A female San Bernardino County Sheriff’s deputy tasered Dante Parker, 36, multiple times as she tried to arrest him after he attempted to break into a home in Victorville, California
Dante Parker was spotted riding a bicycle after attempting to break into a home in Victorville on Tuesday. According to the female deputy, Parker resisted arrest and became combative. He appeared to be doped up on something. She says that a number of Taser shots failed to subdue the black father of five and it took her and a backup deputy to finally handcuff him. He was placed in the back of a patrol car. When the deputies saw he was sweating and breathing heavily, they called for paramedics. Parker was taken to a hospital where he died two days before his 37th birthday.
The Riverside County coroner will conduct an autopsy and determine whether the tasering played any part in Parker’s death.
His family swears that Parker would never commit a burglary and that he was a loving father and family man.
I would guess the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department is very lucky that Victorville is an isolated desert town with a small black population, otherwise it would have another Ferguson ruckus on its hands. I suspect the main worry of the sheriff's office now is about the lawsuit that will surely be filed against it by the Parker family.
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