Drunk tractor driver gets tazed

Baroda-Lake Township police officer John Hopkins told M Live: 'I was weaving back and forth, then at the last second you'll see me pull all the way to the right shoulder. At one point the vehicle semi barreled through a construction zone and nearly hit a township police chief who had been setting up stop sticks to slow it down.

The lengthy chase only came to a close when a Michigan State Trooper shot a rifle from the passenger side at the truck's drive side tire, causing the tread to come off the tired and then ramp off the highway at Exit 22 in Stevenville. But this is when things turned nasty. Though the truck had been forced to stop, the driver refused to come out of the cabin, causing Michigan State Police to send in a K9. The K9 bit the driver, who was still inside the truck, causing him to punch the animal with such force that it fell out of the vehicle.

Though the truck had been forced to stop, the driver refused to come out of the cabin, causing Michigan State Police to send in a K9 pictured. The California man pictured was taken into custody and then transported to Lakeland Hospital in St Joseph Boyd where he suffered a 'serious medical condition'. Police where quick to taser him, according to Hopkins, but even after the taser stopped he continued to fight and had to be pulled out of the truck. Hopkins explained: 'It took four to five cops to get him under control and get handcuffs on him.

The California man was 'clearly under the influence' and 'very much out of it', he said. But while officers seized suspected narcotics from the vehicle and took blood samples from the driver, he suffered a 'medical emergency'. He was not acting normally. Boyd told M Live that the man, who had been driving for Tokay Line of Lodi, California was taken into custody and then transported to Lakeland Hospital in St Joseph Boyd where he suffered a 'serious medical condition'.

It is unknown whether the condition was the result of driving under the influence. He is expected to be arraigned on felony charges next week. Argos AO. Privacy Policy Feedback.

The officers had told the police watchdog they believed the teenager, one officer described as "highly unpredictable", posed a real risk and may be trying to ram a police car parked next to the spikes.

But the IPCA found the driver did not pose a threat and the tasering could have resulted in unnecessary injury to the teenager. It pointed to police policy, which states tasers should not be used on people operating machinery and that they pose a greater risk when someone is intoxicated. She said it was accepted the police officer had other tactical options and lessons learnt from the incident would be communicated to the police workforce.

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