a 15-year-old boy was killed after being tased by a police officer while riding his ATV on Detroit's east side

a Michigan State Police trooper, Mark Bessner, spotted him driving his ATV in the Detroit street, which is illegal, and ordered him to pull over.

He didn't, and the trooper gave chase, deployed his Taser and struck the teenager, which caused him to drive over a curb and into the back of a pickup truck. He died shortly afterward at a hospital.

It's a violation of Michigan State Police policy to deploy a Taser from a moving vehicle.

The trooper was suspended with pay and placed on desk duty for using a stun gun in a moving vehicle. He also faces a $50 million federal lawsuit.

Why don't they issue the cops some brains instead of allowing them to do stupid things anyone can tell are idiotic?

Why do the cops keep Bessner employed in view of his previous record of torturing and tormenting perps?

As the Detroit Free Press reported, Bessner has been sued in the past for using excessive force. Since 2013, two different civil lawsuits, both involving Tasers, have been filed against the 43-year-old for excessive force. The first, which was filed in 2013 in U.S. District Court in Detroit and settled a year later, alleges that Bessner "repeatedly struck" and "gratuitously kneed" an unarmed plaintiff, who was never charged with a crime. The second case, filed in Wayne County Circuit Court in 2015, alleges that Bessner Tased the plaintiff on "multiple and continuous occasions with the specific intent of inflicting pain," including after the plaintiff was in handcuffs.

In 2012, the Warren Police Department got rid of tasers 3 years after killing a 16-year-old boy who died after Warren police zapped him with a Taser — 50,000 volts of electricity — while resisting arrest.

http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2017/08/30/lawsuit-atv-fieger-tasered-damon-grimes/616436001/
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