| **UPDATE 4/26/11: $1.9 million Settlement** www.marinij.com NOTE: At 10:24 (in video), Mr McFarland is once again tased for a 4th unreported time (while handcuffed behind his back, lying down with his handcuffed wrists trapped between his spine & floor; causing him agony). This was not mentioned in the original News story. Peter McFarland endured: Tased 4X, 36min of agony, disrespected & humiliated, all in the sanctity of his own home. He was finally hog tied to a special gurney and roughly handled out of his house into a waiting ambulance where he was taken to under go a "forced" 72hour (3 day) Mental Health Evaluation under code 5150. A person has zero rights when held under 5150, no phone call, no access to an attorney, no rights to due process! For those not familiar with this atrocity: MARIN COUNTY, CA On June 29, 2009 Peter McFarland and his wife Pearl were returning home from a charity fundraiser just before midnight. McFarland injured himself as he stumbled and fell down the long steps to his front door. "Mainly it was to my knee and the front of my leg, my shin," McFarland said. His wife called paramedics, who helped him into the house and treated him. As the paramedics were leaving, two sheriff's deputies arrived. "All of a sudden, they just showed up, they came in here like there was a fire going on, like a gunfight was going on," McFarland said. What happened in the following minutes was captured on a camera mounted on the deputy's Taser. The deputy tells ... |
