, or both......sometimes even killed. And it's sad that you come here justifying it.

What constitutional right of this young man's was violated?

How about his 1st amendment? The cops didn't like what he had to say to them, so they tased him. Next I suppose you are going to tell me how the kid deserved it, huh?

You are so wrong and misinformed it's not even funny. Maybe in the old days that would be true, but today if an officer even makes one simple, accidental mistake, he loses his job 9 times out of 10.

Tell that to Sean Bell's family and fiance and see what they have to say to you.

Do you have proof of this?

Can you disprove it? After all, you're the one that's here trying to disprove a story of a cop's abuse of authority and torture against an unarmed kid that had no means of defending himself. I think the burden of proof should be on you.

No I wouldn't. There are far more effective interrogation techniques we are trained to use, and they don't involve torture.

Yeah, it's called tasing. And when it's done excessively to a cop's victim, it is torture.

 

[Nirvikalpa]

Tazed 19 times? First of all, that's flat out impossible. Tasers are only good for 2 shocks at most. Were these officers carrying 9 tasers on their belt or something? ROFL. I work for a PD with a huge budget, and they can't even give us all tasers, so I doubt these two officers in the OZARK PD were carrying 9 tasers with them. If the article can't even get that right, I highly doubt the accuracy of the rest of the story.


Second, how were the officers supposed to know the "boy" had a broken back? If you are trying to take someone into custody, and they are writhing around resisting you, while at the same time saying they are going to kill you, what exactly are you supposed to do, give them milk and cookies?

The boy deserves a darwin award and should be fortunate he was only tazed and not shot.

Do you understand how severe an injury a back injury is? You're not supposed to move a person that is complaining of back/neck injury, unless it's a dire situation (ie, a burning car). It's very easy once a vertebrae is broken to injure the spinal chord.

 

[CopThatSupportsRonPaul]

How about his 1st amendment? The cops didn't like what he had to say to them, so they tased him. Next I suppose you are going to tell me how the kid deserved it, huh?

First amendment suddenly gives you the right to tell people you are going to kill them, and not expect anything to happen to you??

Yeah, it's called tasing. And when it's done excessively to a cop's victim, it is torture.

Was this young man in the interrogation room? No, he was being apprehended and taken into custody. The taser was NOT being used for interrogation.

 

[CopThatSupportsRonPaul]

Do you understand how severe an injury a back injury is? You're not supposed to move a person that is complaining of back/neck injury, unless it's a dire situation (ie, a burning car). It's very easy once a vertebrae is broken to injure the spinal chord.

Ok good one, next time a fugitive is being apprehended by police, he can just say he has a back injury. Then the police can't do anything to him at all right.

Keep dreaming.