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Tomahawk wrote:
grumpycoconut wrote:
Could you strap on a tin star or would you be a better broom pusher?
Well,
one of those is an honest job.
Tasers are, in addition to being used as torture devices to gain compliance, deadly weapons.
At least I think so. To find out for sure, I suggest you go taser a cop at random tonight and see if you don't get charged with assault with a deadly weapon.
But be careful, if he eats too many donuts, he may actually die, and then you'll
really be in a world of sh!t!
Both jobs deal with other people's excrement so what's the difference.
So hows about your hypothetical ADW on a cop charge. You are talking law so it's best to be precise in your use of language.
In CA the best charge would be 244.5 PC, a 2, 4 or 6 year felony, which prohibits assaulting a cop with a "stun gun" or other less lethal weapon as defined elsewhere in the penal code.
Now this doesn't mean that you couldn't make a 245 PC arrest stick.
245. (a) (1) Any person who commits an assault upon the person of
another with a deadly weapon or instrument other than a firearm or by
any means of force likely to produce great bodily injury shall be
punished by imprisonment in the state prison for two, three, or four
years, or in a county jail for not exceeding one year, or by a fine
not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or by both the fine and
imprisonment.
Of course you have to define great bodily injury. For that you have to dig through 243PC for the bit that says
(4) "Serious bodily injury" means a serious impairment of physical
condition, including, but not limited to, the following: loss of
consciousness; concussion; bone fracture; protracted loss or
impairment of function of any bodily member or organ; a wound
requiring extensive suturing; and serious disfigurement.
(5) "Injury" means any physical injury which requires professional
medical treatment
So I guess that if the cop breaks something when he falls down or passes out or gashes himself open when you zap him 245 applies. Of course if you zap him and beat him up badly enough you can go to prison for both 244 and 245. Ain't math fun?
Let's talk donuts now. Here's how that goes. He eats enough donuts and you feel obligated to tease him about it. He gets pissed off and chases you. He has a heart attack and lives to cash those nice fat tax free medical disabitiy checks for the rest of his life. In CA, cop disability is set at 50% of his best ever salary. Tax free that's a nice chunk of change. He laughs at you for the rest of your tax paying lifeknowing that you are subsidizing his donut addiction.