re: Dashcam footage of cop tasing, dragging, and dropping teen is unsealed

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is there a time limit to taze someone?

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That being said, pretty sure this cop loses his job and wages from a law suit as he should. No need for that.

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is there a time limit to taze someone?

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Again, Bryce refused. Runnels stepped back, stood straight, took a shooting position, and again grabbed his Taser from its holster. This time, he didn’t reconsider. “All right, fine, frick it,” he said, aiming the Taser at Bryce and pulling the trigger. The clicking sound of the Taser shock began, followed by pulsating ticks of electricity shooting through copper wires and into Bryce.

Runnels grabbed Bryce’s cellphone, throwing it in front of the car, demanding that he get on the ground. As if possessed, Bryce slowly got out of the car and lay down on the pavement at Runnels’s feet. The ticking sound of the Taser continued. Bryce let out a piercing scream. Runnels ignored it. “Told ya!” he said.

Until that point, the Masters had no idea how long Bryce had actually been tased. As Bryce lay prone in the street, Runnels continued to deploy the Taser. It was unbearable for Matt. He jumped up from his seat and yelled, “What the frick? Holy frick, let off the goddamn trigger!”

A full 23 seconds after Runnels pulled the trigger on the X26 Taser, he let it go and handcuffed Bryce. But Bryce wasn’t moving. Runnels told him to get up. Bryce didn’t budge. So Runnels grabbed him by the arms and pulled him, with the boy’s legs dragging on the ground between Runnels’ shuffling feet, toward the side of the road. Then Runnels released Bryce’s arms and allowed him to drop face first onto the street. A snapping thud filled the room — the sound of Bryce’s 175-pound frame hitting the pavement as his teeth crashed together and his jaw dislocated.

Bryce began to moan.“You don’t like to play by the rules, do you,” Runnels said. The Masters could see Bryce’s heart heaving up and down on the screen, an indication that he was going through cardiac arrest. Runnels seemed to ignore all this and, as the video shot by a neighbor makes clear, he put his right foot onto Bryce’s back. “Bryce, better sit up,” he said. “I don’t play games.”

Bryce didn’t respond.

“I’ve been tased a dozen times,” Runnels said to Bryce. “It doesn’t act like that.”

Another officer arrived on scene and Runnels explained that there was a warrant on Bryce’s plate — ostensibly the reason for the stop. The new officer referred to Bryce, lying there stationary. “Wake up, guy,” the officer said. Then, to Runnels: “He’s turning blue.”

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His stupid little tantrum ruined a bunch of lives

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I think the 23 seconds of tasering is overboard, but I understand that the cops are taught that it's impossible to kill someone with it, so I don't think the cop was trying to kill the kid (or had any idea it could cause permanent injury

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The real reason he should spend some time in jail is that he apparently decided to arrest someone for no reason whatsoever, and then escalated it to violence and tasering of his own volition. Unfortunately this probably had no bearing on him going to prison.

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And the Standford rape chick shouldn't have been drunk...right?

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.the cop was rightfully arrested, lost his job AND is going to prison

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ALL of them got exactly what they deserve. I realize this is difficult for some, but read the fricking article. This is one of the most cut and dried cases of police brutality, and covering their own asses you're ever likely to find. and, in this case, we're not even talking about a jump to conclusions based on a video with no context. This motherfricker was CONVICTED... And yet, as is typical for this cesspool of a board (that seems ok with this kind of stuff but will filter dirty words) even this isn't enough to simply call a spade a spade if it means saying something bad about a cop.

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