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Shocking! When Ministers Attack – Taser Used in Church Brawl

Warren Ballentine — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 15:55:41 +0000

You know times are tough when ministers have it out for other ministers.

Singer and Minister of Music, Simone Moore (pictured), allegedly used a Taser on a pastor who just fired him, which set off a terrible confrontation. It ended up with a deacon stabbing the Moore’s mother.

It all went down a week ago at New Welcome Baptist Church in Alabama after Rev. Darryl Riley told Moore that he had to get gone and was released with his final paycheck.

Not so fast. Moore disputed the amount of the check and whipped out his Taser gun and did his thing.

When several church members rushed in to attempt to diffuse the issue, a deacon pulled out a knife and stabbed the music minister’s mother, Agolia Moore.

“I said, ‘Oh my God, he done cut me,” Agolia Moore told Local 15 News. Moore, who suffered a gash on her arm that required 19 stitches, claimed church leaders ganged up on her son when he was fired. “They owed him,” Agolia said. “He asked them for his money. That was the big thing right there, wasn’t no more or no less.”

Simone Moore eventually surrendered to authorities days later and was charged with third-degree assault. Rev. Riley was struck twice on the arm with the gun’s sting and bashed on the head with the moneybox, receiving to cuts that required 32 stitches.

“The deacons and myself said we were not going to pay him because this Sunday was supposed to be his last,” Riley told the Press-Register. “At that point, he pointed the Taser at me.”

Simone Moore said he was preparing to quit and was carrying a Taser because he “didn’t trust the situation.” He claimed the church owed him $600 more. Source: EURWeb.com

Shocking! Campus Police Kill Black Student With Taser

Newstalk1490 — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 13:57:53 +0000

CINCINNATI — Everette Howard, a student from Cincinnati was killed at the University Of Cincinati by campus police who used a taser on him after a confrontation. WLWT Cincinnati reports: Everette Howard, 18, died early Saturday morning. Friends said Howard was trying to break up a fight in front of Turner Hall when campus police responded. Police said Howard ap... Read more..

Disturbing! Police Beat, Tase Homeless Man To Death On Video

Newstalk1490 — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:15:13 +0000

FULLERTON, Calif — Fullerton Police officers tased and beat Kelly Thomas, a mentally unstable homeless man to death in an incident that was caught on video.

KABC reports:

“They kept beating him and Tasering him. I could hear zapping, and he wasn’t even moving,” said Turgeon. “He had one arm in front of him like this, he wasn’t resisting. And they kept telling him, ‘He’s resisting, quit resisting,’ and he wasn’t resisting.”

Police say they won’t talk about what force was used since it’s under investigation, but they say at least six officers were involved and two officers suffered broken bones in the fight.

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Alabama Cops Brutally Beat Surrendering Black Man

NY Man Laughs Off Taser Jolt While Battling Rochester Police

News Talk 216 — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:50:34 +0000

A 24-year-old man who accused of attacking two Rochester police officers Wednesday laughed when one of the officers used a Taser to try to arrest him, according to court documents.

Even pepper spray did not completely subdue Paul J. Sutton, but it slowed him enough so that officers could finally take him into custody.

Sutton, described as at least 6 feet tall, 280 pounds and muscular, is scheduled to be arraigned in City Court on Monday. He is charged with second-degree assault and resisting arrest.

Officer Michael Decocq, an 18-year veteran, suffered a concussion and a broken clavicle when he was thrown to the ground. Officer Barry Herbin, a 17-year veteran, suffered a sprained ankle. Both men were treated at Strong Memorial Hospital and released.

Sutton was at Boehm Lodge for a meeting with Jason M. Parsons, a mental health counselor. Sutton was agitated and had been vulgar with staff members, according to Parsons’ police statement. Parsons suggested to Sutton that he should go to a hospital emergency room for an evaluation, and “he responded by clenching his fists and grinding his teeth.”

“He said he was happy and he gave me an odd grin. I sensed that he was in a psychotic state,” Parsons said in his statement.

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Article courtesy azcentral.com

Police Kill Teen On Bike In Drive By Tasering

Newstalk1490 — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:59:39 +0000

From North West Florida Daily News

The Pensacola Police Department will review its rules on the use of Tasers in the wake of a fatal chase in which an officer fired a stun gun from his moving car.

“There is not an exact prohibition from that in the policy,” Police Chief John Mathis said. “Any … time that we are involved in something, everything will come under review. It does not say that you will not fire from a moving vehicle.”

Officer Jerald Ard fired his Taser as he chased a man who was fleeing on a bicycle Saturday morning in Brownsville.
The unidentified man fell off the bike. The car Ard was driving then ran over the man, Pensacola police said.