true story.

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"Wayne County man dies in altercation with deputy Posted: Today at 11:47 a.m. Updated: 35 minutes ago GOLDSBORO, N.C. — The State Bureau of Investigation was called in Wednesday morning to investigate after a man died in an altercation with a Wayne County deputy, authorities said. Deputy Martin McAlduff used a stun gun to subdue Joe Spruill Jr. during the incident, said Capt. Tom Effler of the Wayne County Sheriff's Office. The incident began at about 5:30 a.m. when deputies responded to a report of a fight near the intersection of N.C. Highway 111 and Dollard Town Road, southeast of Goldsboro, Effler said. When McAlduff and Deputy Zachary Kinlaw arrived at the scene, they didn't see any evidence of a fight and searched the area. The deputies found Spruill sitting on a porch on Thrasher Circle nearby and were escorting him to his Dollard Town Road home when he became unruly, Effler said. The deputies said Spruill began throwing things at them and resisted when they tried to take him into custody for disorderly conduct, Effler said, so McAlduff fired his stun gun. One prong of the stun gun hit Spruill near the neck, and the second hit him in the back, Effler said. The deputies called EMS, which is standard protocol, he said, but while waiting for paramedics to arrive, they noticed Spruill was lying motionless on the road. Paramedics declared Spruill dead at the scene. Joe Spruill Sr. said his son had collapsed in late December and had been hospitalized for heart problems. He said his son was still on medication for his condition. Jessica Spruill said her husband was well known in the area and that deputies knew he had a heart condition. "They were very aware of the situation in reference to his health and what happened at Christmas," Jessica Spruill said. "They knew his heart was bad, and they (used a stun gun on) him anyway." The younger Spruill is survived by a wife and four children. McAlduff has been placed on administrative duty, pending the outcome of the SBI investigation. That is standard procedure when someone dies in an incident involving a law enforcement officer."

http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/6895270/

1/27/2010 1:06:30 PM

whistled for a cab and when it came near

1/27/2010 1:08:00 PM

If you outlaw stunguns, then only outlaws will have stunguns

1/27/2010 1:08:02 PM

typically if you get into an altercation with a cop

you die.

1/27/2010 1:15:49 PM

Ironically, kill guns stun.

1/27/2010 1:27:30 PM

More deaths prolly occur from people taking aspirin. Here's an idea...if you have a bad heart maybe you shouldn't be fighting and throwing shit at police.

Dunno about anyone else but Id sure as hell rather get the stun gun than the mace.

1/27/2010 6:03:23 PM

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"If you outlaw stunguns, then only outlaws will have stunguns"

if wayne county man had a stungun, this never happen

1/27/2010 6:06:04 PM

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"Here's an idea...if you have a bad heart maybe you shouldn't be fighting and throwing shit at police. "

1/27/2010 6:35:18 PM

great, another family to go on welfare. wait, they probably already were

1/27/2010 6:56:04 PM

What the fuck are you talking about?

1/27/2010 6:56:46 PM

left behind 4 kids

1/27/2010 6:58:25 PM

For all we know she could be a doctor.

1/27/2010 6:58:28 PM

a stun gun society is a polite society

1/27/2010 7:00:17 PM

A "free amac884" society is a free society.

1/27/2010 7:03:52 PM

truer words have not been spoken

1/27/2010 7:09:35 PM

They need to start firing every cop that uses a stun gun when it wasn't absolutely necessary. Otherwise, cops are going to continue to use them for fun. They should also require anyone issued a stun gun to be trained in CPR.

I'd like to know why they were escorting him home instead of just arresting him in the first place.

1/27/2010 7:40:24 PM

yep, this looks like another case where the cop didn't realize that stun guns can kill people pretty goddamn easily.
So much for using less than lethal force, eh?

1/27/2010 7:55:48 PM

1/27/2010 8:04:16 PM

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""Here's an idea...if you have a bad heart maybe you shouldn't be fighting and throwing shit at police. ""

1/27/2010 8:06:00 PM

excellent post hoc observation. I suppose you're going to tell me now that this guy knew he would be murdered?

1/27/2010 8:10:26 PM

10 years ago, cops didn't spray every mother fucker they arrested with pepper spray over and over again before they put the handcuffs on them.

1/27/2010 8:12:50 PM

Another fun fact. Stun guns can CAUSE heart stress / heart problems.

Also, remember that story not too long ago where the police officers insisted that the person they stunned was resisting arrest. Then the truth came out... the 'resisting arrest' was the movement of the person being stunned and convulsing on the ground....

1/27/2010 8:17:02 PM

Who gets in a fight at an intersection at 5:30 in the morning?

1/27/2010 8:17:30 PM

I liked the story about the cop in San Fransisco that accidentally pulled his glock while reaching for his stun gun and fatally shot a person already laying face down on the ground.

1/27/2010 8:23:41 PM

it almost makes sense why people RUN FOR THEIR FUCKING LIVES when the police are chasing them with weapons that they don't have full control over. :-/

1/27/2010 8:26:17 PM

If your worried about that, running should definitely probably help.

1/27/2010 8:57:06 PM

i gotta get tazed on friday

1/27/2010 10:10:27 PM

i have no problem with overuse of the stun gun. wah, one person died. stun guns have saved many more lives than they have taken

1/27/2010 10:13:46 PM

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"wah, one person died."

aha, what planet do you live on?

1/27/2010 10:14:43 PM

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"i have no problem with overuse of the stun gun."

I'm more bothered by this statement. Overuse, by definition, should be considered a problem.

1/27/2010 10:22:09 PM

stun guns don't kill people, people kill people

1/27/2010 11:01:18 PM

idiots get killed by cops because they have a hard-on for defying authority


this fuckbag chose the road he wanted to travel down, now hes dead

1/28/2010 8:53:19 AM

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=990_1257339127

1/28/2010 9:01:50 AM

When I read threads like this I always hope you people aren't as barbaric as you let on. I tell myself you're just in an internet competition to see who can appear more ignorant and brutal.

I am lying to myself

1/28/2010 10:20:11 AM

1/28/2010 10:24:57 AM

EDW's are less-lethal. You can get hurt; this is a rare case. For this one incident there are probably thousands of solid, non lethal EDW discharges that happened today.

1/28/2010 11:00:27 AM

i dont see anything "barbaric" in this thread

I see people who support the police and recognize that it was a freak accident in a justifiable use of non-lethal force

and i see those that oppose the use of this force

in either case, i dont see any barbarism in the arguments

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"Joe Spruill Sr. said his son had collapsed in late December and had been hospitalized for heart problems. He said his son was still on medication for his condition. Jessica Spruill said her husband was well known in the area and that deputies knew he had a heart condition. "

so i take it this guy is no stranger to running afoul of the law

cops are human, im sure they get sick of guys fuckin up repeatedly so he gets less wriggle room anyway

perhaps they used the stun gun anyway cuz the cat was resisting, we dont know this dude could be a 300 lb powerlifter or he could be a retard with retard strength

either way thats dangerous, he would need to be controlled with out risking injury in a hand to hand fight. Hell what if the cops beat his ass for 5 minutes to control him? surely thats less brutal than using a stun gun. the way i see it he gives up the consideration of his heart condition when he didnt calm his ass down.

police cant win in the eyes of the public

[Edited on January 28, 2010 at 12:10 PM. Reason : f]

[Edited on January 28, 2010 at 12:11 PM. Reason : f]

1/28/2010 12:06:25 PM

Use your fucking common sense man.

1/28/2010 12:29:14 PM

what do you mean?

1/28/2010 12:30:46 PM

I guess waiting until he calmed down wasn't an option.

1/28/2010 12:31:34 PM

hell no it aint

hell just let him run free and track him through the woods until he just....oh..tires himself out and collapses on the ground for easy apprehension



[Edited on January 28, 2010 at 12:35 PM. Reason : v]

1/28/2010 12:34:46 PM

Yeah I mean when I'm ramped up on adrenaline I gotta take em down NOW. Rational thinking isn't an option.

1/28/2010 12:35:26 PM

youre using adrenaline in the sense that its roids or somethin

yea im sure they were ramped up on adrenaline, what does that even mean?

unless they were sitting in the car injecting adrenaline into their veins before making the arrest

[Edited on January 28, 2010 at 12:37 PM. Reason : f]

1/28/2010 12:36:42 PM

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"hell just let him run free and track him through the woods until he just....oh..tires himself out and collapses on the ground for easy apprehension"

That actually sounds like a great idea. And then he'd be alive.

1/28/2010 12:37:41 PM

oh brother

hed also be alive if he let the cops take him home and didnt act like a coon

wit his poor wittle heawt condition

[Edited on January 28, 2010 at 12:40 PM. Reason : v]

1/28/2010 12:39:17 PM

Yeah I mean exercising restraint in a job where you have the authority to kill people is a horrible idea

EDIT: Did you seriously just say "act like a coon?"

[Edited on January 28, 2010 at 12:40 PM. Reason : ]

1/28/2010 12:39:43 PM

what the fuck

youre joking

and yes thats what i said, because thats what he did based on the account WRAL posted of the incident

[Edited on January 28, 2010 at 12:41 PM. Reason : n]

1/28/2010 12:40:35 PM

Do you normally hate Black people or is that just something you picked up in college

1/28/2010 12:41:12 PM

really i hate black people now?

dont brig you apologist bullshit to me, i dislike that its ok in the public eye to act out for the police and that its wrong for the police to counter them.

you view people that resist arrest as heroes. this wasnt even an arrest

1/28/2010 12:43:11 PM

I mean, stop trivializing the event into a freak occurence. This shit happens all the goddamn time. It's well known that this "less than lethal force" weapon kills people.

Stop acting like people dont have rights, and deserve whatver is coming to them. Fact of the matter is that we all have a right to at least a trial. The police have no right to judge you in the street and execute you.

Which takes us to the weapon. This seems like it was an accident... which means the police shouldn't be using a weapon that they cannot control.

1/28/2010 12:44:46 PM