Texas Cop Nathanial Robinson Uses Stun Gun On Elderly Man Over Inspection Sticker

The cop never even reaches for the paper like the article claims. Straight for the wrist.

 

Needs to be balanced out with "I am liberal bandwagon activist that does not wait for all the facts and now has left the Michael Brown cause, because I just found out he was actually guilty" thread.

 

Show me your t***!

I'm an officer!

You won't? You are resisting

You are the only one to blame.

bigtexxx logic.

 

that does suck, nope after he got thru being an ******* he let us go

 

What do you expect from dumbasses that never went to college and have a GED?

 

Um. Were you jaywalking?

 

Looking at the video while Vasquez isn't cooperating he doesn't appear to be violent or physically resisting. At 1:12 in the video Officer Robinson grabs Vasquez's wrist and attempts an arm lock on him in a restraint position to most likely put cuffs on Vasquez. Now we can't hear what is said but I find it troubling that the officer felt he had to move to restrain a suspect that while verbally uncooperative isn't violent and especially one who is elderly.

Officer Robinson fails in his attempt to restrain Vasquez using the arm bar and proceeds to a a modified half nelson take down (note with no arm across the neck). This is important for two reasons:

First is this ties back to something I said in the case of Officer Pantaleo and Garner. There are takedown techniques that are safer than the one that Officer Pantaleo used to take down Garner. In the Staten island case the LE goes straight for Garner's neck while here the officer goes for shoulder and body control. Granted there are some big differences in size between Vasquez and Garner but such techniques can be used on larger individuals without endangering air or blood flow.

That said though this technique still isn't absolutely safe and if you freeze the video at 1:17 you can see that a significant amount of pressure is being applied to the back of Vasquez's neck also while we can't see the end of the takedown judging by how they both fall there also is a very big potential for injury to Vasquez. My own opinion is that such a technique on a 76 year old man is potentially more dangerous than even the tazer as both the pressure on the back of the neck and the impact of the fall during the takedown could be lethal.

Leaving aside that Officer Robinson was wrong in the first place to even stop Vasquez this seems like another situation of lack of control on the part of the LE during the arrest.

 

Are you sexy... He was probably trying to holla at you. Cops will do that.

 

Can't resist arrest... Even if it's something you shouldn't be arrested for. That old man is lucky that kid didn't kill him.

 

Resist arrest? The officer grabbed his wrist without warning. It's a natural reaction to pull your arm away.

 

Nice sly way of getting your unfounded opinions across lol. It's in a pub med article from a few years ago hmmm? You're just throwing **** at the wall hoping something sticks with your multiple tidbits of "Reasoning". I've grown up listening to rap and playing violent video games and i'm no more inclined to violence because of it. They're just forms of entertainment and whether or not that effects someone in that way depends entirely on the person. The idea that these things make people more violent is totally archaic.

 

And cops wonder why they get zero respect these days.

Perhaps we should start paying cops a decent wage so we can get more than 90-IQ idiots in the ranks. We need to start pulling from a higher quality group of people or things will never change.

 

You might have missed the joke

 

And pay more taxes? Yeah right. The Rich folk are fine since they don't have to encounter this.

 

Oh no I just woke up and found out I'm r****ded. My kids probably agree with you.

 

Reallocation of tax monies is the way to do it.

Either that, or just fixed the god damned streets. This city is an embarrassment. I can't image what it's like to bring in international business people and then drive them around on our third world roads. And yes, I have driven on plenty of developing nation roads. There are countless places in Houston that remind me of it everyday.

 

Even if he resisted (which come on ... he is in his 70's) is this how we want our police treated civilians? This cop like many cops today escalated the situation instead of de-escalating and it turned from calm to violent. They don't need to inject aggression and anger into every situation. Most situations can be handled by staying calm and keeping everyone else calm.

 

90 IQ is the low end of average.

 

Same thing. The Rich don't care. The Corps don't have to since they get tax breaks to stay or move here.

 

Because the Media and social media feast on the negative and rarely show all the good that cops do (although the good greatly outnumbers the bad)

Its not the pay that makes people idiots, its the training or lack thereof. The Same with teachers...people say "pay them more and they'll perform better"..however teachers in bad school districts are already typically paid more than teachers in good school districts...and their still not performing as well.