In April of 2009, a Minneapolis cop tasered 18 year old Rolondo Ruiz who was standing still, with hands on hood of police care, in the neck.
Ruiz was arrested after he allegedly broke a window of an officer’s personal car parked in the lot by the 2nd Precinct station in Minneapolis. The cop may have taken the broken window personally, and decided to punish Ruiz.
The video has caused the FBI to start an investigation into the police officer’s actions.
Ruiz has plead guilty to damaging property.
There does not appear to be any justification for tasering him as shown on the video. Tasers are to be used when the bad guys are threatening someone’s life, not as the cop’s own Judge Dredd version of trial, conviction, and punishment on the street.
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