Blind Man Tasered By Police

[chippy348]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-39...

Apparently waiting for a train and the police mistook his stick for a gun, how the hell did they do that ?

[richs2891]

Think the police \ persons that reported it as a gun are in need of a white stick

[creampuff]

The blind dude is damned lucky this didn't happen in the United States, that's all I can say.

[carinaman]

Another thread on it in NP&E:

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[BlueHave]

The way some police forces are with armed response and terrorism these days it's a miracle he lived.

Remember the poor bloke in the 90's or early 00's that got shot dead by armed police when carrying a chair leg in a plastic bag.

Once he gets over the shock I suspect he'll get a nice payout.

[QuickQuack]

BlueHave said:

The way some police forces are with armed response and terrorism these days it's a miracle he lived.

Remember the poor bloke in the 90's or early 00's that got shot dead by armed police when carrying a chair leg in a plastic bag.

Once he gets over the shock I suspect he'll get a nice payout.

There isn't enough detail on how the blind chap was acting to be able to comment in this situation but the moron in South London with the chair leg was very different. He was actively pretending there was a firearm in the bag, he was warned several times by the police, he refused to comply with the orders of armed officers, who were pointing their guns at him, repeatedly telling him to put the bag down, and only then he was shot. When I was in that area one day, many years after the inquiry had established the facts, some random woman came up to me asking me to sign a petition to have another inquiry. She was rather put off and quite rude when I politely refused to sign.

[Amused2death]

I posted this on the other thread.

If he was blind how would he know they were talking to him? His agitated state could have been because he knew something was happening (Because of the shouting) but could do nothing about it because of his visual impairment.

[paulwirral]

They said on the local news yesterday it was a folding - collapsible type of stick .

[creampuff]

paulwirral said:

They said on the local news yesterday it was a folding - collapsible type of stick .

Sounds like a tactical white stick. Can't be too careful!!

[Bright Halo]

That must have been awful for the blind guy.
At least if you are sighted you would have some idea it was coming and tensed or mentally have been in some kind of ready state.

[elanfan]

BlueHave said:

The way some police forces are with armed response and terrorism these days it's a miracle he lived.

Remember the poor bloke in the 90's or early 00's that got shot dead by armed police when carrying a chair leg in a plastic bag.

Once he gets over the shock I suspect he'll get a nice payout.

This deserves more credit 😂😂