It happened again! We enter into the 40th week of 2009 ... and we report on the 40th taser-related death in America. One per week...This time the tortured man is 38-year old Derrick Humbert. Police pulled Humbert's BICYCLE over at 12:18 am because he didn't have a light on the bike. Humbert got off his bike and ran through the yards of several houses in the neighborhood. Bradenton Police Officer Del Shiflett used his Taser in a fatal ending to the chase.
Before he was to be taken to the Manatee County Jail, paramedics took Humbert to Manatee Memorial Hospital for treatment, but he died there at about 1:00 am.
The penalty for running away from the police should not be death by electrocution. Yet, here we are again with a dead man at the hands of a
so-called non-lethal weapon.It took no time for the police to wave the druggie accusation. They immediately released the fact that Humbert was wanted on a warrant for possession of marijuana.
At this point everyone waits for the autopsy report.
