An innocent man was tased five times and was brutalized by police. The man Dan Halsted was mistaken for someone who was spraying graffiti on the back of a building by Officer Benjamin Davidson. The cops subdued Halsted and tased him five times because he was resisting arrest. Halsted put the officer on trial on the grounds of police brutality. while on trial the defendant Officer Benjamin Davidson's lawyer defended the action of Davidson by "trying to discredit Halsted, asking him about his collection of Kung Fu movies, and suggested during his closing argument that Halsted kept resisting because he was likely intoxicated. Halsted's attorney countered that there was no evidence of Halsted's intoxication, and asked Halsted if he'd ever been trained in martial arts, to which the answer was no." the jury ruled that a cop can't repeatedly Taser an Innocent man no matter how many kung-fu DVDs the victim has. Halsten recieved $250,000.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/29/dan-halsted-tased_n_1463075.html
This story honetly disgusts me. It is awful that police can act like this, without serious conseqences for their actions. An innocent man was assulted by police officers and the lead officer was not even fired. Dan Halsten wanted this to go to court in order to get a restriction on tasers, and their harmful effects. Dan just wanted justice and to protect others in the future, I know that im thankful for Dan speaking up, I do not want to be jumped walking home or anywhere for that matter, by people who are meant to protect us. again this story sickens me that this happend and is a news story.
