When three Virginia police officers put Linwood Lambert in a squad car around 5 a.m. on May 4, 2013, they said they were taking him to the ER for medical attention because he was speaking delusionally. Just over an hour later, Lambert died in police custody.

 

He was never given medical care, though the officers of South Boston, Va. did drive him to the hospital. He was not initially put under arrest, though the officers ultimately arrested him, shackled his hands and legs, and tased him repeatedly. While in custody he was agitated and ran from the officers. Ambulance workers say police later claimed he fought them at a time when videos show he was actually unconscious. Police dispute that account and deny allegations of excessive force.

 

Over two years later, there have been no charges and no full public accounting of what happened. But a new investigation, including police videos obtained exclusively by MSNBC, shows the deadly trip for the first time.

 

Driven to hospital, Virginia man tased, shackled and dies in police custody | MSNBC

Even I think this was too much tasing.

Putting the incident to the side for a moment, I cannot believe that it took two years for the police to release the video, and that was due to a wrongful death suit and they were ordered to do so. It appears there is some question of what was put down on the report.

Some of our friends that are familiar with LEO training should be able to answer this: Is there any circumstance that would acceptable to tase someone 20 times in a half hour? I would have to think that anyone that is trained to carry and use a taser would know better than that.

The autopsy said the amount of cocaine in his system was the physical response to the tazing.

If Ben Carson was tased twenty times, would he then open his eyes when he talked?

If Obama was tased twenty times would the lies and deceit continue..

Some of our friends that are familiar with LEO training should be able to answer this: Is there any circumstance that would acceptable to tase someone 20 times in a half hour? I would have to think that anyone that is trained to carry and use a taser would know better than that.

 

My question is, if the man is not coked up, does not kick out the window and take off running does he get tased at all? May not even be arrested. While 20 times (I only saw about 10) may be excessive, it just goes to show that drugs are bad and doing dumb things in front of cops is bad.

1) Why does every thread have to have politics brought into it? It's tiresome.

 

2) The fact this video wasn't released for two years is a joke. There is no reason for someone to be tazed 20 times.

1. He was obviously under the influence of something. Thus the LEO took him to the hospital.

 

2. He kicked the window out and fled the police unit upon arriving.

 

3. He then attempted to use his body to smash into the glass door of the Hospital where health care and patients are.

 

4. He is tasered.

 

5. He refuses to give up his aggression despite tazerings.

 

6. Put into car and tazed again because he won't quite the fight.

 

7. Taken to Police Station.

 

8. Unresponsive at the Station so rescue is called.

 

9. Taken back to the Hospital he started with and died from the combo of drugs, stress and tazing involved.

 

I think that's the jest of it all.

1) Why does every thread have to have politics brought into it? It's tiresome.

 

2) The fact this video wasn't released for two years is a joke. There is no reason for someone to be tazed 20 times.

 

I find it excessive as well but a coked up, large dude can take a lot of persuading to go down and submit.

The autopsy said the amount of cocaine in his system was the physical response to the tazing.

 

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Tazing impacted the level of cocaine in his system?

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Tazing impacted the level of cocaine in his system?

 

It was early morning Jumper. :lol2:

 

The amount of cocaine, coupled with the tazing led to the demise of the deceased.

 

:thumb:

I find it excessive as well but a coked up, large dude can take a lot of persuading to go down and submit.

 

I understand that but 20 times still feels very excessive. Especially for a man already cuffed. I have to think someone in there, the 3 officers on scene could've physically restrained him.

I'm no Taser expert but I've witnessed the police taser someone and I've spoken to people that have been tasered.

 

I saw the police taser a guy that was fighting them...As soon as the taser quit he went back to fighting again. Was tasered a second and then third time before he gave up and quit fighting...He wasn't high, just didn't want to be arrested.

 

Taser cycle is I believe 8 seconds long and by all accounts the moment it shuts off the pain stops immediately.

 

Unlike on TV or in the movies Tasers DO NOT knock anyone unconscious, they are as awake and alert afterwards as they were before.

 

So was this guy tasered excessively, I don't know I've not watched the video. But every time an officer strikes someone the first response from many is why didn't they use a taser to subdue him, why did they punch or strike him with an asp.