Officer fired for tasering unconscious man

[The Straight Story]

Officer fired for tasering unconscious man

By Michael Maresh, Roundup staff reporter

Friday, March 16, 2007

When a Payson police officer tasered an unconscious man in November, it was the final straw that cost him his job.

Christopher Harold appealed the termination to the Payson Personnel Board. On Thursday night, the board recommended to the Payson Town Council to uphold the termination.

The council, after a 20-minute executive session, voted 5-2, with Councilors Mike Vogel and Tim Fruth in dissent, to uphold the termination.

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Bihn said Harold was called to a scene in November where a man had passed out. Attempts to wake the man failed, and another officer, Reed Watson, wondered if a taser would wake the man.

Harold then tasered the man, who instantly regained consciousness.

When firefighters arrived a few minutes later, the officers informed them a taser had been used.

One firefighter got into a verbal altercation with Watson on the scene over the incident, Bihn said. As the two men argued, the firefighter heard someone telling him to, "Shut up," unless he wanted to be tasered, too.

http://www.paysonroundup.com/section/frontpage_lead/story/27829

What a dick.

[babylonsister]

1. Some titles just blow me the flock away; this is one of them. nt

[1620rock]

2. They should have tasered the cop's ass out the door. eom

[BlooInBloo]

3. Gee - I just don't understand what so many people have against cops.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

5. Cue all the usual nostrums:

"Lives on the line every day", "Thin Blue Line", "Blue Knights"...

But then again, action-packed hours of TV cannot be made about guys who work in the QA lab of a plastics factory.

[BlooInBloo]

6. Blue Wall of Silence?

Ooops - wrong thrust. Sorry.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

4. Wouldn't a swift kick to the head have sufficed?

:sarcasm: Wakey wakey... G'damn this shit makes me angry.