Police Taser A Man To Get Him Off Of The Roof, Put Him In A Choke Hold, Then Drags Him Down The Stairs Face First-Man Dies (Video)
Another example of why you shouldn’t call the police. This time, we are in Phoenix Arizona. These geniuses must have flunked Negotiating in the police academy. When will it be enough, people? When the Hell are you going to get that the new police aren’t here to protect and serve, but to punish and abuse? How many more will have to die, before people wake up??
A 44-year-old man climbed onto the roof of his apartment and began acting strangely. Police arrived to help him down, but instead ended up killing him with a series of offensive maneuvers including tasing him while in a choke-hold, and finally dragging his lifeless body down a staircase, with his skull banging against every step. Michael Angel Ruiz is the son of a retired LAPD detective and had a history of drug addiction. On July 28, for reasons unknown, he climbed onto the roof of his apartment. Witnesses called the police to protect his safety. This turned out to have been a fatal decision. Ruiz, while he may not have been sober, was not acting aggressively towards anyone. Police attempted to get him to come down without success. They resorted to tasing him on the roof, a violation of Phoenix Police Department’s own department policy against using a stun gun on someone who is in danger of falling, reported Sara Goldenberg of ABC 15 Arizona. Witnesses say that police tased him several times on the rooftop. After sustaining electric shocks from police, Ruiz complied with requests to come off the roof. Video taken by witnesses shows him hopping down to a balcony. An unidentified Phoenix police officer immediately greeted him with a choke-hold. Police used overwhelming force on the man, who had still shown no signs of aggression. Witness Gary Carthen told ABC 15 that Ruiz was “getting choked out and tased at the same time.” He remained in a choke-hold for at least three minutes, reported KPHO. The most disturbing moments were to come. Michael Ruiz, now fully restrained, was dragged down the concrete stairs on his face. As deputies held his arms behind his back, they allowed his head to dangle and thump against every stair. At this point Ruiz may have already lost consciousness, and was making no attempt to lift his head. Video shows him lifelessly suffering head trauma on the descent down the stair case. “I just felt sick to my stomach,” said Richard Erickson, the man’s father, to ABC 15. “I’d never seen anything like this before, even when I was with the police department.” Ruiz had to be resuscitated at the scene, but was determined to be brain-dead at the hospital, according to KPHO. His family took him off of life-support on August 2.
Witness Verna Young said she could audibly hear the thumps of his face against the stairs. “I started crying ’cause that’s not right, to hurt nobody like that,” she said. “He didn’t deserve that. He was a nice person, very nice.” “I miss him a lot. He was a good man,” said Michael’s father. Ruiz left behind 2 children and a wife. Phoenix Police are remaining tight-lipped about their treatment of Michael Ruiz and an “administrative investigation” will commence.
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[Prosecute] these murderous killers hiding behind uniforms!
Take them out to a corn field and [prosecute] them all!
AGREE 100%
There’s a statute in Arizona that allows for non-law enforcement personnel to make an arrest (as if they were a sworn law enforcement officer) for a felony committed in their presence.
It’s hard to tell if these thugs were Phoenix PD or Maricopa County – the uniforms seem to be Phoenix PD. Regardless, once he was detained and a choke hold maintained for longer that necessary to accomplish an arrest, the event went from a police action to a gang attack. At that crossover moment each of the participants had a legal duty to protect the victim from further aggravated assault and battery. None did. In fact, they aided and abetted each other in state law violations and in a very obvious federal felony violation of the victim’s civil rights. Since they are all members of the same organized crime gang it’s unrealistic to expect them to arrest one another. Any citizen or group of citizens, however, could have stopped the assault and placed the thugs under arrest. (Yes, I understand that’s crazy talk).
Here’s a clip from a blog about citizen’s arrest powers in Arizona – citizens and cops have the same arrest powers – and – the same limits on use of force in making that arrest. It would be interesting if Granny Cratchett had hobbled up there, and on video, announced that she was arresting a few of them for felony battery and felony civil rights violations. The thugs who were aiding and abetting would then have had a lawful requirement to help her and take her arrestees into custody. Failing to do so cements their civil and criminal liability for the death that followed.
This was cold blooded murder by an armed gang of thugs who clearly view themselves as being above the law. This crap has got to stop, and pronto.
Again, the above apply to all arrest. The area where arrests by a private person differ is in the requirements to justify an arrest. According to ARS 13-3884:
A private person may make an arrest:
When the person to be arrested has in his presence committed a misdemeanor amounting to a breach of the peace, or a felony.
When a felony has been in fact committed and he has reasonable ground to believe that the person to be arrested has committed it.
That basically means you can’t perform a citizen’s arrest on someone for littering or speeding.
Assuming you have witness an arrestable offence (say a murder), you may act to arrest the person by restraining them (pursuant to the conditions set above about arrests) and then you must inform the person that you are arresting them and explain why. From ARS 13-3889:
A private person when making an arrest shall inform the person to be arrested of the intention to arrest him and the cause of the arrest, unless he is then engaged in the commission of an offense, or is pursued immediately after its commission or after an escape, or flees or forcibly resists before the person making the arrest has opportunity so to inform him, or when the giving of such information will imperil the arrest.
At the time of arrest you may also take from the person you are arresting any weapons, just as a police officer would do. ARS 13-3895 explains:
Any person making a lawful arrest may take from the person arrested all weapons which he may have about his person and shall deliver them to the magistrate before whom he is taken.
Finally, after physically making an arrest you have two options; you can personally present the arrested person before a judge, or you can turn the person over to a law enforcement officer. The second option is obviously the better choice. From ARS 13-3900:
A private person who has made an arrest shall without unnecessary delay take the person arrested before the nearest or most accessible magistrate in the county in which the arrest was made, or deliver him to a peace officer, who shall without unnecessary delay take him before such magistrate…
To recap: You (as a private person in Arizona) may arrest a person only if you witness them committing a felony or have reason to believe they have committed a felony. You can use force to restrain them, but not excessive force, and after detaining them you must inform them that you are arresting them for committing a felony. Once you have the person arrested, you should call the local law enforcement agency and have them take over.
SOURCE: http://blog.ryantadams.com/2008/01/10/citizens-arrest-aka-arrest-by-a-private-person-in-arizona/
How about simply using lethal force as is justified universally in the defense of self or others?
SO, I guess climbing on your roof is a capitol offense now?