Cook County (IL) Sheriff's officers used their taser guns to impose pre-judicial electrocution on 31-year old Jerome Hill on July 15. Jerome Gill was subject to a year-long drug investigation. Officers were about to apprehend Gill during an undercover purchase of drugs, but he fled and resisted arrest (according to the police). 50,000 volts of electricity from a taser gun were pumped into Gill's body; he was later subdued by officers who physically pulled him to the ground and placed him under arrest.
An official cause of death won't be determined until toxicology results and the autopsy of Gill are completed by the Cook County medical examiner's office.
Jerome Gill may have been a drug dealer and a bad person. However, there is no death penalty for selling crack cocaine to an undercover police officer. Neither does the death penalty apply when you resist arrest. Yet, we again see that the police used their taser gun to kill someone. This pattern repeats itself on a weekly basis in America.
Something is wrong. Don't you agree?
