Jacksonville: Second Man In 48 Hours Dies After Police Use Taser Gun

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- For the second time in less than three days, a suspect shocked with a Taser gun by a Jacksonville sheriff's officer has died.

Police said the incident followed a wreck involving the suspect's vehicle in the 200 block of East 5th Street in Springfield about 3 p.m. Tuesday. The driver then got into an altercation with another man.

When a police officer and community service officer arrived and tried tried to break up the fight, the officer used a Taser gun on the man.

http://www.news4jax.com/news/14652477/detail.html

bad dope? :shrug: Both incidents are traffic related wherein the police needed to intervene...My thoughts, do they have some bad street dope in their system and the taser shock ignites some unknow reaction?

My suspicious arises form this information from the link by the OP:

He kept fighting 'em," said R. J. Montigny, who witnessed the fight. "The guy Tased him a couple times -- it didn't even faze him. They finally got one handcuff on him and kept trying to roll and kept fighting with them."

Police said the man continued fighting even when rescue personnel were trying to check his vital signs, which is standard practice after suspects are shocked by Taser guns. He was transported to Shands-Jacksonville Medical Center and died a short time later.

How do they know they're not tasing someone with a heart condition? Something is really wrong here.

would you continue to resist after being warned that you are about to be tased? Of course, the cops will not know the suspects medical history.

We're hearing at least one new taser death story a day lately. I seem to remember a time before tasers when cops were capable of subduing arrest resisters without potentially killing them.

Diabetic delirium. Panic. Who knows? You are asking that somebody be rational in the situation and decided not to resist.

They do not deserve to die simply for resisting arrest.

Springfield back in the 1970s and early 1980s was a neighborhood comprised of many blacks, incoming Vietnamese and Cuban Entrants (marielitos) ... there were many mental health boarding homes when it was fashionable to house mental health patients in boarding homes vs. mental hospitals ... and in general, it was considered a more or less "dangerous" neighborhood... then, later on, people with money began to buy old homes there and renovate them and so the neighborhood's composition changed a lot ... i wonder how it is viewed today ... but since the report does not give name nor race of the man tasered by police ... i am willing to bet the man may have been black, asian, hispanic of some south of the border nationality, or one of those cuban entrants (marielitos) who for some reason did not make it back to the miami area.

of course, in this growing police state, where jackbooted police are the police d'jour ... anything goes!