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Fall down the stairs, crack a joke, get electrocuted in your own living room
Watch how this man "resists arrest".
Really, take a look at this and ponder the question of not the correctness of what these "officers" did, but rather how many times they should have been shot to make sure they stopped doing it.
"The incident occurred on June 29, 2009 shortly after midnight when Marin County resident Peter McFarland and his wife Pearl returned home from a charity fundraising event. McFarland slipped on steps leading to his home and suffered injuries to his leg, arm and head. His wife then called paramedics from a nearby fire station who helped him in and treated his wounds.
McFarland says as the paramedics were leaving, two Sheriff's deputies "bolted into his home."
"The sheriffs ran up the stairs into the room here like a bunch of cowboys," he said.
ABC7 obtained the audio and video captured by a camera mounted on the Taser. It shows McFarland sitting on a couch with the gun's laser beam targeted on his chest. The deputy repeatedly tells him that he is going to take him to a hospital to be evaluated because of a comment McFarland made previously that he would "shoot himself in the head."
It is unclear who heard the comment but McFarland told ABC7 in an exclusive interview that it was just "hyperbole" and that he was tired and in pain from his injuries.
The interchange continues for about five minutes with the deputy ordering McFarland to get up from the couch. Finally, McFarland yells at the deputies to get out of his home and then stands up. At that point, a deputy fires his Taser -- not once, but three times as McFarland cries out in obvious pain on the ground while the other deputy tries to handcuff him. All the while, the deputy tells McFarland to stop resisting.
"It was excruciating, I never had so much pain in my life," McFarland said.
Deputies finally restrained him and took him to jail on a charge of resisting arrest. A judge later dismissed that charge."
Watch how this man "resists arrest".
Really, take a look at this and ponder the question of not the correctness of what these "officers" did, but rather how many times they should have been shot to make sure they stopped doing it.
"The incident occurred on June 29, 2009 shortly after midnight when Marin County resident Peter McFarland and his wife Pearl returned home from a charity fundraising event. McFarland slipped on steps leading to his home and suffered injuries to his leg, arm and head. His wife then called paramedics from a nearby fire station who helped him in and treated his wounds.
McFarland says as the paramedics were leaving, two Sheriff's deputies "bolted into his home."
"The sheriffs ran up the stairs into the room here like a bunch of cowboys," he said.
ABC7 obtained the audio and video captured by a camera mounted on the Taser. It shows McFarland sitting on a couch with the gun's laser beam targeted on his chest. The deputy repeatedly tells him that he is going to take him to a hospital to be evaluated because of a comment McFarland made previously that he would "shoot himself in the head."
It is unclear who heard the comment but McFarland told ABC7 in an exclusive interview that it was just "hyperbole" and that he was tired and in pain from his injuries.
The interchange continues for about five minutes with the deputy ordering McFarland to get up from the couch. Finally, McFarland yells at the deputies to get out of his home and then stands up. At that point, a deputy fires his Taser -- not once, but three times as McFarland cries out in obvious pain on the ground while the other deputy tries to handcuff him. All the while, the deputy tells McFarland to stop resisting.
"It was excruciating, I never had so much pain in my life," McFarland said.
Deputies finally restrained him and took him to jail on a charge of resisting arrest. A judge later dismissed that charge."
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