Tasers
February 20, 2005
The PNJ has finally caught on to the Taser issue in Pensacola…three weeks after we broke the story. The Southern Leadership Conference is serious about getting law enforcement agencies around the country to look at uses and abuses.
What we know is local officers are using the taser as toys and as a means of punishment. The video tape we got of Police Officer MacPhail tasering Koch (see WEAR.com & Inweekly.net) while he was in the Escambia Co. Jail is hard to ignore.
Hell, the Escambia Co. Sheriff has a deputy that has used his taser so much (over 100 times last year) he’s called “The Shocker”.
Word has it – MacPhail is leaving the Pensacola Police Dept to go work for Sheriff McNesby – looks like “Shocker” might get some competition.
