July 26, 2008

Police use "Pre-Trial Electrocution" to knock suicidal black man off of a bridge.

By African American Political Pundit:

The police extra-judicial death penalty attempt (hopefully) failed.

Black Man Tased on Bridge.
Check out the Video of the black man and would-be suicidal jumper, brought down by pre trial police elerctrocution because he (the victim) was suicidal.

It was another case of police attempted murder of yet another black man. Police estimate the pre-trial victim of police electrocution fell about 15 feet onto a concrete embankment beside I-70, landing on his right side after the 1½-hour standoff. Family members on the scene were distraught. They blamed the police department for preventing them to speak with McDuffy while he was on the bridge. His daughter felt he would have gotten off the bridge safely if she had the chance to speak to him. More HERE

Phillip McDuffy, 45, suffered two broken arms, a fractured skull and possibly a broken jaw in the fall, Columbia police Capt. Zim Schwartze said yesterday.

Don't be sucidal in America black man, before you jump off the bridge, police may use "Pre-Trial Electrocution" to kill yah!



Police responded to reports of 45-year-old Phillip McDuffy attempting to jump off the pedestrian walk overpass near Providence Road.
Police responded to reports of 45-year-old Phillip McDuffy attempting to jump off the pedestrian walk overpass near Providence Road.
The pedestrian overpass is more than 15 feet above the highway.
The pedestrian overpass is more than 15 feet above the highway.
McDuffy sat on the top of the overpass located over the westbound lanes of I-70.
McDuffy sat on the top of the overpass located over the westbound lanes of I-70.


Get this folks as reported by komu.com -

Columbia Police say a Taser "played a role" in how a man fell from a bridge while he threatened to jump.

Tasered While Black: WTF, played a role?

Get this, komu.com also reports,

The department says the suicidal man, 45-year-old Phillip Lee McDuffy of Columbia, was threatening to jump from the Providence Road pedestrian overpass. After an hour and a half of negotiations, McDuffy moved towards the south side of the bridge away from I-70. Officers deployed a Taser when he was in a spot on the bridge that would prevent injury if he fell.

Captain Zim Schwartze says that deployment did not work.

Tasered While Black: Here comes the cover up!

komu.com: McDuffy moved quickly over the highway when the Taser was deployed a second time. By that time, he had moved away from a secure area and fell onto the concrete. He was taken to the hospital. McDuffy suffered two broken arms, an orbital fracture (eye socket) and a possible jaw fracture.

Tasered While Black: komu.com needs to rewind the tape and start reporting the facts. The Cover up has begun. The Columbia Police Department released an extensive news release explaining its position on what happened and why officers decided to deploy the Taser. A downloadable version is available by clicking on the link. Source: komu.com. Columbia Police Department Statement (pdf)

11 comments:

" G.G. " Xakan said...

Hey bro.

I see that you're still on top of the white-boys-in-blue, newest form of "entertainment."

SICKENING!

To them, their job IS like a deer hunting expedition.

Please, keep up the good work. It's a shame that so much of this is happening that you, and brothers like AAPP can target so much of your energy towards this topic. But the cowards in blue must be held accountable, and knowing that people are watching their swine-like behavior helps.

George M

Francis Holland said...

Thanks, George. When torture and extrajudcial executions are going on under the color of law, it's got to be exposed, even if it takes painstaking documentation to remind us all how prevalent it is. Thankfully, even as the local media is careful to tell the local police's bullshit side of the story, yet they are documenting the atrocities with film footage, which ultimately helps us build a movement against it.

plez... said...

he was suicidal and the police prevented him from killing himself by getting splattered all over I-70 (and dude came away with a few broken bones)... i'd say, "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!"

next story...

Francis Holland said...

That's really fucked up, Plez. You must be kidding in a graveyard humor sort of way or you wouldn't have taken the time to express an opinion about it.

Admit it. This situation moves you. Otherwise, the better alternative would have just been to shoot the suicidal man and put him of his misery ( and do the same thing with all suicidal jumper situations), both because it would save on charity care at the hospital and it would serve as a deterrent for other people intending to pretend(?)/experiment to want to commit suicide on overpasses.

If society wanted to be as blithely callous as you suggest, the policy would simply be to shoot suicidal people on sight. Again, that would save society a lot of money because tasers and taser charges are very exensive, while bullets are very cheap.

plez... said...

francis,
...alittle graveyard humor never hurt anyone did it?!?

but on a more serious note, why is what i wrote so F*CKED up?!? how is what i wrote so much more F*CKED up than what you wrote?

you have a suicidal man, who's family told the police that he may be armed with a gun, threatening to kill himself over an interstate overpass. i see no excess in trying to subdue the guy with a non-lethal taser shot. by looking at the news video, had the first one stuck, he would've been subdued in a safe area... it was only after he ran towards the overpass and was tased again, did he fall, resulting in injury. and you label this a "pre-trial electrocution"? this guy was a danger to himself and the public.

as i said in my response, the dude isn't dead... right? the public was not injured... right? no police officers were injured... right? to my way of thinking... MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!

now, let me ask you, why do you use such a provacative and sensational headline to your story: "Police use 'Pre-Trial Electrocution..." as if they had tried & convicted him for some capital offense?!?

Your sarcastic title led to my sarcastic response!

Your over-the-top heading fed my over-the-top conclusion!

WOW, francis, that was easy! *smile*

p...

Francis Holland said...

Plez, this man was a member of the public and so the public was harmed.

My title was not sarcastic, but was factual. The police electrocuted this man, before he had any trial on the facts involved, and then he fell off a bridge, even though regulations say not to electrocute a man if it might cause him to have a fall that would be injurious to him.

It's clear to me based on your response that you just don't have any compassion for this man as a human being, and so it's alright for the police to treat him worse than they would treat a dog under the same circumstances. In your lack of compassion, you show a similarity, unfortunately, to the police and the society that allow this to occur day after day.

And your lack of compassion is, perhaps, somewhat understandable because it is based on your acceptance of a very common storyline that police ALWAYS offer when they try try to kill a Black man. "Who knows? He could have had a gun!" And so they justify killing ANY Black at any time.

If you or I engaged in the same behavior as these police did, we would rightfully be charged with attempted murder, and the charge would be increased to murder if the man died.

Well doesn't it seem strange to you that, when contacted by the police, a family would offer sua sponte that their family member might be armed (without knowing), even though saying this would likely end in the family member's death.

In all likelihood, the "fact" that the family said he might be armed was either an outright lie that the police supplied to the media (the media didn't say they independently confirmed it), or it resulted from the police asking a question to the family like, "Has he ever had a gun?" "OK, then he MIGHT be armed."

In fact, the police had a chance to observe this man over a number of minutes and when he was tased he did not respond by trying to shoot the police (a normal response for someone who is armed and thinking of using a gun), but responded by running (a typical response for someone who is unarmed and has no intention, in any case, of shooting at police).

Well, remember this, bro. Anytime you are driving down the highway minding your own business, you "might be armed" and so the police, according to your reasoning, have every right to kill you even if their own observation doesn't provide any reason to believe that you actually ARE armed, and even if you are not making any threatening moves toward police.

Have police do unto others as you would have police do unto you.

plez... said...

francis,

come over to plezWorld and see my reaction to a Black man who was Tased to death! the incident in Louisiana was outrageous... at least this brother is still alive!

i love it when somebody feigns to tell ME how i should feel about a certain situation!

what's even stranger to me is the fact that the police officer responsible for this man's death is being indicted for murder, AND you don't have any mention of it on your blog! yet, you've gotten your panties in a WAD over some dude who is alive and kicking!

terrell ali bey said...

WHAT PEOPLE KNOW IS REAL WHAT PEOPLE FEEL IS WHY TRUTH IS ONLY A DERIVITIVE OF REALITY.the albion news reporters asked the question.the police broke policy an if one knows how to read faces her [POLICE] ass knows she is lying.blue is the color of deception like when you look up in sky an it seems to have no end.watch a space ship dissapear into it then you know there is an end.WE cannot see the dark in the daytime but its behind the light.it was there first,then came light.the thinking mind is only an opinion,opinions are like assholes an everybodys got one,their is one reality mathematically,metaphysically,WE ARE RULED BY OTHERS OPINIONS OF US AN ITS OUR OPINIONS OF OURSELVES THAT DESTROY US CAUSE WE DONT KNOW,people want to know what do you MATHEMATICALLY FACTUALLY KNOW that we dont.mentally ill people are not criminals,mentally ill albion woman is treated like a human an talked down no matter how long it takes.no one "thinks"to treat her like an animal.only an animal is shot when unarmed,like a hunt.steve coakley taught us about the hunt an how its considered a hunt WHEN WE ARE INVOLVED.HOW PEOPLE FEEL IS INFLAMMATORY CAUSE THEY ARGUE ON PLATFORMS THAT LACK KNOWLEDGE WHICH IS WHY AN ARGUMENT COMES ABOUT ,ARGUE ABOUT 2+2 EQUALING 4,THERE IS ONE ANSWER.IT DIDNT HELP MCDUFFIE TO BOUNCE LIKE A BALL.IF HE HAD A GUN THEY WOULD HAVE SHOT HIM.SUICIDAL ALBION PEOPLE DIDNT GET TASED BUT IT SAVED HIS LIFE BECAUSE..... ,WHY CAUSE HE WAS ACTING BELOW HUMAN OR COLOR IDEATED BELOW HUMAN TO BE SHOT DOWN LIKE A DOG.I BEEN SHOT, I KNOW ID RATHER A BULLET HIT ME IN ONE PART OF MY BODY THAN ELECTRICITY THROUGHOUT.IF M NOT ARMED I SHOULD NOT BE SHOT OR TASED.THAT TASER STOPS YOUR HEART ON CONTACT AN THEN YOUR HEART HAS TO START ITSELF AGAIN AFTER BEING KNOCKED OFF RHYTHM.THE BULLET COMES ONE AT A TIME ,ELECTRICITY COMES LIKE THE SPEED OF LIGHT.TACTICS FOR CRIMINALS ARE ONLY APPLIED TO COLOR OF LAW BLACK PEOPLE AS WE SEE HE WAS TAKEN DOWN LIKE A RUNAWAY PIG OR COW FROM A FARM.BUT IT WAS OK.ALL INJUSTICE IS EQUALLY PERTINENT WHETHER WE GET KILLED OR NOT.KRS GOT A RECORD CALLED BLACK COP US AN THEM BLACK COP.THEY ARE THE WORSE COPS AN HAVE OPINIONS LIKE THEY WOULD HAVE DONE THE SAME.THATS HOW THEY AE TRAINED ,MILITARY TOO.TAE EM DOWN BY ANY MEANS ,RIGHT IS MIGHT WHOEVER WHATEVER.THATS WHY BLACK MASONRY ARE THE GUARDIAN ANGLES FOR ILLUMINATI.THEY MAINTAIN THE OPINIONS AN POLICYS AN STATUTES THAT ARE ILLEGALLY ENFORCED UPON THE AGREEING PUBLIC EVERY DAY.PEOPLE WHO DONT KNOW WHAT LAW IS DEFEND THE STATUTEs POLICYS AN STRAWMAN NIGGER INDUSTRY SLAVERY PROTOCOLS AN CODES THAT THEY HIRE OUR OWN TO ENFORCE ON US. proclamation is not a law so when did we get emancipated,it was made law by the ratification of the 13th amendment which is not a law itself ,nothing is sovereign law after 12 we wrote an they stole.they can only do that to a slave that is chattel property not a human.

terrell ali bey said...

in court when someone asks our a dress we open our arms an spin around spin around an tell them we not wearing one.your zip code is your postal zone ,you only need last two numbers,the rest is for jusidiction to euro union states.your address is your corrospondance ofor CO ,thats it, adress puts you in the jurisdiction of the union states of europe who tase all of us.THE ADRESS ,ZIP CODE .S.S CARD ARE INSTRUMENTS OF COMMERCE GENERATION THATS SUCKED OUT FROM THE INDIGINOUS NATIONS OF THE ABORIGINAL MOORS OF THE AMERICAS WHICH IS NORTH SOUTH CENTRAL A THE CARRIBEAN ALL RENAMED TO NATION STATES.

terrell ali bey said...

ANY COP BLACK OR WHITE WOULD HAVE TO FOLLOW ORDERS OF THE COMMANDER AN TASE THE MAN,BLACK COPS WOULD BE GOOD TO COMMENT ON THIS ACTION BECAUSE THEY ARE THE ONLY ONES WHO WOULD BE THE SAME AS MCDUFFIE AN WOULD BE ORDERED TO TASE HIM.ALBION COPS RIDE AROUNS HARLEM WITH BABYS HEAD SUCK OR IMPALED IN THE TOP OF THE ANTANNAE OF THE CAR.A MAN COMPLAINS ,AN THEN HES ARRESTED THE NEXT DAY ALONG WITH HIIS MOTHER IN PROTEST CAUSE IT WAS RETALIATION.THEY WERE GONNA TASE HIM TOO

terrell ali bey said...

WAR,,,,,,SLIPPING INTO DARKNESS,,SONG OF THE DAY