"Harlan began to comply but refused to remove his arms from under his body so officers could finish handcuffing him, Cmdr. Kevin Palmatory of the Moberly Police said. A Taser was deployed again, at which point Harlan complied and officers handcuffed him. The second deployment was very brief, perhaps between half a second and a second long deployment, Palmatory said. Shortly after he was handcuffed, Harlan stopped breathing. Before Randolph County Ambulance District personnel arrived, officers performed mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. When paramedics reached the scene, they began treating Harlan. He was then taken to Moberly Regional Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at around 2:10 a.m. Thursday." This conflicts with witness reports, in which he was seen to be in trouble, and the police refused to let his mother, a witness, assist her son. Her son, according to her, died in the gutter while the policemen searched the car, later noticing ...he was dead. There's 2 or 3 versions of this story, but they all agree, there was a drunk 23 year old, breaking the law, and he was stopped and arrested, tasered twice...and died. 23 year old dies after being tasered; His mother not allowed to do CPR |
