Anti Federalist
12-03-2010, 01:04 AM
File under: "We had to kill him to keep him safe"
Waco man dead after wreck and being hit by police taser
http://www.kxxv.com/Global/story.asp?S=13580933
Posted: Nov 29, 2010 10:46 AM EST
WACO - A Waco man is dead after being stunned by a police taser following a car accident.
36-year-old Rodney Green died Thanksgiving Day (November 25th), but police are only now releasing the information.
On November 25th at 6:33 p.m., officers responded to a fail to stop and identify accident when a vehicle struck a pole at South 12th & Bagby. A second call was received indicating that a black male wearing a green shirt was walking around near the accident, and acting strange or possibly that something was wrong with him.
The first officer arrived and encountered Green and began trying to identify him as well as asking questions of him.
"He was not responding to her in a normal way and was not answering her questions. Whenever she noticed him she immediately called for an assisting officer to come out with her," said Sargent Melvin Roseborough with the Waco Police Department.
When the second officer arrived they tried talking to Green again but he was acting strangely and still continued to try to walk out into oncoming traffic. That's when officers say they had to fire a taser at him.
"Since he was trying to walk out into traffic the officers were afraid for his safety, as well as their own," said Roseborough.
A third officer arrived on scene to help get Green under control. The officer was able to place leg restraints on him, but he broke them into separate pieces. Police were finally able to bring him under control, and one officer noticed that the subject was no longer responding to them verbally or physically.
The officers immediately requested paramedics and tried to revive him until the paramedics arrived. Green was transported to a Hillcrest Hospital and arrived in critical and unstable condition. Emergency room staff continued perform life saving measures until he was pronounced dead at 10:24 p.m.
Judge DeCluitt ordered an autopsy and he was transported to South West Institute of Forensic Sciences in Dallas.
The Waco Police Department is investigating the entire situation and Sargent Roseborough says they're waiting for the autopsy results to come in to help them figure out exactly what may have caused the death.
"Was there an underlying medical condition, was there something in his system? What actually caused this individual to pass on us?"
All of the officers involved have been put on administrative leave with pay while the investigation is pending.
Waco man dead after wreck and being hit by police taser
http://www.kxxv.com/Global/story.asp?S=13580933
Posted: Nov 29, 2010 10:46 AM EST
WACO - A Waco man is dead after being stunned by a police taser following a car accident.
36-year-old Rodney Green died Thanksgiving Day (November 25th), but police are only now releasing the information.
On November 25th at 6:33 p.m., officers responded to a fail to stop and identify accident when a vehicle struck a pole at South 12th & Bagby. A second call was received indicating that a black male wearing a green shirt was walking around near the accident, and acting strange or possibly that something was wrong with him.
The first officer arrived and encountered Green and began trying to identify him as well as asking questions of him.
"He was not responding to her in a normal way and was not answering her questions. Whenever she noticed him she immediately called for an assisting officer to come out with her," said Sargent Melvin Roseborough with the Waco Police Department.
When the second officer arrived they tried talking to Green again but he was acting strangely and still continued to try to walk out into oncoming traffic. That's when officers say they had to fire a taser at him.
"Since he was trying to walk out into traffic the officers were afraid for his safety, as well as their own," said Roseborough.
A third officer arrived on scene to help get Green under control. The officer was able to place leg restraints on him, but he broke them into separate pieces. Police were finally able to bring him under control, and one officer noticed that the subject was no longer responding to them verbally or physically.
The officers immediately requested paramedics and tried to revive him until the paramedics arrived. Green was transported to a Hillcrest Hospital and arrived in critical and unstable condition. Emergency room staff continued perform life saving measures until he was pronounced dead at 10:24 p.m.
Judge DeCluitt ordered an autopsy and he was transported to South West Institute of Forensic Sciences in Dallas.
The Waco Police Department is investigating the entire situation and Sargent Roseborough says they're waiting for the autopsy results to come in to help them figure out exactly what may have caused the death.
"Was there an underlying medical condition, was there something in his system? What actually caused this individual to pass on us?"
All of the officers involved have been put on administrative leave with pay while the investigation is pending.