Man tasered and beaten by small-town police officers dies.

[ColesCountyDem]

This happened about a mile from my home (I live in an unincorporated area outside of the village limits), and virtually everyone in the entire area (including many sworn L.E.O.'s) is both shocked and angry. Aside from the obvious reasons behind the shock and anger, there is an additional one: the VAST MAJORITY of the sworn L.E.O.'s in this area are pleasant, polite and culturally inclined toward 'informal resolution' of most problems they encounter, a la Andy Griffith's character in 'Mayberry R.F.D'.

Our Sheriff and State's Attorney jointly requested the I.S.P. to investigate this incident, and I know for a fact that the US D.O.J.'s Civil Right's Division and F.B.I. have also been contacted and are awaiting the result of the I.S.P.'s investigation.

http://thesouthern.com/news/local/isp-probes-death-of-buckner-man/article_e98fb9b0-eb79-11e2-a010-0019bb2963f4.html

[Kolesar]

1. “Roy was on the ground shaking. He had a pacemaker and that did not respond well to electric shocks"

Handcuffed him then kicked and punched him in front of a dozen witnesses

[vaberella]

2. Broad brush, but i really hate cops. n/t

[Kolesar]

3. In my home town, the cops were on the take from the drug rackets...eom

[yardwork]

4. Mine too.

[Cirque du So-What]

7. It (cops on the take, drug rackets) was so bad in one small city where I once lived

that 'clean' cops were imported from Columbus until the feds got a handle on the situation.

[ColesCountyDem]

5. Yep! That's part of the reason so many people are horrified and angry about this!

While there is the occasion 'tussle' with an officer(s), this level of violence during an arrest is almost unheard of here.

[kentuck]

6. Yeah, but how often does this happen?

[The Straight Story]

8. Miami Police Chief: Those With Heart Problems Shouldn't Break the Law To Avoid Being Tased

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023240555

[Mariana]

9. "Several people, including police and first responders,

pulled McKinney off Barnhart."

Good on them.

It's nice to see an example of police officers trying to protect a victim of one of their colleagues. This is extremely unusual. Normally, when there are other cops on the scene when something like this takes place, they will either stand by and take no action whatsoever to stop the abuse, or they'll actively take part in it themselves.

Of course, if it went down the way it's described in the article, McKinney should have been arrested on the spot, the same way anyone else who did those things would have been.

i understand the article may not have all the facts. I'd like to know what the other people who witnessed the event have to say about it.

[ColesCountyDem]

11. The Sheriff's deputies, two firemen and another police officer pulled him off of Mr. Barnhart

The article is pretty shy on facts, as you note. Police violence on a civilian of this sort is virtually unheard of down here, which is why even other sworn L.E.O.'s are horrified and angry about this incident. While the officer wasn't arrested on the spot, he was placed in the back of a deputy's car until he 'cooled down' and the Sheriff and State's Attorney arrived on the scene. Those two gentleman IMMEDIATELY summoned the I.S.P. to handle the investigation, and the I.S.P. made the decision not to arrest him then and there.

[bigdarryl]

10. Was he African American?

[ColesCountyDem]

12. No, he was Caucasian. n/t

[bigdarryl]

13. Still fucked up situation regardless I'm embarrassed as a former Law enforcement officer

At how so many cops are acting unprofessionally.I think one of the reasons is steroid use by a lot of officers .Yep that's right I said it and its true most officers have to have random drug testing but they don't test for steroids

[ColesCountyDem]

14. Two of my cousins are deputies, and they are just apalled by this!

This *sshat was quietly 'permitted to resign' from another agency in 2002 after he shot a dog and pepper-sprayed a cat. Of course, that agency didn't mention a thing about those incidents when the village was screening applicants. It only came to light AFTER Sunday's tragic clusterf*ck.