Sorry…WKRG

WLRG is running a poll over on another forum

http://www.wkrg.com/surveyusa/article/deaf-man-tased-did-mobile-police-go-to-far/222768/Jul-30-2009_3-52-pm/

I think that the parents should be glad it was just a run in with the LE and not someone with bad intentions. Someone seeing his handicap would not give a you know what. They see that as an opportunity for an easy target. He could have been robbed and killed.

I think that about does it. However, I did not know they had swords disguised as an umbrella. It is even stated in the interview that there was no permanent damage. He was just startled and scared, which is understandable. However, not the fault of LE.

I meant “4.Store employees NOR the MPD do not know that his is deaf, or handicapped.”

I’m late checking in due to some surgery, but let me make sure I have the facts:
1.A parent let her known mentally handicapped son go out on his own.
2.He enters a chain store whose affiliates have had numerous, recent robberies.
3.He locks himself in a bathroom for much more than a “normal” length of time.
4.Store employees not the MPD do not know that his is deaf, or handicapped.
5.He is unresponsive to commands.
6.When the door is finally opened by force, he fends off the police with an umbrella.
7.BTW, http://www.888knivesrus.com/ has a really neat sword disguised as an umbrella
8.The police use a non lethal method to subdue the subject, and he is back home with the parent who sent him out in the first place
Am I correct on these things?

You’re never going to get anything but stink from this. If the store was on fire and they did this to save him it would have been wrong. If they didn’t do it and he burned up they would be wrong. It is simple. He is black, deaf and mentally challenged. Under any circumstances this would be wrong in the eyes of the sheep today. Just look at the beer fest at the white house today.

He better be happy he was hit with the taser and not directly sprayed with pepper spray….the taser has no lasting effect..once done..its over…..if her were directly pepper sprayed..he would be hurting the remainder of the day…sounds like the cops went easy on him. Should have pepper sprayed his stupid mother….

What if this vile stomach problem hits him while crossing a street he falls to his knees in pain, whammo car strikes him, knocking the shirt out of him, is the driver guilty of hit and runs, should the police be called or EPA, this makes about as much sense as the rest of the comments here.

smason-good to see you too. I noticed you asked some “what ifs”....IF this was a medical problem, WHY did DG not call EMT? Did DG check on the guy and try to find out what was going on, BEFORE calling the police? If they called 911-it was the reports from DG that instigated the operator to send LE, as opposed to EMT. So WHAT was he doing? Do you know for a fact this WASN’T a smart decision on LE part? Were you there with first-hand knowledge of what all was going on? MOST mentally challenged people are very loving and trusting people. You might want to read the article from Channel 15 news, regarding their interview with the people from MARC and their response to police and how LE is working with this community. You may also want to consider that ride-along option to see the “real” world of LE and what they deal with daily…

Ultimately, the responsibility is that of the family for allowing someone with mental challenges and deafness to even cross such a dangerous,busy highway. Then to send someone out with that kind of health issue, to possibly infect everyone else, or to embarrass himself by NOT making it to the bathroom is just disgusting. No consideration for him, or anyone else,by his family-imo.