Revealed: Virginia cops Tased handcuffed man 20 times in 30 minutes before he died
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Revealed: Virginia cops Tased handcuffed man 20 times in 30 minutes before he died
olice in South Boston, Virginia broke their own rules and Tased a man multiple times, then reneged on a planned trip to the hospital, before he died in their custody, MSNBC reported. Newly-released footage shows three officers using the devices against 46-year-old Linwood Lambert while he was handcuffed both in front of a local hospital and in a patrol car. The Tasers were used 20 times over the course of a 30-minute period. However, the department’s rules state that Taser use “is no longer justified once the subject has been restrained,” as Linwood was during the May 4, 2013 encounter. The footage also reveals that the officers broke the department’s rules regarding providing medical assistance to suspects after the use of a Taser. The regulations state that officers should take suspects to the emergency room at the Sentara Halifax Regional Hospital before taking them to jail.
The video shows an officer telling Lambert, “We’re not locking you up, we’re going to the ER” after handcuffing him — but not arresting him — during their initial encounter at a local motel. Lambert was reportedly hallucinating and “acting paranoid,” prompting noise complaints from other guests. The officers — identified as Cpl. Tiffany Bratton and Officers Travis Clay and Clifton Mann — took Lambert to the hospital. The footage shows Lambert running toward the facility as soon as he was let out of the squad car. After he runs into the hospital door, the officers use their Tasers. Lambert quickly falls to the ground. But despite Lambert being restrained and showing no sign of aggressive behavior, the officers continued to use their Tasers on him while he is on the ground. They also arrested him and charged him with disorderly conduct and destruction of property.
They also took him away from the hospital, instead taking him to jail. The officers noticed when they arrived that Lambert was unconscious, and called for medical assistance after attempting CPR. Lambert was pronounced dead at 6:23 a.m. at Sentara Halifax, where the officers had originally planned to take him. Police refused to turn over footage of Lambert’s encounter to his family until his sister, Gwendolyn Smalls, filed a $25 million wrongful death lawsuit against the department. No one has been arrested in connection with Lambert’s death.
Watch the footage, as released by MSNBC on Wednesday, below.
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/revealed-virginia-cops-tased-handcuffed-man-20-times-in-30-minutes-before-he-died/
The video shows an officer telling Lambert, “We’re not locking you up, we’re going to the ER” after handcuffing him — but not arresting him — during their initial encounter at a local motel. Lambert was reportedly hallucinating and “acting paranoid,” prompting noise complaints from other guests. The officers — identified as Cpl. Tiffany Bratton and Officers Travis Clay and Clifton Mann — took Lambert to the hospital. The footage shows Lambert running toward the facility as soon as he was let out of the squad car. After he runs into the hospital door, the officers use their Tasers. Lambert quickly falls to the ground. But despite Lambert being restrained and showing no sign of aggressive behavior, the officers continued to use their Tasers on him while he is on the ground. They also arrested him and charged him with disorderly conduct and destruction of property.
They also took him away from the hospital, instead taking him to jail. The officers noticed when they arrived that Lambert was unconscious, and called for medical assistance after attempting CPR. Lambert was pronounced dead at 6:23 a.m. at Sentara Halifax, where the officers had originally planned to take him. Police refused to turn over footage of Lambert’s encounter to his family until his sister, Gwendolyn Smalls, filed a $25 million wrongful death lawsuit against the department. No one has been arrested in connection with Lambert’s death.
Watch the footage, as released by MSNBC on Wednesday, below.
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/revealed-virginia-cops-tased-handcuffed-man-20-times-in-30-minutes-before-he-died/
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These personal cameras are really taking the lid off of policing tactics in the US, eh? So much for the Blue Wall of silence.
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I can understanding them stunning him once as he was trying to escape and only as a last resort. But that was riridulous. He was handcuffed as well and there was 3 of them.
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In this kind of scenario,this probably would not have happened in the UK because the guy would have been put into a secure police van.That's a police van with a secure cage in the rear of the vehicle.
Instead he was put into the rear of a car where those side windows are begging to be kicked out.
Unfortunately for the suspect,he is in America where there still persists a wild west shoot first & ask questions later mentality.But that mentality should be trained out of professional police officers.
But at the end of the day,he was just a crack head whose life was a complete waste of time & who I guess has committed numerous criminal offences in his time,mainly to fund his drug habit.
Instead he was put into the rear of a car where those side windows are begging to be kicked out.
Unfortunately for the suspect,he is in America where there still persists a wild west shoot first & ask questions later mentality.But that mentality should be trained out of professional police officers.
But at the end of the day,he was just a crack head whose life was a complete waste of time & who I guess has committed numerous criminal offences in his time,mainly to fund his drug habit.
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yeah, the freedom in america is just great innit
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Shady wrote:In this kind of scenario,this probably would not have happened in the UK because the guy would have been put into a secure police van.That's a police van with a secure cage in the rear of the vehicle.
Instead he was put into the rear of a car where those side windows are begging to be kicked out.
Unfortunately for the suspect,he is in America where there still persists a wild west shoot first & ask questions later mentality.But that mentality should be trained out of professional police officers.
But at the end of the day,he was just a crack head whose life was a complete waste of time & who I guess has committed numerous criminal offences in his time,mainly to fund his drug habit.
He was originally picked up on his own request, with the intent to take him to a medical center. In fact, they did take him there. Somewhere in transit he became violent.
He obviously had an adverse reaction to cocaine. I've seen what meth-heads can do. If he was flipping out like they say, he would need a lot of control.
Twenty hits with a taser is lethal, though. Why didn't they just shoot him?
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