If someone makes the multi-playlist, I will swap out the embed code

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVS-Fba0ExU
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-JPZOI8hbc
Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_0zb02wORc
Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJNNG4o0d1A

Appalling.

I'm not religious and I don't believe in hell, but I hope that it exists in some form for people who deny their own humanity and cause needless harm.

hmm, methinks I'll NOT be trusting the shadowed relative/whoever's version of events... Why are half of VS videos some type of "police conspiracy"? Are you people really that gullible?

BillO, Come on just watch the whole thing. You don't have to take anyones word for it, but the cops long, involved testimony (that is supposed to explain 28 seconds).

There is no conspiracy here, you can see the witness testimony and even the cops' explanation here. Not much of a leap when the cops say they walked up on a bloody burnt guy in shock and then taser him three times then shoot him. They say they saw burnt skin hanging off his body.

BillO just likes to be argumentative. His chosen name is BillO.

"Why are half of VS videos some type of "police conspiracy"? Are you people really that gullible?"

It's high time for you to have a little unexpected run-in with an officer of the law.

This taser shit has gone crazy.

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They said he was growling – maybe he was groaning in pain.

They said he was showing his teeth – yes people sometimes show their teeth and even look like they are smiling when they are in the grip of incomprehensible pain.

Listen to their long, stupid, complicated story that supposedly happened in 28 seconds, a story that is contradictory to other eye-witness reports.

I have friends who are cops – take it or leave it – some of those guys are damn good men, but some of those bastards should not be wearing a badge. They have IQs of about 98 and an authority fetish that is bordering psychopathy. The only reason assholes like that stay on the force is because police pay and benefits are usually so crappy that they can’t afford to lose the manpower because nobody else in his right mind is going to put his life on the line for $12 to $15 dollars an hour.

In fact, if you watch the first segment, they must have shot the guy in less than 28 seconds.

My guess is the second idiot cop arrived at the scene and decided to taser the sitting victim without finding out what the fuck was going on.

After that, it was a "you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours" situation.

Police state. In the Christopher Commision Report after Rodney King and Rampart, they found that officers view the community as being an obstacle in the way of them doing their job. America is in trouble.

from what i've experienced cops do slightly more harm than good (and i've never committed a crime). riot police at festivals beating women and kids down, and the police letting the person that mugged me know where i live , to name but a few. their existence probably acts as a deterrent but i reckon there must be a better way

What a disgustingly biased and deceitful (not to mention unbelievably annoyingly edited) video this is. I trust this woman's story about as much as the local street corner raving lunatic. Check out her only other lovely video by the way, which is of soldier effigy burning as a means of war protest (and wherein the comments of said video she blithely declares her belief that all US soldiers are "baby raping pigs"). There is vastly more to this story than this nutty woman is letting on. http://www.sandypost.com/news/story.php?story_id=115654635282841200 (of course this is a story written by the "corporate owned media apologists" according to this woman so we shouldn't trust it at all. (never mind that no reason or evidence is given for the belief that the local reporting on the story is somehow inherently in corrupt collusion with a supposedly criminal police department) The officer who shot him is obviously a trigger happy incompetent pussy who should be punished for using lethal force in a situation which did not require it, but that said, the whole weird scenario appears to be a borderline/near suicide by cop incident, however bizarre.

very dubious video, but anyway i read the "corporate media" and didn't see anything there which suggests this man needed to be shot...
It seems they shot him to prevent him getting to a shotgun that THEY had left lying around. Another example of how great it is that the police are armed and dangerous.

"(never mind that no reason or evidence is given for the belief that the local reporting on the story is somehow inherently in corrupt collusion with a supposedly criminal police department)"

...yeah...for disputed reasons a 27 year old man crashes a car, strips off his clothing, sits on a curb "Indian Style", and is shot dead within 28 seconds of his first encounter with one of the officers.

RE: Local Reporting - that would be the asshole who was laughing about "naked boy" and where they could find "naked boy" because it was going to be a great story.

I hope you realize that the "free press" and the dignity of law enforcement are fairy tales.

America, in many ways, has become a totalitarian state: i.e. the totality of the system trumps the truth of the day.

These two are monsters. I hope that their friends and families see this and remind them of this for the rest of their disgusting lives.

How many taser attempts could have been made in 28 seconds?

Are the Max Headroom edits necessary? This is BS.

What could possibly been the urgency in getting this poor man, desperately in need of first aid, to move away from where he was? The cops obviously felt threatened by the something about the situation from the start.

In my community some years ago there was an incident in which the police shot to death a naked unarmed man. I'm wondering about the possibility of an identifiable 'phobia'. These guys said that they were afraid because of the blood but could it have been because of the nakedness?

We expect a lot from cops, probably way too much. These two are obviously not good material for rational thinking in a pinch.

What a truly tragic story.

*long

Invocations (long) cannot be called by nibiyabi because nibiyabi is not privileged - sorry.

So you're a cop and you meet up with a badly burned man. Do you:

a) Fucking get him some medical attention.
b) Torture and kill him.

Hell, just kill him. You won't get in trouble anyway. You're a cop, remember?