Nude bloody man tasered by police, dies

[Liberal_in_LA]

Nude, bloody man dies after being shot with Taser by Whittier police

WHITTIER - Investigators Wednesday continued piecing together the events leading up to the weekend death of a Whittier man shot by police with a Taser after being found wandering nude and bleeding in Uptown.

James Robert Hudson, 34, of Whittier died at 11:38 p.m. Saturday at Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital, Los Angeles County Department of Coroner Lt. Cheryl MacWillie said.

Whittier police officers found him while responding to reports of a nude and bleeding person running around in the 13800 block of Philadelphia Street, Lt. Mike Rosson of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Homicide Bureau said Wednesday. A witness reported the person had run into the back of a car.

Officers found Hudson, still nude and bleeding from a gash on his head, lying face-down in some ivy, Rosson said. Hudson reportedly did not respond to verbal commands.

"When they go to turn him over to examine him, he jumped up and aggressed the officers," Rosson said.

Fearing that Hudson was either under the influence or mentally unstable, "A Taser was deployed," he said.

"The Taser worked properly," dropping Hudson to the ground, Rosson said. Because he was kicking, both his hands and feet were cuffed.

http://www.whittierdailynews.com/crime/ci_17838352

[Mojeoux]

1. The naked bloody man "aggressed" the cops.

Didn't anyone think that this was someone who had been assaulted? Did he go out running naked, get hit by a car and then was tazed? What about an ambulance for the bleeding man?

Because people don't respond to verbal commands, that means they are hostile and that means taze and cuff them?

This is such crap, I am so sick of these chickenshit cop moves. Why was waiting a few moments, so out of the question?

Cops are NOT soldiers in a war against America's unfortunates.

[demosincebirth]

2. Three cops can't subdue a naked man? I guess they didn't want to get

their uniforms dirty.