KPMH 26 news: Merced Police Use Taser on Wheelchair-Bound, Legless Man (California)

[Heidi]

Posted: Sep 22, 2009 07:44 AM

At the apartment complex on the 2300 block of K Street in Merced, neighbors are still reeling from what happened there the afternoon of September 11th.

"I heard screaming, kicking, yelling," Jason Navarro said.

Navarro lives next door to 40-year-old Greg Williams.

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About a dozen neighbors gathered as police and Child Protective Services responded to a domestic disturbance between Williams and his wife.

Police reported that Williams, who had both of his legs amputated six years ago, was resisting.

So they tased him.

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"You can't say anything to explain that. It's just hard. How can you tase somebody in a wheelchair with no legs? What's he gonna do to you?" Manual Martinez said.

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[Liberal_in_LA]

1. DA not filing charges against Williams, that's telling..

[NutmegYankee]

2. Simple! You can't justify it.

Somebodies in trouble, news at 11!

[kristopher]

3. Not to be insensitive, but who was kicking??

I really hope Jim Webb's review of the criminal justice system starts to turn this insanity around. We have a basic flaw in our perception of the role of law enforcement...

[Oeditpus Rex]

4. Much more here:

http://www.mercedsunstar.com/167/story/1068479.html

This is ugly. This is really ugly.

[Heidi]

5. Thanks, Oedi.

And I agree: very, very ugly.

[XanaDUer]

6. Okay, let me be the first

AT LEAST THEY DIDN'T SHOOT HIM!

[BadgerKid]

7. I smell torture,

by my reading in between the lines. I imagine Williams wasn't talking, so the cop tasered him.

[Fumesucker]

8. In defense of the police..

He does have both arms.

[Bluenorthwest]

9. the MPD is corrupt

Among the worst in the nation.

[Echo In Light]

10. Sadist goons and their police state toys. Big fun!