Sipsey Street Irregulars: Officers Who Used Taser 8 Times on Disabled Woman Get Prison

Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Officers Who Used Taser 8 Times on Disabled Woman Get Prison

Two former small town police officers in South Carolina were sentenced to prison time Monday for unnecessarily shocking a mentally disabled woman with a Taser at least eight times. Franklin Brown, 35, was sentenced to 18 months in prison and his fellow Marion police officer Eric Walters, 39, was sentenced to a year and a day. Brown's sentence was longer because he shocked 40-year-old Melissa Davis while she was already handcuffed in April 2013.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...: Good.; April 29, 2015 at 5:38 PM
Anonymous said...: When Americans see dirty JBTs going to jail on a regular basis, for their Criminal Actions, respect for LEO will grow by leaps and bounds. As that happens, officers will chill out - finally realizing that the law REALLY DOES actually apply to them the same as it does to the rest of us.

Cops are "on the clock" 24 hours a day. No Criminal can hide from TIME. Wanna serve a warrant on a house? Fine. Serve it. If they barricade inside - fine. Wait them out with the house surrounded. Everybody gotta come out sometime. Can't get a warrant? Good, then go fool with the criminals that you CAN get a warrant for. That means more innocents are less hassled. That will increase respect too...cuz it would be earned.

Seems pretty simple all around - so why isn't it happening ?; April 29, 2015 at 6:54 PM
Anonymous said...: OH MY! Them pigs ain't gonna' like what's comin'! I sincerely hope.; April 29, 2015 at 9:02 PM
Anonymous said...: PLEASE put them in with general pop, with NO special protections. The inmates will find out quick enough who they are and what they did. 'Nuff said.

B Woodman
III-PER; April 29, 2015 at 10:41 PM
Anonymous said...: "This one incident can cause the public to lose respect and overshadow the good work, the hard work, done by thousands of officers every day," Harwell said.
Too late.; April 30, 2015 at 9:37 AM
Anonymous said...: ANIMALS!; April 30, 2015 at 10:32 AM
Anonymous said...: wyowanderer,
Or, as we said in the Army, "One aw shit wipes out a hundred atta boys."

B Woodman
III-per; April 30, 2015 at 4:39 PM

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