Dear Tamika, no being deaf is not a crime, duh I know this as I am partially deaf myself but allowing a person who has a mental capacity of a seven yr old out by themselves should be… Most of my fully deaf friends usually frequent the sames stores where the employee’s know them, but not only that there are ways to sign to let a person know your stomach is upset. We even have a deaf guy who comes into our store in the morning and brushes his teeth before his ride comes and picks him up.. We all know what he is doing and don’t call the cops.. The family says that this guy goes to this DG all the time so it makes you wonder why the employee called the cops and not 911.

to lutawolf being deaf doesn’t mean u can’t go out by yourself just mean u can’t hear his stomach could have been upset so by him being deaf not a crime and someone was knocking that means he couldn’t hear them also not a crime now if there is a crime please point it out to me and i will apologize forthis comment

Go ahead and take away the tasers and guns. Do away with cops all together. Let the criminals run amok. Eventually they will kill each other and everyone else and the problems of society will solved.

Honestly what was the guy doing in the bathroom for over an hour?? yeah he is disabled but how did the cops know that besides all that, just because someone is disable does not mean that they are not Perverted, how in the world were the DG employees or the cops to know better.. Instead of blaming other ppl the family needs to take a good look at themselves and recognize that they are the main ones responsible for letting a mentally disabled man who can’t take care of himself out on his own, he had no business being in that store without someone to supervise him.. if you let a child run loose in the store is the child suddenly the DG and Cops responsibility? Should he have been arrested, no but that’s been owned up to now if only the family could be as honest and own up to there part in the mess.

So logically they go to the next thing. The tazer. As for the whole parents letting 7 year old’s run the street. Well just because it is being done does not mean that it is safe or the logical thing to do. This is not the first case of a impaired or disabled adult that was out on his or her own and had run in’s with the law. It is not safe for the individual or others. I do not know about you, but I was not able to even go out in a group of friends until I was 13 and even then was only allowed to go to the skating rink were there was constant adult supervision. At 7 or even 10 years old I was not allowed to be out on my own. Like I have stated before. I am not saying that his parents should be with him 24/7, but there are other forms of supervision that does not seem as overbearing to the individual. Say a close family friend. Just someone that can be in the same area as him so that if something was to occur, there would be no miss communication.

I can understand how tazers can be fatal, but that does not mean every time one is used that is as violent as some make it out to be. I am sure it hurt the man like h** when it happened, but he was released within hours of the incident. Did not have to get checked in to a hospital. Was in the same health, as he left his house in, when the interview was taken. Anything can become a lethal weapon if you intend to use it that way. If they wanted to kill him they could have used the baton. If you have such health conditions that might not go well with a tazer the best thing to do is to try not to be put into a situation were it might be used. Just because you have an encounter with LE does not mean you are going to get tazed. Co-operate and you should be fine. As for this case. They used verbal commands first, subject could not understand. So they use bodily force by trying to open the door. He keeps trying to stop them. So they use pepper spray. Does not work.

i am against them because I have seizures. I am scared I will be tased for no reason. that is not how i want to die. Yes they do tase you for nothing. if you don’t believe me read the article above. if you get shot in the leg or something like that you won’t die. you can still die from a taser!!! i don’t think they should be outlawed I just think they should be a last resort.

I don’t know why eveyone thinks his family doesn’t care about him.

ronald t why wouldn’t someone let their child with a 10 year old brain run the streets when people let their 7 year old run the streets?

Yeah. Take away the tazers so that the only options that they have are pepper spray, baton or their gun. That sounds like a reasonable solution. Because people are always known to better survive a gunshot wound than getting tazed.

his family did not care where he was untill now, they can smell that dollar.they are the ones at fault,they let this kid with a ten year old brain run the streets,then when something happens to him they holler lawyer,shame on them.

I don’t think cops should be able to use tasers. They can kill you just like guns. I would rather be shot than tased.