Officers with the Tybee Island, Georgia police (what's with the cops in Georgia lately, anyway?) are accused of using a TASER not once, but twice on an 18-year-old autistic man with a heart condition and then throwing him to the ground, breaking one of his front teeth in the process, simply because the teen was sitting on the curb with his head between his arms:
"[Clifford] Grevemberg's brother, Dario Mariani, says officers told him Grevemberg was being drunk and disorderly. He says he responded that the youth is a special needs child who has never had alcohol."
This sounds suspiciously like one of those all-too-often occurring incidents where a person didn't snap to as fast as the officers wanted, so the cops arrogantly decided to speed things up a bit by misusing a "less than lethal" weapon that was never intended to be deployed as a compliance tool. How helpful of them.
"A police dispatcher said Sunday nobody was available to comment."
No, we imagine no one at the department will be willing to opine on this apparently maddening turn of events for quite some time, at least until the inevitable lawsuit is settled.
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