{"id":196287,"date":"2008-05-10T16:48:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-10T21:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/10\/dude-were-in-a-hurry-taze-that-octogenarian-on-the-gurney\/"},"modified":"2008-05-10T16:48:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-10T21:48:00","slug":"dude-were-in-a-hurry-taze-that-octogenarian-on-the-gurney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/10\/dude-were-in-a-hurry-taze-that-octogenarian-on-the-gurney\/","title":{"rendered":"Dude, We&#8217;re In a Hurry, Taze that Octogenarian on the Gurney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that a man in hospital in Kamloops, B.C., one Frank Lasser, age 82, was disoriented while being treated for pneumonia and and pulled a pocket knife from his pocket.  The Mounties were summoned, and they promptly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/british-columbia\/story\/2008\/05\/08\/bc-kamloops-man-taser.html\">tazed him three times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>&#8220;I was laying on the bed by then and the corporal came in, or the sergeant, I forget which it was, and said to the guys, &#8216;OK, get him because we got more important work to do on the street tonight,'&#8221; Lasser said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They  tazed him because they had a crowded schedule.<\/p>\n<p>Un-dirtyword-believable.<\/p>\n<p>Tazers are being abused, and they need to be explicitly classified as lethal weapons under the law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that a man in hospital in Kamloops, B.C., one Frank Lasser, age 82, was disoriented while being treated for pneumonia and and pulled a pocket knife from his pocket. The Mounties were summoned, and they promptly tazed him three times. &#8220;I was laying on the bed by then and the corporal came in, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1041],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-enforcement-misconduct"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}