Australian taser fatality actually hit 28 times......not three.

[Johnno]

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/186582-Australia-Man-dies-after-police-use-Taser

The U.S. disease of tasering has hit our shores downunder.

The following reported on the 12th of June has revealed that the guy tasered who was reported to have been tasered "Three times" was actually tasered TWENTY EIGHT times. I'm not sure if putting 50,000 volts through someone 28 times is going to be good for their health.

I've included the original report on the 12th and a more recent one yesterday.

Australia: Man dies after police use Taser

A man has died after being tasered by police near Ayr, south of Townsville, in north Queensland.

Police say officers were attempting to arrest the man at Brandon early this morning, after they were called to a domestic incident.

The Queensland Police Union (QPU) says a taser was used because the man had a number of weapons and had injured himself.

Queensland Police Minister Neil Roberts says the investigation into the man's death will examine whether a stun gun was used appropriately.

Mr Roberts says the Ethical Standards Command is investigating and the Crime and Misconduct Commission (CMC) and the Coroner have been notified.

"We need to allow the full investigation of all of those agencies to take place and they will be focusing, I'm sure, very critically on the appropriate use of the taser," he said.

Police say their initial information suggests emergency calls were made to police and ambulance about 2.40am AEST.

Police arrived at the scene about 10 minutes later.

In a statement, police said a naked man was acting aggressively and destroying property at a residence at Brandon.

"The 39-year-old man had allegedly assaulted another occupant of the residence and had damaged property and sustained cuts to his arm," the statement said.

"It is believed that a Taser was deployed and that police managed to physically subdue the man.

"However, before the ambulance could arrive at the scene the man stopped breathing."

Police say efforts to resuscitate the man failed and the incident is being treated as a death in custody.

A report will also be prepared for the coroner.

Later report from the Australian yesterday.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25654540-601,00.html

QUEENSLAND police have admitted that evidence shows an officer last week fired a 50,000-volt Taser 28 times into a man who died minutes later.\

The admission follows an exclusive report today in The Australian revealing that an inbuilt system in the controversial gun - which automatically records each time the weapon is fired - had debunked initial police claims the Taser was used only three times in the incident.

The revelations have fuelled opposition to the roll-out of the weapons across Australia, with three deaths now related to Taser use in Australia.

Amphetamines addict Antonio Galeano, 39, collapsed and died while still in handcuffs last Friday morning.

It is alleged police were called to a unit in Brandon, south of Townsville, after Mr Galeano assaulted a woman and confronted two officers with a metal bar.

The Deputy Commissioner of Queensland Police, Ian Stewart, said it was not clear how many times Mr Galeano was actually shot with the weapon and that the investigation was looking at a possible malfunction of the weapon.

“That's obviously a very important question and one that we know the investigation will be looking at,” Mr Stewart told ABC radio.

But Mr Stewart said despite the possiblity the weapon was flawed, the 1200 tasers currently in use by Queensland police would not be withdrawn.

“We don't intend to withdraw the Tasers from those police who are currently trained to use them because we believe Tasers actually save lives,” he said.

On Monday, the roll-out of a further 1300 Tasers to Queensland police was halted to await the findings of a Crime and Misconduct investigation into the incident.

The Queensland death comes just two months after an Alice Springs man died in custody following the use of capsicum spray and a Taser on him during a domestic dispute.

It also follows the launch of an investigation at the weekend in NSW after new CCTV footage appeared to contradict a police report clearing officers over the Taser shooting of a Sydney man on March 29.

In May 2002, NSW man Gary Pearce died of a heart attack about two weeks after being shot with a stun gun when he threatened police with a frying pan.

 

[Third_Density_Resident]

You should read this chilling quote from a key witness:

Sandra Wynne, a key witness to the incident, yesterday revealed she begged police to stop when they repeatedly used a Taser on Mr Galeano in her bathroom.

"They were electrocuting him. He was screaming in pain," she said. "It looked like someone had a bolt of lightning hitting him and taking every last bit of life out of him."

And yet despite this, about 75% of comments on that article were in support of the police. Never has there been such a good case study of ponerization in action! What further acts of moral depravity are required to get people to WAKE UP??? Someone commented it would have been far more humane to have just shot the man dead and be done with it.

I believe that in Victoria the Police Commissioner held back on issuing Tasers for general police use. If so, then that's a lot better than the situation in Queensland (which "fast-tracked" taser deployment and issued them halfway through trials).

I am alarmed at how shockingly fast all of this has spiralled out of control. I couldn't believe how fast Tasers were introduced to this country (especially Queensland). But I had some faint hope that the police here wouldn't be so cowboy-like with Tasers as they've been in the U.S. Alas I was proved wrong. Psychopaths the world over are all the same.

 

[Oxajil]

You should read this chilling quote from a key witness:

Sandra Wynne, a key witness to the incident, yesterday revealed she begged police to stop when they repeatedly used a Taser on Mr Galeano in her bathroom.

"They were electrocuting him. He was screaming in pain," she said. "It looked like someone had a bolt of lightning hitting him and taking every last bit of life out of him."

And yet despite this, about 75% of comments on that article were in support of the police. Never has there been such a good case study of ponerization in action! What further acts of moral depravity are required to get people to WAKE UP???

Perhaps some of those commenter's will realize the true situation if they would be in the middle of it, when it's happening to them or to someone they are close with, watching it from close. Then they will change their "opinion" immediately, I'm sure..

 

[Third_Density_Resident]

That is always possible, however it might also show that they are incapable of putting themselves in another person's shoes (either the victim's or the witness's), which is a scary (and a very likely) possibility.

 

[Laura]

That's just plain murder.

 

[Lorraine]

I had a discussion (at a Reiki group of all places and I guess that's why I was upset by it) just before news of Mr Galeano's death broke out.

I mentioned how bad it was to introduce tasers in Australia. One lady said it was a good thing and that it would control people better. I told her it has killed people in the US. Everyone was surprised and unconvinced. I quickly realized the conversation was leading nowhere, their minds were closed and of course I was not in an ideal place to discuss this.

It was a lesson for me though. I could see the public really was uneducated by the press and the government can introduce anything they want silently......Its getting too close to home now. :(