Wednesday, March 12, 2008

That Tasering Will Cost You

Taxpayers ultimately pick up the tab.

Maybe if this happens enough, the fascisat sadists will start to back off!!!!

To SERVE and PROTECT, not TORTURE, remember?!

"Motorist gets $40,000 in Taser suit"

"by Brock Vergakis, Associated Press | March 12, 2008

SALT LAKE CITY - A motorist who became an Internet celebrity after a video of him being stunned with a Taser by a state trooper appeared on YouTube will receive $40,000 in a lawsuit settlement with the state, the Utah attorney general's office said Monday....

The video has been viewed on YouTube at least 1.7 million times and shows Gardner drawing his stun gun after the 28-year-old Massey would not accept a speeding ticket.

Massey's lawyer, Bob Sykes, said he is pleased with the settlement offer.

"They made what we consider to be a very fair offer of a significant amount of money," he said.

The Utah Highway Patrol said the trooper's use of the Taser was justified, but that his attitude was a problem. Gardner was placed on administrative leave for a few weeks and received training in conflict resolution...."

Oh, how horrid!

What punishment!!!

I'll remember that when I am accused of violence that I would never commit!!!!


Sig Heil!!!!