Man dies after cutting neck, being Tasered by police

[The Straight Story]

Man dies after cutting neck, being Tasered by police
The Bakersfield Californian | Monday, Oct 29 2007 7:11 AM

Last Updated: Monday, Oct 29 2007 7:11 AM

A schizophrenic man who had been drinking cut his neck as deputies used a Taser on him and he later died at Kern Medical Center.

The man, whose name was not released, was in an apartment in the 800 block of Roberts Lane when deputies arrived at 7:50 p.m. on Sunday, according to a Sheriff’s Department news release. Deputies found the man in a bedroom holding a knife to his neck. He refused to comply with repeated commands to drop the knife.

Deputies used a Taser on the man just as he pierced his neck with the knife, the news release said. He was transported to KMC and later pronounced dead.

http://www.bakersfield.com/hourly_news/story/271535.html

[shadowknows69]

1. This might be the one instance recently

where a taser might have saved a life. The article was a little vague on whether or not the man dies of his knife wound or complications from the taser. If it's the former than I think the cops did the right thing trying to get this guy to stop from killing himself.

[Dhalgren]

2. My bet is that tasering caused him to cut his neck.

Tasering causes the victim to spasm uncontrollably, if he had a knife to his neck, then tasering could have caused the injury. We'll never know...

[shadowknows69]

3. Didn't consider that

Good point.

[Traveling_Home]

4. Instead of insuring that Police and .....

other LEOs are properly trained in how to work with persons with severe psychiatric disabilities, Cops are showing a nationwide trend of 'taking the easy way" and just pulling out a taser and going at it. If LEOs had properly used intervention skills this sad occurance might not have happened and one less internally tortured human being might not be dead.