Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Officers Who Used Taser 8 Times on Disabled Woman Get Prison

Two former small town police officers in South Carolina were sentenced to prison time Monday for unnecessarily shocking a mentally disabled woman with a Taser at least eight times. Franklin Brown, 35, was sentenced to 18 months in prison and his fellow Marion police officer Eric Walters, 39, was sentenced to a year and a day. Brown's sentence was longer because he shocked 40-year-old Melissa Davis while she was already handcuffed in April 2013.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Good.

Anonymous said...

When Americans see dirty JBTs going to jail on a regular basis, for their Criminal Actions, respect for LEO will grow by leaps and bounds. As that happens, officers will chill out - finally realizing that the law REALLY DOES actually apply to them the same as it does to the rest of us.

Cops are "on the clock" 24 hours a day. No Criminal can hide from TIME. Wanna serve a warrant on a house? Fine. Serve it. If they barricade inside - fine. Wait them out with the house surrounded. Everybody gotta come out sometime. Can't get a warrant? Good, then go fool with the criminals that you CAN get a warrant for. That means more innocents are less hassled. That will increase respect too...cuz it would be earned.

Seems pretty simple all around - so why isn't it happening ?

Anonymous said...

OH MY! Them pigs ain't gonna' like what's comin'! I sincerely hope.

Anonymous said...

PLEASE put them in with general pop, with NO special protections. The inmates will find out quick enough who they are and what they did. 'Nuff said.

B Woodman
III-PER

wyowanderer said...

"This one incident can cause the public to lose respect and overshadow the good work, the hard work, done by thousands of officers every day," Harwell said.
Too late.

Anonymous said...

ANIMALS!

Anonymous said...

wyowanderer,
Or, as we said in the Army, "One aw shit wipes out a hundred atta boys."

B Woodman
III-per