1. pikes was not high on crack or any other substance, refrence the medcial examiners report.
2. he was handcuffed and on his stomach, he was tased for being slow to get up, he wieghed 247 pounds try getting up with your hands behind your back.
3. 9 shot from a taser is overkill period.

police should be held to the same if not higher stander.

both officers should be charged with murder. Nugent and his partner

Before you go off on a rampage trying getting 'all' of the facts. The coroner stated that there were no drugs of any sort in the victim's system. He was a healthy young man who was murdered.

Where does it say he was a drug dealer or a drug user? The reporting stated he was wanted on a warrant for possession of cocaine. No trial, no conviction, innocent until proven guilty-by a court of law or twelve peers; not some rouge cop.

Drug dealer, gangbanger, not so. The victim was a sawmill worker, a tax paying citizen just like you.

Get the facts first before you speak, it can save you a lot of embarrassment and might even keep your studpidity from showing or being heard. Heaven forbid you ever did any wrong and did not receive the harshest punishment possible. Don't cast stones when you live in a glass house. Don't judge harshly lest you be judged as harshly in return.

Joyce
Stockbridge, Ga.

The "victim" of this story is a convicted and known habitual drug user. The coverages so far for these stories, just like the Jena 6 coverage(of which between the six of the defendants they had over twenty prior convictions), the reporters only report a slim portion of the truth that will garner the most attention when the rest of the environment surrounding the situation is ignored.

Winn Parish(Louisiana has Parishes instead of Counties) as a whole is suffering from a string of corrupt officials, from the blurbs of stories covered so far, to the brand new Sheriff who is under investigation of his abuses of office when he was Tax Assessor(using his office to pressure voters, punish supporters of his competition, and rewarding his supporters) .

The largest problem with the coverage of these "racially charged" stories is that the racial tension is being applied by the media and not the environment or the lawyers use race instead of evidence and precedence to build their cases.

“So what he’s a drug dealer or gang banger.”

Our country is founded by laws and regulations. I never seen a young man get the death sentence for drug dealing nor gang activity. However I have seen prison time given to individuals that murder others.

This is murder, I can not defend the officer there are no facts to his story. The gang banger did not appose life threat danger to the officer. This is not a black vs. White story. I expect to see this officer get the prison time he deserves.

"Bell was in a school yard fight in Jena that stemmed from three nooses..."

Wrong. According to Craig Franklin, a Jena journalist and resident:

"Nowhere in any of the evidence, including statements by witnesses and defendants, is there any reference to the noose incident that occurred three months prior. This was confirmed by the United States attorney for the Western District of Louisiana, Donald Washington, on numerous occasions."

See Franklin's article for a myth-by-myth dissection of the "official" version of the Jena case, which was a fraud from start to finish.

Society wants justice for pigs like the late "victim" who was dealing cocaine and blithely committing God knows what other crimes against humanity.

I agree with Average American - it's not the police hammering the black community, it's the parents of these kids who turn their backs, who do nothing to try to dissuade their children from following the same path the parents did. So Boom-Boom or Scavenger or Fat Boy or whatever his street name, was tasered to death; like AA said, good - one less drug dealer on the street.

My condolences to the Pike family.

@Mike in NYC: I love your comments... Your common sense, sense of REALITY, and what's real and true is so refreshing. You need to have your own blog : )

I dont know why anyone would want to be a cop or in the military. Instead of making the world a better, safer place, you discover how sick everyONE is.