Cops kill 21 year old with a taser, then attempt to lie about it

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WINNFIELD, La. — At 1:28 p.m. last Jan. 17, Baron "Scooter" Pikes was a healthy 21-year-old man. By 2:07 p.m., he was dead.

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The official police version of what happened to Pikes on that brisk January afternoon reads like a sad but familiar story in Winnfield's local newspaper.

Nugent spotted Pikes walking along the street and attempted to arrest him on an outstanding warrant for drug possession, according to Police Chief Johnny Ray Carpenter. Pikes took off running, but another officer cornered him outside a nearby grocery store. Pikes resisted arrest and Nugent subdued him with a shock from a Taser.

Then on the way to the police station, Carpenter told the newspaper, Pikes fell ill and told the officers he suffered from asthma and was high on crack cocaine and PCP. The officers called for an ambulance, but Pikes later died at the hospital.

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But there is already abundant evidence contradicting the official police version of the incident.

An autopsy determined there were no drugs in Pikes' system and that he did not have asthma, according to Dr. Randolph Williams, the Winn Parish coroner.

Moreover, Pikes did not resist arrest, and he was handcuffed while lying on the ground, according to Nugent's police report of the incident. It was only after Pikes refused Nugent's command to stand up that the officer applied the first Taser shock in the middle of his back, Nugent wrote.

Several more Taser shocks followed quickly, Nugent stated, because Pikes kept falling down and refusing to get back up. Grocery shoppers who witnessed the incident later told Pikes' family that he had pleaded with Nugent: "Please, you all got me. Please don't Tase me again."

Williams said police records showed Nugent administered nine Taser shocks to Pikes over a 14-minute period. The last two jolts, delivered as police pulled Pikes from a patrol car at the police station, elicited no reaction because the suspect was unconscious, Williams said.

After consulting about the case with Dr. Michael Baden, a nationally prominent forensic pathologist, Williams ruled last month that Pikes' death was a homicide. On the death certificate, he listed the cause of death as "cardiac arrest following nine 50,000-volt electroshock applications from a conductive electrical weapon."

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-tas...0,2201847.story

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[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

It sounds like (hopefully) they haven't gotten away with it.

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It sounds like (hopefully) they haven't gotten away with it.

I ordinarily don't care for the death penalty, but those moral qualms apply to humans, not pigs.

[Sassy1natl 0]

Be sure you watch it to the end. The student is pinned to he ground by at least 5 officers, yet they still tazed him.

Edited July 21, 2008 by sassy1natl

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Sassy,

I fixed your YouTube tag.

Be sure you watch it to the end. The student is pinned to he ground by at least 5 officers, yet they still tazed him.

[Sassy1natl 0]

Thank you. I dunno what happened.

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Sassy,

This is what you typed:

[YouTube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bVa6jn4rpE[/YouTube]

This is what you should have typed:

[YouTube]6bVa6jn4rpE[/YouTube]

[Sassy1natl 0]

Gracias.

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I fixed your YouTube tag.

Be sure you watch it to the end. The student is pinned to he ground by at least 5 officers, yet they still tazed him.

It still didn't shut his ####### up either.

[Sassy1natl 0]

I didn't realize that the purpose of a Tazer was to "shut people up"...hmmm

[Ban Hammer 14,586]

always the white man

I didn't realize that the purpose of a Tazer was to "shut people up"...hmmm

works on in-laws too

[Sassy1natl 0]

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

Cops lie... what a shock.

[Sassy1natl 0]

Cops lie... what a shock.

Shock...you made a funny.