EXCLUSIVE: Bountiful City settles taser lawsuit

They had no right to taper him. He was no threat to them, if he wouldent do what they said he was trying to get an answer from them, two officers could of walked him back to his car and explained the problem. If they were threatend by that then they are not good officers. They were just looking for a reason to be tough guys. I hope they loose there job. To set an example! !!!!

That's the way most Bountful city police are, using there guns and badges to push people around and intimidate people. But if you try to ask questions they say you are getting smart mouth.

but they better step with a REAL gun and not a tazer, I don't fear any of you bastards, what comes around goes around.

f*cking dumbass. your PRECIOUS "TAX PAYING MONEY" goes straight to military and in the government's pocket. It's not his fault these bastards are crooked. F*CK THE POLICE! expecially salt lake county sheriffs. Bastards tazed me ATLEAST more than 5 times and that was because I was lost and walked up for help. I'm glad he won the case. He deserves the money. I STILL have health problems from that damned X26, and why is this? because I WAS LOST. it's not "to serve and protect" now days, it's strictly "to harrass and arrest". F*CK 'EM that's what I say. I wish those punks would come and shoot me.

I hope everyone on this site on the side of exposing those cops who are just thugs and bullies for what they are, visits and supports the website "Injustice Everywhere" http://www.injusticeeverywhere.com/ Also, please bring this website to the attention of local media and your representatives in local and national legislatures.

@Lets get real, no, the police is not there to protect us. Common mistake. It's not their responsibility, and never was, which was numerous times upheld by courts where naive citizens tried to sue police for not acting when they were beaten or robbed right before their eyes. The police is there to uphold the law. Whether that correlates with protecting us, or rather attacking us, is anybody's guess.

Hey, jus cause2, I was stopped by a cop once. I was 17 at the time and I did everything the cop told me to do, I did not say anything to him unless he asked me a question, I did not smart mouth him nor did I have any weapons on me, I was just walking home from the store. When he proceeded to frisk me he unzipped my pants, put his hand down my underwear and raked the tips of his fingers across the bottom of my testicles. Now, he was not a homosexual he just wanted me to flinch so he could club me good, you know, where he doesn't stop until he feels like he really taught me a lesson, you know, where he doesn't stop until I'm crying and he has this glow about himself, this glow of power, conquest, and superiority. You recognize the felling, right jus cause2. Well, I was to scared to flinch and when he didn't get what he wanted he kept asking me how old I was and was I sure I was 17. Why do you think he wanted to know for sure how old I was, huh, jus cause2, why? Screw you jus cause2 the police beat people because they can whether they follow orders or not!!!

Well jus cause2 Having spent my career as a police officer I hope this officer loses his job. All of this over a crocked license plate. This officer has no common scene a toll.

Sounds like jus cause is a police person or related to one. He/she does obviously not think of the role the police are supposed to play as opposed to what they DO play. They are to protect us, the taxpaying public. We need to be protected from people with a crooked license plate cover? I don't think so. The kid should have followed the police person but he is also entitled by our constitution to the reasons he is being harassed/pulled over. Police are starting to have an anxious trigger finger when it comes to pulling people over or to fighting crime. I think that each time they pull a taser out and use it, they should be put on paid leave while a PEOPLE ELECTED COMMITTEE goes over all the facets of the deployment. NOT another police force that will pretty much always put a rubber stamp on it. I have always been a law abiding person. Never been arrested but I am heavily on the side of "we the people" against bad police people now. I have watched as the majority of the people who trusted their police force now mainly despise the distrust them. I would pretty much take care of a situation myself than rely on a police person. I do not trust them and find that I am now in the majority. Sad state of the community huh? One day when the police are in dire need of support, they may realize that we do not trust them but that they are going to have to gain our trust again. It is turning into an us against them community. I have tried to get people from the media to run stories and do some research on what is really happening to our community and the "protectors" of it for a long time. It has all fallen on deaf ears.

The Police have to protect them selves and the guy was not following the commands and no doubt wanted trouble. Cops have to put up with so much crap and see no many crazy people and behaviors every night, unless you have done the work or worked with cops you have no idea what goes on out there. In the video you can't really see everything going on when the guy is on the ground but he seemed fine walking to the cop car in the end! The police departments are thought to have deep pockets and some will do anything to get money.... now us tax payers will have to pay cause this guy wouldn't follow the police officers commands.