Police officer blasts man in groin with Taser!
LONDON, England - July 20, 2010 - A man is threatening to sue police after an officer discharged a 50,000-volt Taser into his groin.
Peter Cox, 49, was on his way to do some landscaping work at the home of a friend when he noticed a police patrol car was following him.
He pulled over outside friend Donna Allen's house in Bridgwater, Somerset, but after a short conversation with police officers he collapsed to the ground after being shot in the groin.
Police claim the Taser weapon was accidentally discharged and an investigation was underway.
Eyewitnesses to the incident in Somerset claim the male officer pointed the Taser gun at Peter Cox for more than 20 seconds before lowering the weapon.
But police claim the weapon discharged accidentally and Cox dropped to the ground in agony after one electric probe missed his genitals by three inches.
Peter Cox said, “I got out of the car and asked the police what they wanted. I then asked them to park on the other side of the road because we were working on the front garden. The officer didn't say anything, but he got out of the car and pulled out a Taser and pointed it at me. I didn't know this at the time so I just went on with what I was doing and got a bag of stone for the garden out of the boot. Then he shot me. I wasn't looking but Donna says he had it pointed at me for 20 seconds before it went off. I was really shocked and I didn't know what was going on. I got one in my groin and one in my ankle. It really hurt. It just stunned me completely and felt like someone was stabbing me with a fork all over my body.”
Paramedics treated Cox, who suffers from debilitating Guillain-Barre syndrome, on the front lawn of the property. Cox denies acting aggressively towards the officers and remains completely dumbfounded as to why he was tasered.
A spokesperson for Avon and Somerset police said that officers wanted to speak to Cox because they suspected the BMW he was driving was not insured. But Cox called his insurers immediately after the incident and it was confirmed the car had valid insurance.
