Imagine the scenario, you get home you fall asleep,
then two thugs enter your home in the darkness,
and stick two spikes into your back, then TASER you while you sleep.
Surrounded by the darkness and familiar comforts of his home, Mr. Hicks was asleep within five minutes. He didn't know it at the time, but he was not destined to have sweet dreams that night.
"I felt a lot of voltage going through my body," Mr. Hicks said recalling the events of that late July weekend. "That's what woke me up."
Jumping to his feet, Mr. Hicks was aware of an intense sensation between the shoulder blades of his 150-pound body. It didn't stop there. His whole body felt as if it were on fire.
When his eyes finally adjusted to the light, his heart skipped yet another beat. Two North Braddock police officers, Gerard Kraly and Lukas Laeuricia, were standing in his living room.
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This is what happened to 29 year old Shawn Hicks back on the 28th July.
He was woken up in the dark by two police officers tasering him as he slept.
They had 'illegally' !! entered his house after a silent alarm had gone off.
He was a tad confused as you can imagine, so asked them rudely what the hell they were doing, and that he lived there. They told him to calm down and tasered him again, he showed them ID, they took it and discarded it, and then tasered him a third time to teach him manners.
He was then taken down the station, held for thre hours, threatened with county jail if he requested medical attention for his bleeding Taser wounds.
Then finally released 3 or 4 hours later, and threatened again that if he got into trouble again they would file charges, which is a weasel way of saying if he made a complaint of the incident, they would invent criminal charges and ruin his life.
Then surprise surprise, the police investigate themselves and find no wrong doing by themselves.
In the van, Mr. Hicks said he told the cops he needed medical attention. He says they told him he would wind up in county lockup if he insisted on it. "Never mind," Mr. Hicks said.
Mr. Hicks sat in a holding cell until 5 a.m. The cops returned. "We're not filing charges," they told him. "You're free to go, but if you get into trouble in the next year, we will file charges."
Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr. said yesterday that the investigation by county police determined there was no criminal matter to be pursued from the July 28 incident in which police Officers Gerard Kraly and Lukas Laeuricia Tasered Shawn Hicks while he was asleep on his couch.
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Two North Braddock police officers won't face criminal charges for Tasering a man who was asleep at home. But the FBI will review the incident for possible civil rights violations.
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