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From North West Florida Daily News

The Pensacola Police Department will review its rules on the use of Tasers in the wake of a fatal chase in which an officer fired a stun gun from his moving car.

“There is not an exact prohibition from that in the policy,” Police Chief John Mathis said. “Any … time that we are involved in something, everything will come under review. It does not say that you will not fire from a moving vehicle.”

Officer Jerald Ard fired his Taser as he chased a man who was fleeing on a bicycle Saturday morning in Brownsville.
The unidentified man fell off the bike. The car Ard was driving then ran over the man, Pensacola police said.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/downsouthmayn/ downsouthmayn

    WE WILL NOT STAND FOR THIS ANYMORE!!!! THE POLICE SHOULD CHANGE THEIR SLOGAN FROM “TO SERVE AND PROTECT” TO “TO HARASS AND HUMILIATE”!!! WE MUST END POLICE BRUTALITY NOW!!! ANOTHER YOUNG BLACK CHILD KILLED BY THE LONG, DECEITFUL, VIOLENT ARM OF THE LAW IN AMERIKKKA… WHAT A SHAME. I SEND MY CONDOLENCES AND PRAYERS TO THE FAMILY

    THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/snookyk2/ snookyk2

    I know that in Pensacola,FL. The law show’s no mercy when it come’s people braking the law no mader who you are and what kide of JOB you have. You can be a COP, in the GOVERNMENT. BUT WHEN YOU BRAKE THE LAW IN PENSACOLE,FLORIDA YOU WILL GO DOWN. And when you GO DOWN YOU WILL GO DOWN HEARD. And this DUM ASS COP NEED’S TO GO DOWN HEARD THEY NEED TO THROUGH THE LAW BOOK AT HIM AND PUT HIM BE HIND BAR’S. This COP TOOK THE LAW WAY TO FAR. AND HE JUGDE THAT TEENAGER FOR NO RESON AT ALL.There was no reson for that COP to pull out HIS TASER AND TASER THIS YOUG MAN AT ALL. THIS COP BROKE THE LAW AND NOW HE NEED’D TO PAY FOR IT.!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/_A_/ _A_

    Who wants to bet that this cop gets a far less sentence than he deserves?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/LastManStandingTall/ LastManStandingTall

    The moral of the story is: Don’t run from the police. Accidents happen, and by running, you up the chances of one happening. Personally, I support the use of tasers. I think it’s awesome to watch some criminal writhing in shock as 50,000 volts of electricity runs through his/her delinquent azz. Instead of jumping to the dead man’s side, how about you question why he was running in the first place? I need to know more before I decide that the police was wrong here.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Da_J_Rok/ Da_J_Rok

    Being that it was in P-Cola I know the kid was black, I used to live in Ft Walton, so I know how the “Strong Arm of the Law” get down… Pepper Spray is just as effective plus he was on a bike, lets be serious, its the cops fault

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/lafaspen/ lafaspen

    being from p’cola and knowing how the cops get away with things this will end up being justified.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/BEuatiFUL09/ BEuatiFUL09

    My thing is a ” suspicious person” so that gives that mutha a right to tase. No it does not, I could see if he was maybe robbing a bank or something in that nature. Cops always ride around and see who they can F- with daily, here in Wick city. Its about intimidation, that poor kid probably was tryna go home b/c cops are always throwing their badge around. I pray for these type of incidents to end. Police officers need more training!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ASS_BACKWARDS/ ASS_BACKWARDS

    good post last man…only criminals run from the police….

    No more running for this dumb nigga…lol

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/armandx99/ armandx99

    Bottom line–The cop ran over the guy with his squad car. You can’t have it both ways. The cops can’t be allowed to “mistakenly” kill people using the excuse that they were only trying to arrest someone. This incident far exceeds excessive force, steamrolling into deadly force. If the guy was on a moving bike, and we all know that a taser hit will drop anybody, where did the cop think the guy was going to fall? In the back seat?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Shinagamei/ Shinagamei

    @downsouthmayn thats funny i thought the sloan changed from “to protect and serve” to “to punish and opress”

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/im_n_motion816/ im_n_motion816

    lol….renee allen is a crackhead….at that time the officer stick him with a laser…..lmao….stay away from the camera

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ButterCup_421/ ButterCup_421

    This is bulls**t!! what a dumb ass cop

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/wesleywest/ wesleywest

    “last man” and “ass backwards”….yall got it right….i agree

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/SheShe88/ SheShe88

    ppl who support tasing can support it…untill its their child.

    i live in NY and mase is just as fine but is used only in extreme cases. Cops got bigger things to worry about other than testing tasers on teenagers:HOmicides(mostly by teens).

    Regardless, thats someone child who died and no matter what. BUt ppl will sing a different song when its their “innocent” baby.

    The last police homicide that occured was a 14yr old boy.
    Teen was wrong: he had stolen a car
    Result: He was shot in the head for”threating the police safety”.

    Story: the 14yr old was no taller than 5ft 1. He was so small he played Pop Waner Ftball and was in the he was placed in Jr. PeeWee instead of The Midgets.
    The Car was trapped in an alley and out of gas
    HOw was he a threat?? a criminal?? yes. BUt do you kill every criminal???

    Their are other ways to deal and GD cops know better.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/maatra/ maatra

    Lastmanstanding needs to be standing in front of a phukin fire squad

    This kkkracka azz kkkops killed one of their own who didn’t run

    These bastards killed barmore in rockford illinois who ran into a church and thought he was safe

    These bytches tasered a amputee with no leggs in california

    Mutha phukas like u need to stay the phuk away from real talks

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/PRINCE_DEJOUR/ PRINCE_DEJOUR

    This is a tragedy that the boy died but I don’t think the police officer was tying to kill him. Age does not mean anything a large number of crimes are being perpetrated by young people.

    I’m tired of hearing black people say I ran from the police because?? This is an excuse! COMMON SENSE. If you are innocent then you don’t need to run because it makes you look guilty of something. What are officers supposed to do? Yes I support tasing its better then getting beat with a billy club. Yes there are some crooked officers but people on here put them all in the same category which makes no sense. That’s like saying all black people do is have kids and then not support them.

    I don’t see people on here nearly as upset by the thousands of black people murdered by black people. It seems as if black people protect and don’t care when black people kill each other daily. The don’t snitch creed is really doing a great job in the black community.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/maatra/ maatra

    Shut yo bytch azz up prince da hore

    Phuk all these kkkops and the black nazi gestopo

    Nagas kill nagas because of a lack of knowledge of self

    many nagas try hard to b with the kids they father but because they don’t wanna b wit the baby momma she make it hard for him to b wit the child

    It seem like the kkkops are commitin more vilonce then any damn so called thug

    Phuk them and phuk u too

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/natchela/ natchela

    PRINCE DA HORE, WESLEYWEST, LASTMANSTANDINGTALL & ASSBACKWARDS(THAT NAME EXPLAINS IT ALL)NEED TO LET IT HAPPEN TO SOMEONE IN THEIR FAMILY BUT I WISH IT WAS YOU!!…YOU ALL ARE SUM SORRY MUTHEF**KER TO MAKE THOSE LAME AZZ STATEMENT ABOUT YOUR OWN PPL….AND THAT GOES FOR ANYOTHER PUZZY AZZ B***H THAT MADE A STATEMENT LIKE THAT..THAT’S ONE OF THE REASONS WHY AFRICAN AMERICANS IS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE BARREL NOW…MUTHERF**KERS NEED TO STICK TOGETHER….ALL FOUR OF YOU IDIOTS NEED TO BE TASZER IN THE AZZ B/C YOU DON’T HAVE ANY NUTTS!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/sabreenas1st/ sabreenas1st

    F**K THE POLICE THATS HOW I TREAT EM,THIS IS A TRAGIC SITUATION,WHETHER HE WAS FLEEING THE POLICE OR NOT THERE SHOULD OF BEEN ANOTHER WAY FOR THE OFFICER TO HANDLE THIS SITUATION,IT WAS BAD ENOUGH THE TEEN WAS TASERED BUT RAN OVER!!!THAT S**T WAS ON PURPOSE OUTTA ANGER FROM THE TEEN NOT STOPPIN FOR THE ASSHOLES WHO SUPPOSED TO SERVE AND PROTECT,NOW THIS DUMB ASS POLICE WILL BE GETTIN SERVED AND IT WONT BE NOBODY THERE TO PROTECT HIS ASSHOLE!!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/gren1shaw2/ gren1shaw2

    I see that the police have a new weapon to kill black people with,cars.I had often seen police use their cars against people on cops.I guess that gave them a new idea.running over people, they can always claim that it was an accident.as long as the person is dead,the goal has been met.let’s see,shooting,choking,tasing,sodomizing,chest compression ,and now running them over.they have gone power mad,because they know they are going to get away with it.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/cdrop_32/ cdrop_32

    this is another sad case of a phuckin police who has some anger issues and kills another innocent person..get serious a phuckin bike can’t out run a damn car on a cold day in hell..these phuckin police should get on there knees and pray because they may get away with it now but theres a higher power than them and they must be judged!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Complex_Crazy_Beauty/ Complex_Crazy_Beauty

    I hate lastmanstanding everybody has a right to their own opinion but he is anti black! @lastmanstanding why don’t you join another site since you seem to hate us black people so much!!! You probably have a white wife too! lol. Sell out

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/darrellm2/ darrellm2

    First and foremost the average person is going to have an opinion. But most policemen use extreme force and carry their authority way to far. As soon as they realize that its a black person they immedately come to you with aggressive behavior and even when you know that you are not guilty they make you seem guilty. Either ‘lastmanstanding’ has never had an encounter with a aggravated police officer or he lives in no mans land. But the day that he has to encounter the hostitily and disrespect of a police officer trust and believe his trust in them will soon desolve.My mother works at a place where the police patrol. And they told her that they will stop a car with 3 black boys in it before they stop a car with 3 white boys.So go figure!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/PRINCE_DEJOUR/ PRINCE_DEJOUR

    IGNORANCE IS BLISS:
    I wonder why people continue to use profanity, derogatory language, over stated militant black speech and scriptures from the bible. I thought this was a website where anyone can give his or her opinion on the particular topic.
    I did not know that BP/Hello Beautiful had Blog City Gangsters on here! Maybe I need to call the Police.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/so_blunted/ so_blunted

    this is sad to read another young black male being killed by police offices. if he was guilty or not this was no accident. these racist a*****e are killing are men old and young. i lost a brother-in-law and a few friends from “mistake” on the police behaves. i weight only 100lbs and two offices pull me out the car and slam to the ground.(yes i was driving on expired tags) but they use excessive force againt me when i was surrendering.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/MrPoeticRomantic/ MrPoeticRomantic

    To all of you so-called men who thinks this is just…do you have sons? Or any children for that matter? It states” inncent until proven guilty”! If we as a race don’t stand up and speak out about the abuse of power by the Police then we’re doom to suffer at their hands. This young man can’t tell his side of the story, so where is the justice for his grieving family? Make no mistake, we need law-enforcement, but we need fairness in their judgement on the type of force they use to subdue someome. Most of these cops are mad because of who our President is and feel theyshould take it out on the anyone who resembles him. The madnes and abuse must stop and it’s up to us to sound off about it. May GOD help us all!

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