Man dies after police use stun gun during arrest to "subdue" subject

[Bluebear]

LAS VEGAS - A man died Saturday morning after being arrested by Metro Police officers, who used an electronic control device to subdue the suspect, police said.

Police said an officer performed a traffic stop at 1:07 a.m. near the 1000 block of West Lake Mead Boulevard, near Martin L. King Boulevard in west Las Vegas.

While the officer was speaking to the vehicle’s driver, who was the only occupant, the driver tried to flee on foot.

The driver ran north across Lake Mead and jumped over a wall into the backyard of an abandoned residence in the 1000 block of Hart Avenue.

The officer followed the suspect into the backyard as other officers arrived. The officers attempted to take the suspect into custody, but he “aggressively resist(ed) the officers,” police said in a statement.

The officers used an electronic device on the suspect several times, police said.

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/dec/11/man-dies-after-police-use-stun-gun-during-arrest/

[SmileyRose]

1. Another week - another American killed by the cops

Sigh.

[Demoiselle]

2. Why did the cops stop him in the first place?

Not in the story. Why did the las Vegas Sun not push harder for the answer to that question?
Oh, aargh. I don't want to blame the Newspaper...still..the news here isn't that tasering can kill ya, but that we don't even know why they were chasing him....
Damn.

[ixion]

3. And by 'subdue' they mean

'torture to death' :grr:

[Matariki]

4. "electronic control device" ???

Seriously? Is this Zardoz or something?

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[Bluebear]

6. What a mucho estupido statement. nt

[muchacho caliente]

8. Why is it "estupido"? Do you think it's untrue?

???

[fascisthunter]

7. whether they meant to or not is irrelevant

somebody died due to their actions.

But your attempt to soften this news has been noted.