Video shows chase before Florida biker
was tased, ‘cooked alive’
New York Post,
by
Snejana Farberov
Original Article
Posted By: mc squared,
5/21/2022 9:43:42 AM
Dramatic footage shows the wild, high-speed chase involving the motorbiker who was “cooked alive” in a blaze that started when he was tased by a deputy.
Osceola County Sheriff Marcos Lopez held a press conference Thursday to share the footage and announce charges against the deputy who deployed his Taser against 26-year-old Jean Barreto on Feb. 27.
The footage shows a man on a dirt bike wearing an orange helmet, whom the sheriff’s office has identified as Barreto, fleeing from a patrol vehicle at a high rate of speed in Osceola County.
He could be seen weaving in and out of traffic, driving the wrong way and popping
Reply 1 - Posted by:
SweetPea3 5/21/2022 9:50:08 AM (No. 1161795)
He would have had a better outcome if he had obeyed the police and stopped in the first place.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Namma 5/21/2022 9:53:59 AM (No. 1161799)
well gooolllyyy, if the biker had stopped and not been chased, this would not have happened. Maybe the biker should sue the dirt bike company for making an inferior product. Oh wait, the guy is on the highway on dirt bike, weaving in and out of traffic, at a high speed, not stopping when told to. is he the innocent person?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Venturer 5/21/2022 9:55:25 AM (No. 1161801)
Pretty stupid move by the cop.
I do have to say that I would like to tase some of these butt heads who believe the highway is a place for them to perform their stupid assed stunt shows.
But I saw no reason to jump him like that. A simple arrest would have sufficed.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Ribicon 5/21/2022 9:56:12 AM (No. 1161802)
Now that he's been cooked, he can call himself Jean Burrito. FTA: “It shows how reckless the suspect was, and how much danger he brought to himself as well as other members of the community,” the sheriff said, adding that Barreto blew through about 13 red lights on his 30-minute joyride."
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
BarryNo 5/21/2022 9:57:51 AM (No. 1161805)
My sympathies are with the other cop.
I wouldn't have been sorry if the tazer deployer had used his gun, instead.
Showed a real lack of situational awareness on the part of the that tazing officer, but not any malicious intent. Biker earned his burns.
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The thug is not a biker. A biker would’ve stopped when the police put on their lights…
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
BarryNo 5/21/2022 10:36:18 AM (No. 1161859)
My apologies. I used "zbiker" as a descriptive for someone who rides a motercycle, in this case. No reference nor implication was aimed at any group or organization.
Now... i feel like a disclaimer like the ones on bottles of cleanser. Drinking this may cause serious harm..
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Birddog 5/21/2022 10:42:35 AM (No. 1161867)
The perps claim is that "Cops should have known better than to deploy taser"?...
Ya? Perp should have known better than to have put them into a situation where they would/could do so...Criminals who think it is a game to flee from cops should get charged with EVERY violation committed during that chase, he ran 30 stop lights? 30 charges. endangered 2 dozen other motorists? 2 dozen charges of endangerment. Pulled wheelies ten times? Ten "Unsafe operation" violations, EVERY illegal lane change, if 5 cars were chasing? Five fleeing/eluding/resisting charges.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 5/21/2022 10:47:59 AM (No. 1161877)
The Darwin Award for smartest biker of the year goes to.... Jean Barreto.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
mc squared 5/21/2022 10:51:03 AM (No. 1161878)
Agree that the biker initiated the whole situation, but the cop who used the taser isn't any brighter, and they're the ones with 'professional training'. Aren't they supposed to use minimal force?
Seems odd that a man fleeing from the police would stop in to fill up with cops on his tail.. Maybe this isn't the whole story.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
cor-vet 5/21/2022 11:00:07 AM (No. 1161893)
Since he was already down, the tazer was unnecessary, but some cops think they're Callahan on a power trip. I feel bad for cop #1, suffering because a fellow LEO made a bad decision. I have no sympathy for the bike rider, he was totally breaking the law and he knew it. Fire Crawford and prosecute the biker!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
formerNYer 5/21/2022 11:06:00 AM (No. 1161903)
Do stupid things and win stupid prizes.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
MDConservative 5/21/2022 11:31:24 AM (No. 1161927)
The truncated video shows a man tackling another to the ground. There is no visual of what occurred after that point. Another bodycam video appears to show the perp on the ground face down when tased. What was the sense of further force, especially in an explosive environment that the tasing officer recognized before firing? Another squad was pulling up. No weapon in evidence. Negligence, regardless of the biker's on-road behavior. Sheriff Lopez can start signing checks made out to Barreto.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
joew9 5/21/2022 11:40:19 AM (No. 1161939)
I feel so bad that a perfectly good operating gas pump was apparently destroyed. What a waste of needed technology.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
DVC 5/21/2022 11:42:53 AM (No. 1161941)
OOPs. Don't run from the police is the take home from this.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
DrOstrow 5/21/2022 12:19:59 PM (No. 1161985)
See, if we ALL had electric vehicles NONE of this would have happened !! /soff
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
smokincol 5/21/2022 3:19:47 PM (No. 1162142)
copious amounts of alcohol and 220,000 volts, bad combination, was he wearing "colors"
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