Taser Incident Of The Day

by digby

A lawyer was stunned with a Taser twice this afternoon after he became upset at a Tampa Code Enforcement Board meeting, police say.

Tampa lawyer Carl Roland Hayes, 53, was addressing the board when he became irate and verbally abusive, said Lt. Ronald McMullen of the Tampa Police Department. Officials asked Hayes to calm down, but he did not, McMullen said.

As Hayes was being escorted out of the meeting, he slapped an officer’s face, McMullen said.

An officer used a Taser, but it had no obvious effect, police said. Hayes started “fighting and flailing,” McMullen said, and an officer had to press the Taser against Hayes’ body to “drive stun” him.

Those poor cops must have been terrified when slapped that officer. He’s lucky they had the tasers or they would have had to mow him down in a hail of gunfire.

Here are a couple of nice comments to the story:

Posted by ( kooch ) on 11/26/2008 at 07:44 pm.

Wow…he looks like a partner at Uhuru & Uhuru attorneys at law. He was probably trying to arbitrate a dealing crack in a hood zoned only for chronic.

Posted by ( Lawrence ) on 11/26/2008 at 08:29 pm.

Hey Attorney, Cute Photo, Someone passed the Bar exam for you? You can’t buy CLASS, even if you have the Uhuruooos on your side. Go back to filing your racial complaints.

h/t to NO