SC Autistic Man Assaulted & Tasered For Walking Down Street While Black
Police Taser and Arrest Severely Autistic Man for Walking Down the Street
By Mike Sawyer * December 27, 2014 * The Free Thought Project
Tario Anderson was simply walking down the street. Because of that he was assaulted, kidnapped, and charged with a crime and the Greenville police department doesn’t see anything wrong with it.
Greenville, SC — An innocent 34-year-old autistic man was tasered and arrested by police on Christmas eve because he was walking down the street at night.
Greenville City Police were in the area responding to reports of gunshots when they came across Tario Anderson and shined a spotlight in the innocent man’s face. Anderson reacted by walking away from this stressful sensory overload.
“When they put their spotlight on him, he immediately put his head down, put his hands in his pockets and began to walk away from him,” Officer Johnathan Bragg with Greenville Police said. “They then got out of the vehicle and approached him and ordered him to stop at which point he did flee from the officers and they pursued him.”
Anderson had committed no crime but since he did not immediately bow down to the police, he was tasered and cops piled on top of him.
His mother, Carolyn Anderson, said he has severe autism, does not understand much and did not need to be arrested or shocked with a Taser.
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. He didn't understand. And still they double down? I hope a really good attorney steps forward and helps them.
