That is so.. sad
and I'd have to agree with Bernard too.
There are of coarse some good people who are officers,
but there are just as many or more who go into the profession
for the right to bully, and I believe this with all my heart, we see it
time and again on the news, and thousands of others we never hear about.
I personally lived next door to a police officer who was obcessed with me and my family, I always caught him spying on me, but I he thought I couldnt see him. One night while on duty, he called me up at 3 am, called me by name and said he was such and such from the police dept. and that my kids were running up and down the street with paintball guns shooting up cars.
My kids were in bed sleeping, and we didnt own paintball guns.
The next morning I confronted him, and he said that he thought it was my kids, yet there were NO cars that had been paintballed at all. So, he made some other dumb complaints about my kids, and when I asked him why didnt he just come to my door and talk to me? He then said he figured I had a gun and might shoot him! I told him the only person on the street I knew of that I was afraid of that had a gun, was HIM!
I know this has nothing to do with this sad story you relayed, just brought back the memory of what I went through with my old crazy cop neighbor.
He spread rumors all over the neighborhood about my family, said I had this record I didnt have, all sorts of weird stuff. I reported him of coarse a few times, and finally he was fired from the force. So at least his superior was decent enough to do that. In fact he said they had gotten other complaints about him from people he had pulled over for traffic things.
In my opinion, these love to be bully cops are over using these tasors, tasing people for minor things that force did not need to be used in the first place.
Ive seen video's of people being tased repeatedly even after complying, and people being tased just to be tased, because the cop could. For all thsoe we do see, there are many... more we dont. I think the use of tasers should be limited to extreme cases only, and those that violate ought to be sued, lose their jobs, etc. It is a shame what happened to this man! Stupid Cops!