This article is all about how five sheriff's deputies will be disciplined after they used a taser on a man at a funeral to serve out a arrest warrant. Supposedly the man was going to surrender after the funeral but the funeral wasn't quite over when the deputies came for the arrest so the man "went wild". One officer kneed him in the back before using a taser and everything turned to chaos. The man was the pallbearer for his dad, who the funeral service was for. According to the article the mans name is Gladwyn Taft Russ III. One of the other pallbearers said this, "Everybody was so scared. We thought it was a drug deal gone bad, we almost dropped the casket." From pretty much every opinion I read in the article the deputies did the wrong thing and were stupid to even do it. They could have just waited until after the funeral when they were supposed to anyways to arrest him and all of this wouldn't have happened. New Hanover County Sheriff Sid Causey told The Star-News of Wilmington that "five of the officers involved would be disciplined, and I apologize to anyone that was there," Causey said. "Family, friends, relatives. ... That was a bad decision." He wouldn't say what or how they would be disciplined but just that they would be disciplined. The man being arrested was charged with assault on a government official, resisting an officer, disorderly conduct and felony malicious conduct by a prisoner.
I just can't see what the heck the five deputies were thinking. I mean come on at a funeral? I understand that they guy did resist arrest but the fact that they didn't even acknowledge the fact that he said he would turn himself in after his father's funeral. Like I said before, I just don't get it. I think that what the deputies did was wrong but nonetheless the guy still was a criminal he assaulted his wife and was going to be under arrest no matter if it was 5 minutes before the funeral was over or if the funeral was over. Russ could have saved himself some pain and less prison time if he would have just went peacefully but unfortunately he didn't. He spat on the officers according to the article and no matter what the situation, you just can't do that. I feel sorry for him but at the same time despise his actions towards his wife. I can't imagine being at my father's funeral and while putting away his casket being arrested. I hope the deputies get what they deserved because Russ sure did. I understand why Russ cracked; Russ had tons of pressure, guilt, and sorrow building up inside of him and it all just came out at once it sounds like. As for the deputies... if that is how smart all of our cops are I am a little concerned for our country's safety. This is coming from the mind of a possible ignorant high school student I can only image what others think of this thing too. Until next time...
~Charlie~
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