Comments for "This is why they made Tasers" Video at VideoSift.com

By Ryjkyj

Ryjkyj (http://www.videosift.com/member/Ryjkyj) — Tue, 13 May 2008 14:37:35 -0700

I'd like to have seen the whole thing from beginning to end so that I could judge for myself. As is though, cool video.

By critttter

critttter (http://www.videosift.com/member/critttter) — Tue, 13 May 2008 17:44:42 -0700

^ a fine example of 'irony' on Ryjkyj's part!?!??

By schmawy

schmawy (http://schmawy.videosift.com) — Tue, 13 May 2008 17:53:24 -0700

I suspect that it's from one of those 'news' shows over-dramatically narrated by someone like Robert Stack or William Shatner. The "everyman" Bruce Springsteen music is okay, but I agree that I'd like to see the video start to finish, sequential-like.

By siftbot

siftbot (http://www.videosift.com/member/siftbot) — Wed, 14 May 2008 16:48:21 -0700

Tags for this video have been changed from 'Law Enforcement, Struggle, Minimum of force, Brave, Tough, Dedicated' to 'Law Enforcement, Struggle, Minimum of force, Brave, Tough, Dedicated, wrestle, fight' - edited by MarineGunrock

By MarineGunrock

MarineGunrock (http://gunrock.videosift.com) — Wed, 14 May 2008 16:50:15 -0700

I'm shocked to see so many people walk and drive right by without a second look. And that ass with the camera should have helped the guy, lest the crook steal his gun and shoot him.

By critttter

critttter (http://www.videosift.com/member/critttter) — Wed, 14 May 2008 17:05:22 -0700

On a second look, I don't necessarily see the initial incidence of resisting. I apologize for my irony comment, cause I guess I don't really know what I'm seeing here and it's not as open and shut as I initially assumed...

By raddishs

raddishs (http://www.videosift.com/member/raddishs) — Wed, 14 May 2008 17:45:52 -0700

Its GTA IRL!

It's better to die then get arrested since you get to keep your guns that way.

By chilaxe

chilaxe (http://www.videosift.com/member/chilaxe) — Wed, 14 May 2008 17:48:37 -0700

I've seen the full version on youtube or some other site (maybe on that livebreak site, what's it called?).

At the end, Colombo says the guy was trying to get Colombo's gun, so he was having to control his hands, and when Colombo used pepper spray it got on both of them, but the guy was too drugged out to be slowed down by it.

Full article here:

... ''I walk up to him, and he immediately shuts the trunk, and he calls out, This is my car.' "

Sure it is. Colombo pulls out his radio and calls for backup. ''271 to control," he says, but before he can say anything else, the suspect lunges at him, knocking the radio from his hands.

... The taller, bulkier suspect is throwing roundhouse punches and jabs, his long hair flapping in his face. He is grabbing Colombo in places that few men like to be grabbed.

A pudgy guy in a blazer walks past the fight and keeps going. An MBTA bus drives past. The woman behind the camera is yelling for help into a phone.

What's most amazing is Colombo himself, the consummate professional even under attack. He can be heard on the tape constantly shouting, ''Stop resisting and get on the ground."

''If I was in a street fight as a kid, I would have done it differently," Colombo said. ''I would have been more violent. But as a cop, to make an arrest, we have to use the minimum amount of force required. We can't go over."

Colombo finally gets the exhausted suspect in a headlock. He tells some onlookers they could help if they want, and several men rush over and grab various limbs while Colombo places the guy in cuffs.

At the end of the tape, the restrained suspect, later identified as 40-year-old Ruben Delgado of Dorchester, is still kicking up a fuss, telling people he needs water. Colombo says to him: ''Negative, sir. Sit there and relax."

By Aemaeth

Aemaeth (http://www.videosift.com/member/Aemaeth) — Wed, 14 May 2008 19:40:59 -0700

This is why cops use batons: so they can beat someone into submission before they can actually become a risk. I'm not opposed to cops using force to subdue a criminal who is resisting arrest or assaulting an officer (particularly when they are on drugs). The problem with these kinds of scraps is that according to the law of averages, we'd start to run out of cops if they all used headlocks and grappling to make arrests.

By E_Nygma

E_Nygma (http://www.videosift.com/member/E_Nygma) — Wed, 14 May 2008 19:57:22 -0700

I hope he makes detective... Detective Colombo. man, that sounds familiar.

By E_Nygma

E_Nygma (http://www.videosift.com/member/E_Nygma) — Wed, 14 May 2008 19:57:45 -0700

was the car thief doing drugs with the camerawoman?

By alizarin

alizarin (http://www.videosift.com/member/alizarin) — Thu, 15 May 2008 05:21:03 -0700

He was just trying to get the cop to put on the special sunglasses.