I am guessng he won't need the lottery to become a millionaire...

Bingo !!!

But seriously....I wonder what the Law Officers defense will be on this one.

I hope he gets a really good lawyer so these idiot cops can't get a job in law enforcement anywhere.

Exactly. Also a reminder to be careful what you wish for. You never know what avenue it will take to get to you... ah, I could tell you stories...

I'd gladly take a beating by the CA infamous cops for some scars and  a million bucks after a lawsuit!

I was in the shower at the pool when vandals destroyed the ceiling. I was taken naked to jail for the crime and later released. Naked in jail, what an experience. Nobody appologized to me. I was completely innocent. I was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Wish I could have gotten a million.Would have changed my life. Instead, I have the memory.

Did you consult an attorney?

It has become almost routine for some law enforcement agency to beat up on someone here in Maryland. But I haven't heard of anyone getting compensated for the beating. An apology maybe.

Correct me if I'm wrong, Fou4Me....

Last year, Santa Paula agreed to pay $250,000 in a lawsuit by a man who claimed he suffered a serious back injury when he was taken to the ground and shocked twice in 2006.

http://www.latimes.com/sns-ap-us-odd-taser-lawsuit-award,0,435997.story

I think he was awarded $1 Million.

"Several officers surrounded him on the ground" <snip> so tough lol. Takes several men to take down 1 guy, so much for training.  Next stop....after a nice beat down to:

ouch.

Prime example why I dont take showers in public places if I can help it. And when I do, they are fast.

Like Thrust says, did you consult an attorney?

It is good to know that the San Jose Police Department is training their police officers to kick people in the face!  After all, it is always good 'surprise strategy' to do this.  Another benefit is that putting a blacked out/unconscious suspect person (rather than a conscious person) into a squad car is a superior on-the-job-workout.  Plus, the tax paying citizens haven't refused to pay for any blood removal cleanings thus far.

What a nightmare.  I would probably have received a heart attack if I saw someone running at me with an extended gun!  I think that the tax paying citizens in San Jose can be very pleased with the psychological make-up of people who they are paying to be employed as San Jose Police Department officers.  What happened to "peace maker/police officer"? 

Who will be paying [I say dock the police/law enforcement officer with the irritable foot] for the stitches and the psychological aids that this shocked person will now have to pursue?

I am truly shocked at the remarks here! My goodness these are civil servants, Here to protect us folks from crime! So often PRAISE and GLORY goes out to them ...and now they are being downcasted????Think of how brave they had to be to have loaded guns and tasers in hand to approach this innocent man who had no weapon at all! . WHat fear must have been under the surface for them! ANy Good lawyer will defend these officers as Protecting the community!

Okay with that ludricous statement from above out of the way  Lets get real folks:, who here really thinks that justice ever is served when a public servant uses their job duties as a defense. I still cant get over the Rodney King incident....Truly far too many extra priveldges are given officers ...being above the law ..and lets not even say how often we the public jsut turn the other way when such happen's occur.....

Jeffrey- call me a doubting thomas...just find that story hard to swallow ....

Correct me if I'm wrong, Fou4Me

All depends on who you are the guy that got beat up after a basketball game was some big shots son so they will file a law suit.

Us peons would be lucky if we weren't killed instead of beat up by the cops in the city. Especially with their shoot first answer questions later stance they have adopted.

We just had a cop here shoot a man to death in an ally behind a bar a few weeks ago the cop said he assaulted his woman in the bar... the guy who got shot was a two tour Iraq marine vet... witnesses said he had his hands up when the cop unloaded his gun.... the cop is now indited for murder.

Some cops are good a lot of them are scared to death, carry a gun because it's their only defense mechanism.

Ha Ha Ha, it occurred at NMIMT in 1987. New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. I was a Dean's list student with a 4.0 GPA in Physics, Mathematics, and minors in Engineer and Astrophysics. I worked as a computer programmer in the lab and I was at the campus pool. Many details, hard to make up eh. Doubting Thomas? I have also been cuffed and stuffed for bank robbery later released. I looked like the general description and drove a similar car. While transporting scientists from Alb. NM to Socorro, NM I was ticketed for 1 MPH over the speed limit in 1988. (66 in a 65 zone-fine $75) Don't get me wrong, I think of cops as friends and family and during no incident have I been physically abused.

Rodney King was a criminal by the way. OJ Simpson was a hero until he murdered his ex-wife and that poor boy. Evidence planted, my aunt Fanny's butt. His fingerprint in blood was on the gate by the way.

A man was cuffed and hit his head and died in my neighborhood. Nobody was charged. He was retarded and innocent. A victim of the justice system.

I live in San Jose and the police are horrible here. I hope this guy sue them good. This was on my local news. Another reason why I want to get out of this city. The education, job, and surrounding are horrible in San Jose. San Francisco is much better.

I don't think you can compare this case with the Rodney King case. Rodney King was a common criminal, fleeing police and resisting arrest when finally caught. A lot of innocent people lost their lives in the aftermath of that idiot's actions.

The guy in this case had done nothing wrong.

okay where you folks FAIL to stand back and be realistic is that He (R King) was excessively beatn and held. I dont care if he had a record or not, it was EXCESSIVE force!!! Which part is so difficult to understand??  Somehow you are each of the  mind set that its contingent on your "education" or where you stand in the eyes of society as to whether its OKAY to beat the heck out of someone or not. SOrry No one and I mean no one is ABOVE another in life. We are equals and deserve the same rights to fairness. Enuff said. Now go get some WD 40 to open up the mind...its getting rusty.

Fourme- Sorry to hear of this incident in your town....Let me know how the indictment fairs....Not a fan of some police forces and how they practice....The family deserves justice....

I agree 100%.

What part of "Stay on the ground" did he not understand?

I cannot believe with all the innocent people murdered by people like you and the rest of his supporters going on a killing spree, that anybody would have the unmitigated gall to come out in his support.

Innocent people were dragged out of their vehicles and beaten to death in front of their families and you want to whine about a criminal being tased and having his arms and legs whacked with batons while resisting arrest?

Are you insane?

tiggs is moving as we speak to San Jose that's where all the action is..Some guys have all the luck..Some cop threatened to beat up tiggs when tiggs was 20 years old and a punk..Man did tiggs ever miss the boat..

53 innocent people brutally and viciously murdered and over 2500 shot, stabbed or beaten survivors.

And who are our libs concerned about?

The criminal who started the whole thing, as usual.

Just like when they have their candlelight vigils for murderers on Death Row.

They don't have any candlelight vigils for the victims of the murderers though.

Ever.

Now tell me who's wacked in the head?

tiggs agrees ridge but some,many,people will never see it that way..So sad..

Yeah, and he was on parole on top of it and then he gets awarded 3.8 Million Dollars and then spent it all on booze, dope and hookers.

Poor, poor Rodney. I feel so sorry for him.

well  this  case  should  be  settled  out  of  court .......he  will  get  a  large  settlement

I agree and if he doesn't settle out of court I hope he takes them to the cleaners in court.

He was an innocent man.

dang now I gotta go change my name and identity how'd you know I am a six shooter gun toten Rupublican who shows no mercy . Gosh I am shakin in my gucci boots.. Normally I am fair minded but really I dont right care for your insults, so place them in your pocket and be somewhat civil on here. Thank you !

and to be fair ..my signature really holds true here....

"...to be fair..."

To be fair? You libs always come out on the criminals side, the murderers side, the rapists side, the bad guys side, every time! To be fair?

Couldn't you just once  consider the victims of these animals you rush to defend?

Do you know the devastation placed on the families of the 53 people murdered?

Do you know the psychological damage done to 2500 innocent people shot, stabbed and beaten for no reason? Men and women? Can you imagine the nightmares of the  women and children who saw their husbands and fathers beaten to death before their eyes?

You insult the memories of those innocent victims when you defend the man who started it all and profited from it and partied on it.

You want me to be civil?

Do you deserve more civility than that received by those who have been murdered at the hands of those you defend?

Wow.

Would you agree if it was a member of your family that was viciously murdered?

You people amaze me.

Liberalism truly has to be a psychotic condition and genetic in origin.

Nobody teaches their kids to root for the bad guys when they're growing up, do they?

i agree with the fact that excessive force was used and that is all....dont drag me into all that other crap.....

I didn't drag you into anything, you posted that you agreed and it was completely voluntary. If you don't stipulate what you're agreeing to, well, we're not mind-readers. 

They used excessive force?

He refused to be cuffed and he refused to stay down.

What would you have done, just let him walk away?

Are you just a teeny bit concerned that excessive force was used by you Rodney supporters in the murder of all those innocent people?

Or are you only worried about poor little Rodney who got 3.8 million of the taxpayers money and partied it away on dope and hookers?

fugg da police

While more than often enough you can't tell the police away from the criminals, it is almost kind of incredible that some people defend criminals, I of course don't go by shoot and or beat up now and ask questions later, that of itself is criminal behavior, but people have to have something very wrong with them to defend proven criminals.

I more than completely agree with what rdgrnr has said so far on all of his posts here on this thread.

It seems to me that it is insane behavior to defend criminals and also to treat as criminals those who are innocent, police do more than often enough behave as criminals, if you behave as a criminal then you most be a criminal.

But to defend proven criminals is to patronize crime.

People should not defend police who act like criminals nor should they defend proven criminals, crime is crime no matter who does it.

But not all police act like criminals, while ALL criminals act like criminals, because that is what they are.

I know that often you can't tell who is who.

rdgrnr is right!

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I myself believe that, "The right to be armed is the right to be free!"

Ahh, another Rodney supporter... join your friends here, you're in the majority.

Thank you LANTERN.

Thanks for standing up for what's right even though it's not politically correct.

That's what a lot of these people are afraid of - not looking sympathetic enough to the plight of today's cause celebre.

It just wouldn't be cool.

You hit the lottery.  And then you get hit, and then win the lottery.  suey suey suey.  Now if he played a QP..............

Reginal Denny...Nuff said...

In somewhat related news.....

I have 19 days left in the law enforcement academy.

Because I have a full-time job, it has taken me almost one year of weekends to complete the academy.

Over half of the academy has been spent studying and understanding the U.S. Constitution and the rights of citizens.

You may now resume your bashing of law enforcement personnel.

ridge runner and tiggs wish you the best in your career..Do good it sounds like you will..