[nfbwatlk] You just never know

[Becky Frankeberger]

Oh trust me now a days Police are not stupid.  In fact in Brian's class at
the Academy he had the least college. In fact a couple of the Officers had
masters degrees.  They couldn't find work in there field and turned to a
parallel course being a Police Officer.  Brian was hired out of the Academy
for the Kirkland force.  In fact his whole classwas hired by different
places in WA.   

Becky and Jake 
-----Original Message-----
From: nfbwatlk [mailto:nfbwatlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Kaye Kipp
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2012 2:27 PM
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Subject: Re: [nfbwatlk] You just never know

Yikes.  That's scary.  If they're that stupid, one wonders how they can
perform their job.

Kaye
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com>
To: "NFB of Washington Talk Mailing List" <nfbwatlk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2012 2:22 PM
Subject: Re: [nfbwatlk] You just never know


>I once actually witnessed a cop trying to show a guide dog a map!
>
> Mike
>
> On Oct 22, 2012, at 13:59, "Prows, Bennett (HHS/OCR)" 
> <Bennett.Prows at HHS.GOV> wrote:
>
>> And I complain when a car crushes my cane as the driver tried to beat me 
>> to the driveway of a parking lot when I was just walking down the 
>> sidewalk. Certainly gives you perspective.  On the other hand, you gotta 
>> wonder about police that can't tell the difference between a cane and a 
>> samurai sword.
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nfbwatlk [mailto:nfbwatlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of 
>> Nightingale, Noel
>> Sent: Monday, October 22, 2012 9:12 AM
>> To: nfbwatlk at nfbnet.org
>> Subject: [nfbwatlk] FW: You just never know
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Altman, Jeff
>> Sent: Monday, October 22, 2012 8:14 AM
>> To: NCBVI Everyone
>> Subject: You just never know
>>
>> Police use Taser on blind man, thinking his cane was samurai sword
>>
>> A blind man carrying a white cane received a 50,000-volt Taser shock from

>> British police who thought his walking stick was a samurai sword.
>>
>> "It felt like I was grabbing an electricity pylon," 61-year-old Colin 
>> Farmer told the BBC 
>> <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-19979184 
>> <blocked::http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-19979184> > .
>>
>> Lancashire police officer Stuart Williams said authorities had received 
>> several calls describing a man walking through the streets carrying a 
>> samurai sword.
>>
>> "One of the officers who arrived in Chorley believed he had located the 
>> offender," Williams said. "Despite asking the man to stop, he failed to 
>> do so and the officer discharged his Taser."
>>
>> However, even in offering an explanation, Williams said the police had 
>> "deep regrets" over the incident and says the Independent Police 
>> Complaints Commission has launched an investigation into the matter.
>>
>> "We have clearly put this man through a traumatic experience, and we are 
>> extremely sorry for that," Williams said.
>>
>> In fact, Farmer says he thought the police were criminals attempting to 
>> mug him 
>>
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/oct/17/police-taser-blind-man-stick?CMP=t
wt_gu 
>>
<blocked::http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/oct/17/police-taser-blind-man-st
ick?CMP=twt_gu> 
>>  > when the assault took place. He said that once police approached him, 
>> he became "absolutely terrified," and repeatedly attempted to inform them

>> that he was blind.
>>
>> "I walk at a snail's pace. They could have walked past me, driven past me

>> in a van or said: 'Drop your weapon,'" he said.
>>
>> However, as far-fetched as it may sound, the samurai sword angle did not 
>> come out of nowhere. But the reality of the situation was far more 
>> mundane as opposed to resembling the plot line of the 1989 Rutger Hauer 
>> action film, "Blind Fury." After Williams was taken to a nearby hospital,

>> police later arrested a 27-year-old man who was carrying a samurai sword 
>> and was suspected of being drunk and disorderly.
>>
>> Williams said the police stayed with Farmer at the hospital until he was 
>> released and escorted him to a meeting with friends afterward, at his 
>> request.
>>
>> Tom Brennan KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP
>> web page http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html 
>> <blocked::http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html>
>>
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