Brickbat: Pretty Tied Up

A federal judge sentenced Mario Stewart, a retired police sergeant in Mount Vernon, New York, to six months in prison and six months of home confinement for repeatedly tasing a restrained 20-year-old man who was experiencing a health crisis. Prosecutors say that while the man's hands were cuffed behind his back and his legs were in a restraint bag, Stewart tased him at least seven times in two minutes. The incident took place in 2019, but Stewart remained on the job until he retired in 2023. U.S. District Judge Kenneth M. Karas emphasized the need to "send a clear message" to law enforcement about adhering to rules, saying Mount Vernon residents should not fear victimization by officers. Stewart pleaded guilty in January to depriving an individual of his civil rights, violating the department's Taser policy that prohibits punitive or coercive use on secured prisoners other than as a last resort.

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[SQRLSY]

Is Mario Stewart one of the Mario Brothers? Is this Taser-abuse-habit of theirs, the reason why the Mario Brothers get masochists all hot and bothered, or, in short, Brothers-bothered?

"Thanks You Sir, may I have another Brothers-bothered?"

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Sweet dreams are made of this
Who am I to disagree?
I travel the world and the seven seas
Everybody's looking for something
Some of them want to use you
Some of them want to get used by you
Some of them want to abuse you
Some of them want to be abused
Sweet dreams are made of this
Who am I to disagree?
I travel the world and the seven seas
Everybody's looking for something

[ddcannady]

You often hear, from Conservatives, that obedience to the police is the path to safety and fair treatment. But, considering the number of individual consensual behaviors that have been made illegal, it's easy to understand how the police could lose respect for the citizens. This, in turn, further erodes respect for the law. It's as plain as the nose on your face that vice laws and prohibitions are actually worse for society than the acts themselves. When liberty is considered to be "permissiveness", one has to ask from whom are we supposed get permission? This represents a complete abandonment of the founding principles of the United States. Many of those who proudly pledge allegiance to our flag seem to forget who it was that made that flag and what it stands for. It's the battle flag of the American Revolution.

[Gaear Grimsrud]

Yeah I often see even libertarians saying things like "driving is a privilege". No. The government should not be in the business of handing out privileges and permissions. It is the citizens that grant the government permission to enforce prohibitions.

[Fist of Etiquette]

U.S. District Judge Kenneth M. Karas emphasized the need to "send a clear message" to law enforcement about adhering to rules...

By letting the criminal continue to collect a paycheck and retire with full bennies before doing anything about it.

[Chumby]

Not sure that 20-year old needs to be exposing the public to his psychotic episodes but Zoomerville demands it.

[SQRLSY]

Snot sure that Punishment-Power-Pig needs to be exposing the pubic to his necrotic, despotic episodes but Lawn-Odor AuthorShitarians demand shit!

(Is there video? Asking, for a fiend of mine, and a fiend of the State!)

[sarcasmic]

Nice of them to wait until he retired, ensuring he'll get a full pension.

[LIBtranslator]

That's the Christian Nationalsocialist policy of "Backing the Black-and-Blue" and ignoring their bruised and beaten victims. The message: "That was for nothing! Now imagine what happens if you actually disobey..."

[Longtobefree]

I always thought the pistol was the last resort.

[mad.casual]

Punitive last resort, no. Defensive or coercive last resort, maybe.

[LIBtranslator]

Another creep chastised, thanks to Reason and to pre-Anschluss Libertarian spoiler vote clout.

[AT]

when symptoms of a psychotic episode worsened and he removed his clothing and warned friends to stay away.

Bring back the sanitariums. I'm not kidding. Why are we letting people who have "psychotic episodes" run free among the citizenry?

Lock up the crazies. LOCK. UP. THE. CRAZIES.

Yea, I'm not cool with a cop juicing a guy in restraints. But I'm even less cool with a bunch of left-wing ACAB pissants who think that the public at large should be subject to (and helpless against) outright self-admitted dangerous psychotics stripping naked and running free in the streets.

We were promised lied to - by leftists(/marxists) - some kind of "community-based social health care" that was "more humane" than an asylum. That was the plan. The asylums were monstrous, and a change was demanded. But they never delivered on the change. They never ever do. What we got was literally psychotic lunatics dumped on the street to sow the chaos and discord - which, I'm convinced, was their ACTUAL agenda in the first place.

[JonFrum]

So many people need tasing, and so few ever get it. I'd like to see a mandated 10x increase in taser use.