Comments on: Man Dies Two Weeks After Being Tased By Escambia Deputies

By: al thomason

al thomason — Sat, 27 Dec 2014 03:21:53 +0000

what happened to respecting police officers. Many young men would be alive today if they simply held out their hands and were handcuffed. Respect it’s a lost art today. Parents teach your children respect. We do have bad apples for cops but they’re few and far between that can be dealt with later loss of life cannot be.

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Tue, 23 Dec 2014 06:29:01 +0000

Condemned if you tase
Condemned if you don’t tase.
(my tablet meant well, so I didn’t check closely enough)

By: DavidHuieGreen

DavidHuieGreen — Mon, 22 Dec 2014 04:59:14 +0000

Condemned if you tase
Condemned if you don’t tease.

By: NOT Thinking

NOT Thinking — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 23:24:14 +0000

Thinking,
This man was on school property exposing himself and acting crazy. Yes, obviously he had mental issues. Who in their right mind would act that way. However, your statement 1. Bring in mental health professionals….to the scene of a crime where children are in danger? I think not. One has to be transported to the local jail or to a hospital in order for psych to be recommended and only another physician can do so. You honestly think SIX (you did say SIX) should have been called upon to handle this. I don’t think so. 2. “Cops are not qualified to handle crazy people.”….actually, they are. Why do you think they are dispatched.

Mental health is something that should be addressed-in the right time and place. At the scene of a crime taking place is not the place. Where children’s lives and protection are a stake is not the place. Health insurance covers mental health. One has to seek it out if they are not placed under the Baker Act, first. Too many plead ‘temporary insanity” as a cop out (no pun intended), so to say that this is only a mental health issue is ridiculous. No one should have lost their life over this incident, but no one knows if it was the taser or the fact he was high on spice and God knows what else that killed him. His only family said he wasn’t in a good place.

By: thinking

thinking — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 15:48:10 +0000

Whatever happened to calling the men with the white jackets, as my grandmother used to say. Police saw that he had no weapons and acting strangely. Time for them to step back and call psychiatric services. Six guys with a straight jacket could have subdued him put a jacket on him strapped him down and taken him to a psychiatric facility where he could have gotten help and then dealt with the legal consequences of his actions. He’d still be alive. The state of psychiatric care in this country is terrible. Cops are not qualified to handle crazy people. They should have resources to call in people who are. We need to address mental health care in this country. We need to be able to encourage a societal culture that approves of people seeking help for mental health issues. We wouldn’t have such a high rate of multiple varieties of crime that we see today. We should be ashamed that this young man needed help and we did nothing. Now he’s dead. Not the cops fault it’s our fault.

By: countrygirl

countrygirl — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 16:29:40 +0000

What a shame and prayers to the family. I agree with some of the comments here. There had to be some other underlying medical problem or health issue. People don’t die from tasing and if they did, it would probably be on contact….not 2 weeks later. Hopefully the autopsy will clear everything up as to exactly what happened.

By: coworker

coworker — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 13:04:49 +0000

Cody wad a great kid worked with him for a while very respectful and hard working. He has gone through some very hard times in his life.if I know anything about him it’s that he loved his daughter more than anything. I’m completely saddened that he won’t be there for her especially for the holiday seasons. People need to see the bigger picture. A life was taken and more than anything a father was taken from a little girl that now will have to grow up with out him…. as for the drug use he was clean. He pretty much kept to himself. It’s such a shame he had leave this world so soon.

By: A Mom

A Mom — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 11:43:03 +0000

Desiree Hamm, I really do hate it for the lil girl, BUT, they found spice in his residence, so shut your trap, you sound as bad as his parents, people get help, you don’t show yourself to kids, I’d hate to see what he done to his lil girl & you don’t go off on law enforcement, thanks to people like you, is the reason, half these people don’t get help.

By: Desiree hamm

Desiree hamm — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 03:35:14 +0000

For one none of y’all was there so don’t judge and for two Cody does not do drugs I know him and for three he was on his own property and if y’all must know two summers ago he was knocked out into a fire and left to die he has ptsd so he was probably having a flash back and thought he was on fire. …. so if u don’t know him or know what happen keep your trap shut. … how would u feel if this was u and people said the stuff y’all are saying about u. .. only God can judge and thanks to these sorry police officers a little girl list her father

By: molino jim

molino jim — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 02:03:06 +0000

If you have some free time look at his history of arrests. Check just the last name also.