Another Day Another Taser Death
by digby
He had a “medical issue” otherwise known as “dying from electrocution”:
An Oklahoma City man police were trying to arrest Thursday died a short time after officers shot him with a Taser in the city’s second fatal incident involving the device since July, police said.
Police did not identify the man Thursday, but a relative identified him as Gary Lee Grossenbacher, 48. The relative, Grossenbacher’s sister-in-law Kim Cooke, of Minneapolis, declined further comment.
Two officers and paramedics responded to a domestic dispute call about 6:40 a.m. in the 100 block of Sonora, Knight said. A man and woman were in an altercation at their house, and the woman told officers the man hit her.
The man resisted as officers tried arrest him. At least one of the two officers sprayed him with oleoresin capsicum, commonly known as pepper spray, and shocked him with a Taser, Knight said. The man had a medical issue moments later.
Paramedics already on the scene treated the man and took him to Mercy Health Center, where he died, Knight said.
Oh wait, there’s another one:
A South Carolina coroner says a man who died after he was stunned by police officer was a homicide victim.
But multiple media outlets reported the Greenville County coroner’s office says state investigators should decide if there was criminal wrongdoing in the death of 39-year-old Andrew Torres on Aug. 9.
Coroner Parks Evans says the mentally ill man died from an irregular heart beat as the result of having an enlarged heart, the physical strain of fighting with police and being stunned with Tasers.
Police Chief Terri Wilfong has said her officers followed proper procedures when they went to a home to take Torres into custody for involuntary psychiatric commitment
The mentally ill in the country have targets on their backs. When they are suffering from some kind of break or are delusional, they can’t make the “decision” to comply so they get electrocuted — and some of them die. Anyone who has a relative who is mentally ill should be aware of this. They are in danger.
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