This happened right down the street from my house.
I went to school with him.
I even spoke to him a few times.
Everybody who knew him said he was a really good kid.
Keep spreading this.
FUCK FLORIDA
Why?
Did they just keep zapping until his pulse stop? Do you know how PAINFUL tasers are?
They painfully murdered this art student for painting on a wall.
Fuck the police
Godammit, everything is giving people from Florida a bad rep.
FUCK.Now, hold on now, you make it seem as if the cops were frying him for five minutes until his hair started to smoke. If the poor guy had a weak heart, it would only take five seconds for a taser to stop it. Then again, if you don’t want to get tazed, DON’T FUCKING RUN AWAY!! All these people who get killed by cops (who don’t end up being some crazed psycho killer) were running away when they got shot/tazed. It’s hard to feel bad for the “innocent” when usually only “guilty” people run. Just saying.
When confronted people tend to flee, or fight. He fled. Yes, graffiti is illegal and in running he resisted arrest, but that doesn’t excuse the police from the effects of their actions. Tasers are high voltage low ampere current devices, they’re not designed to be lethal. One shock would have been enough to incapacitate more likely than not, and if one shock shut down his heart because it was weak then the police being public servants should have tried to revive him. Due to the wording of the headline however, it’s difficult to assume that they did anything but chase down a kid for performing his trade on an abandoned building and tasered him until he died. No mercy, no attempt to help him.
literally disarm and abolish the pigs