Police taser 16 yr old boy over 12 times for having a seizure

dirtyp · #1 (**permalink**) 05-19-2008, 06:39 PM

Blake Dwyer remembers pain:

The agonizing burn of electrical shock.

And shouting.

And fear.

“I thought a swarm of wasps was after me,” the 17-year-old Guyer High School athlete said. “I was trying to fight them off.”

He doesn’t remember the epileptic seizure he suffered July 18, 2007, when he was 16.

He doesn’t remember fighting to keep from being tied to a stretcher or hitting a paramedic.

His brother, Travis Baker, 17, remembers all of it. He recalls screaming at Corinth police to stop shocking Blake with a Taser. His mother, Deana, remembers hearing Travis crying on the telephone.

“He was saying, ‘Blake is having a seizure, and they’re hurting him,’” she said.

And in case they should forget Blake’s experience, they have photographs of 12 separate sets of burns from the double posts of a Taser.

Corinth police did not respond to a message asking for comment about the incident. Corinth city attorney Michael Bucek won’t release records because the city expects litigation, he said. He did say there was no internal affairs investigation into the incident.

“The only thing I can say is that we believe this is a frivolous lawsuit with no merit,” Bucek said.

No lawsuit has been filed yet. Deana Dwyer sought the advice of Denton lawyer Rocky Haire, who said he has been trying to work with Corinth police for an out-of-court resolution with no luck so far.

“Deana just wants them to acknowledge they did it wrong,” Haire said. “She tried to tell them their officers needed some training on what to do with epileptic seizures and postictal psychosis, but they just blew her off.”

Haire contacted an investigator with the Texas Municipal Intergovernmental Risk Pool, which insures city governments against lawsuits. Haire said the investigator told him that a check of the Taser shows it was fired 15 times within five or six minutes that day.
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cottonbroker · #2 (**permalink**) 05-19-2008, 06:47 PM

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Originally Posted by dirtyp

Blake Dwyer remembers pain:

The agonizing burn of electrical shock.

And shouting.

And fear.

“I thought a swarm of wasps was after me,” the 17-year-old Guyer High School athlete said. “I was trying to fight them off.”

He doesn’t remember the epileptic seizure he suffered July 18, 2007, when he was 16.

He doesn’t remember fighting to keep from being tied to a stretcher or hitting a paramedic.

His brother, Travis Baker, 17, remembers all of it. He recalls screaming at Corinth police to stop shocking Blake with a Taser. His mother, Deana, remembers hearing Travis crying on the telephone.

“He was saying, ‘Blake is having a seizure, and they’re hurting him,’” she said.

And in case they should forget Blake’s experience, they have photographs of 12 separate sets of burns from the double posts of a Taser.

Corinth police did not respond to a message asking for comment about the incident. Corinth city attorney Michael Bucek won’t release records because the city expects litigation, he said. He did say there was no internal affairs investigation into the incident.

“The only thing I can say is that we believe this is a frivolous lawsuit with no merit,” Bucek said.

No lawsuit has been filed yet. Deana Dwyer sought the advice of Denton lawyer Rocky Haire, who said he has been trying to work with Corinth police for an out-of-court resolution with no luck so far.

“Deana just wants them to acknowledge they did it wrong,” Haire said. “She tried to tell them their officers needed some training on what to do with epileptic seizures and postictal psychosis, but they just blew her off.”

Haire contacted an investigator with the Texas Municipal Intergovernmental Risk Pool, which insures city governments against lawsuits. Haire said the investigator told him that a check of the Taser shows it was fired 15 times within five or six minutes that day.
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So what are you saying? Are you saying the little fucker deserves special treatment?

sotmfs · #3 (**permalink**) 05-19-2008, 07:07 PM

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Originally Posted by cottonbroker

So what are you saying? Are you saying the little fucker deserves special treatment?

Not at all.Just the treatment anyone that is tasered without warrant should get.

Skinny Fatts · #4 (**permalink**) 05-19-2008, 08:35 PM

He was a young republican...and we got the little f*cker!! Oh ho, this is getting good.

Tileman · #5 (**permalink**) 05-19-2008, 08:50 PM

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“Deana just wants them to acknowledge they did it wrong,” Haire said. “She tried to tell them their officers needed some training on what to do with epileptic seizures and postictal psychosis, but they just blew her off.”

This quote opens the door to a whole new world of litigation which actuall begins with this parents own ignorance and the hopes of hitting the LOTTERY with a lawsuit...

--- Police need more training= You voted down the last bond issue to help out Police and fire fighters! Blame yourself, not us for not having training!
or
--- Police and fire fighters will always be of negligence until they all have both medical degrees with malpractice insurance and psychological degree (PHD) so they can professionally appease, sympathize.empathize with any and every given situation to not cause physical or emotional undo trauma/harm. OH- and a fellow police/fire fighter needs to be there for a Second Opinion!

Sheesh, if a cops so bad he intentionally shocks a kid just for kicks he's obviously done a thousand other things wrong and it would've been dealt with long ago with him being in prison for abuse of power or something worse.

Jetblast · #6 (**permalink**) 05-19-2008, 10:06 PM

The police are bullies who react to everything with stupid authority overeactions. Just like the Brooklyn case they fall back on their own abuse of authority to cover their stupid wrongdoings.

They only fired the Philadelphia thugs because they got caught on tape. Otherwise they'd be blowing that case off too.

These cops should try to get that Brooklyn judge.

Programmed wolf-pack robots for law enforcement revenue.

Drogyn · #7 (**permalink**) 05-20-2008, 01:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Tileman

This quote opens the door to a whole new world of litigation which actuall begins with this parents own ignorance and the hopes of hitting the LOTTERY with a lawsuit...

--- Police need more training= You voted down the last bond issue to help out Police and fire fighters! Blame yourself, not us for not having training!
or
--- Police and fire fighters will always be of negligence until they all have both medical degrees with malpractice insurance and psychological degree (PHD) so they can professionally appease, sympathize.empathize with any and every given situation to not cause physical or emotional undo trauma/harm. OH- and a fellow police/fire fighter needs to be there for a Second Opinion!

Sheesh, if a cops so bad he intentionally shocks a kid just for kicks he's obviously done a thousand other things wrong and it would've been dealt with long ago with him being in prison for abuse of power or something worse.

Sure, because it takes a PhD to know not to shock a kid who's having a seizure.

What kind of slack ass cop can't subdue a 16 year old boy? I could damn well do it on my own, and this was several cops. Lameasses needed a taser? Twelve times?

Also, you have no indication of what that boy's parents voted for or against, so stop running your slack mouth.

Also, it's illogical to say he's "obviously" done worse, because you don't know that he has, and there's no real reason to think that he has. Maybe it is indicative of prior bad behavior, but it isn't necessarily.

Cops are scumbags either way. The job makes them evil.

reccles44 · #8 (**permalink**) 05-20-2008, 09:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Tileman

This quote opens the door to a whole new world of litigation which actuall begins with this parents own ignorance and the hopes of hitting the LOTTERY with a lawsuit...

--- Police need more training= You voted down the last bond issue to help out Police and fire fighters! Blame yourself, not us for not having training!
or
--- Police and fire fighters will always be of negligence until they all have both medical degrees with malpractice insurance and psychological degree (PHD) so they can professionally appease, sympathize.empathize with any and every given situation to not cause physical or emotional undo trauma/harm. OH- and a fellow police/fire fighter needs to be there for a Second Opinion!

Sheesh, if a cops so bad he intentionally shocks a kid just for kicks he's obviously done a thousand other things wrong and it would've been dealt with long ago with him being in prison for abuse of power or something worse.

You are totally misguided my friend. The fact is the Police do get special treatment. If an ordinary citizen did half the things a person with a badge did, they would be in jail.

That badge seems to give them special protection. I don't agree with it. We do not live in a police state. And if big strong police with defense and submission training cannot control a 16 year old, they have a problem.

Excesive force in all its forms seems to be getting a pass lately. Not to mention the attitude of the police in general towards the public continues to degrade. People complaining about how police treat them during traffic stops is way up. This is because if a person is to "talk back" to an officer in any way, they are arrested for a number of stupid things that basically trounces their Constitutional rights especially freedom of speech.

This mother should sue and that comes from a person who thinks people are too sue happy in this country. But we need to get our police under control. And for the record, we need to stop lumping police and fire fighters together. They do totally different jobs.

Skinny Fatts · #9 (**permalink**) 05-20-2008, 12:31 PM

I will assume there are people here who have never tried to handcuff someone that does not wish to be cuffed?

cottonbroker · #10 (**permalink**) 05-20-2008, 12:47 PM

The dude should have been wearing a bracelet that stated he had a medical condition. If the cops stop to psychoanalyze everyone they come in contact with, it would be chaos. I say, rough em' and cuff em'.