I don't know about this case but on some schools the campus cops are real cops. At UMASS-Amherst the "Campus Cops" are academy graduated municipal police. They are actually one of the largest police forces in the state.

A rose is a rose......

I understand your point. My point is, anything you can do to subdue an individual who does not want to be subdued is potentially deadly.

Family attorney Rick Alexander said Delafield's death could have been prevented and that there are four things that jump out at him about the case.

"One, she's in a wheelchair. Two, she's schizophrenic. Three, they're using a Taser on a person that's in a wheelchair, and then four is that they tasered her 10 times for a period of like two minutes," Alexander said.

i'm anti-pit bulls too.

yeah, jack russles bite.... but that doesnt kill ppl.

I don't know if it is the case in every state, but in many states in order to be allowed to even carry a taser the officer must be tased him/herself.

Usually not, but like I said before it can be deadly.

What worries me the most about this incident is basically the increasing militarization and use of violence by the police. There was a very interesting article in The New Repbulic (if I recall correctly) discussing the change over the last ~50 years of the police from a community member group to a small paramilitary group pretty cut off from the community.

I am not aware of one single case of a tazer victim who died ONLY from the tazer. Such cases have ALWAYS, to the best of my knowledge, resulted in the individual having various types of drugs in their system.

did you read my story about the lady in the wheelchair they tazed to death?

see above.

(schizophrenic, def threatening other ppl, but was tazed like, ten times and died.)

did you read my story about the lady in the wheelchair they tazed to death?

State rules Taser death homicide

But prosecutors said the April shocking incident was justified.

By DANA TREEN, The Times-Union

Ten shocks from a police Taser were enough to kill a wheelchair-bound Green Cove Springs woman whose death in a confrontation with two officers in April has been ruled a homicide but, according to prosecutors, justified.

Emily Marie Delafield, 56, was in poor physical and mental health but would not have died if she had not been shocked for a total of 121 seconds by two Green Cove Springs officers, according to the autopsy included in a State Attorney's Office report released Friday. Delafield called police to her house then confronted them with knives and a hammer.

Associate Medical Examiner Valerie Rao, who performed the autopsy in Jacksonville last year, said the Taser shocks were a "very small factor" in the death of Delafield, who was obese and had an enlarged heart and was confined to a wheelchair. But the Tasers were a contributing factor, she said.

"You can't ignore it," Rao said Monday.

In July, Rao listed homicide as the manner of death, according to the State Attorney's report. She described Delafield as a woman who was on a "precipice" health-wise and said Taser shocks could have impacted Delafield's breathing.

But the State Attorney's Office report said officers James Acres and Barbara Luedtke were justified in using the Tasers on Delafield after she threatened the officers in the street in front of her home on Harrison Street.

"She was a dead woman walking," he said Monday. "There was no way she was going to survive that."

On the day after the incident, Emily Delafield's brother, Arnett Chase, said he and other family members believed police acted properly and it was the least-dangerous way to stop her from hurting herself or others.


Police knew Emily Delafield and had been at her house 28 times in the past, according to the state attorney's report. They knew of her mental health issues and had talked that day with family members who were concerned that she was not taking her medication for schizophrenia. Emily Delafield called police to say she believed her life was in danger and that her sister was trying to kill her, an accusation that was later ruled unsubstantiated, the report said.

Luedtke and Acres arrived at the house and decided not to use police batons or pepper spray on Delafield, who was on oxygen due to her medical condition.The officers discussed using Tasers with the family, including some who agreed with their use, authorities said. After a 13-minute standoff, Luedtke fired her Taser when Delafield raised the knife as if to throw it. When the shock did not appear to have an effect, Luedtke told investigators she recycled her Taser up to four times. Acres shocked Delafield two minutes later after Luedtke's shocks appeared not to be having an effect.

Later examination of the two weapons shows Luedtke's Taser was fired nine times and Acres' once for a total of 121 seconds.

Delafield collapsed several minutes after being shocked and died after she was taken to Orange Park Medical Center.

I figured there was more to the story. Man, facts really confuse the sensationalism, don't they?

omg, jeesh ppl. did you read me say that i didnt think she deserved to be tasered??

i just said that she died from it.

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The t-shirts are out.

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Yeah, that's true, and I agree with your latter points lamenting this fact.

Consider, though, that criminals have gotten more and more violent in those same 50 years.

In 1957, you didn't have crazy lunatics shooting into a playground full of school children. You didn't get bank robbers in a shootout with the cops using full auto AK47s. You didn't have folks strung out on meth, driving 140mph through city streets.

Sure, there were the bar fights here and there, and the occasional murder, and so forth. But crime in general has gotten more violent in recent years. The police force, sadly, has had to change drastically to keep pace.