RIP Dalian Atkinson

robfosters · 15 Aug 2016 at 11:18

Has died after being tasered by the police. What a massive shock that is :eek:

Great striker for the Villa he was.

MooMoo444 · 15 Aug 2016 at 11:40

robfosters said:
Has died after being tasered by the police. What a massive shock that is

Great striker for the Villa he was.

Tasered? Massive shock? Really??

Hotwired · 15 Aug 2016 at 11:43

Well they screwed his heart up.

Kelt · 15 Aug 2016 at 11:44

Hotwired said:
Well they screwed his heart up.

Username checks out.

robfosters · 15 Aug 2016 at 11:47

MooMoo444 said:
Tasered? Massive shock? Really??

I didn't even notice that when I posted, sorry.

Cosimo · 15 Aug 2016 at 11:48

MooMoo444 said:
Tasered? Massive shock? Really??

Not what you'd expect from a tasering:

http://news.sky.com/story/ex-aston-villa-player-dies-in-police-tasering-10537438

shaf · 15 Aug 2016 at 12:14

Not good.

FiveOverEight · 15 Aug 2016 at 13:24

Legend in his day with Saunders.

RIP

Day187 · 15 Aug 2016 at 14:28

R.I.P sad news

ash888 · 15 Aug 2016 at 14:33

RIP...not good to hear

Cosimo · 15 Aug 2016 at 14:40

His famous goal:

RIP

el_dazza · 15 Aug 2016 at 17:59

Utterly shocked when I saw this

RIP Dalian.

Villa fans planning a tribute by all taking brollies to our next home game

Newbfail · 15 Aug 2016 at 19:02

Brollies?

Jokester · 15 Aug 2016 at 19:04

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-37082207

Witness saying the police gave him a good kicking while they were at it as well.

ps3ud0 · 15 Aug 2016 at 20:23

Just saw this

- while its gives no comfort, I hope justice gets done

RIP - hope the brolly tribute happens

ps3ud0 :cool:

McBain · 15 Aug 2016 at 20:35

Eye witnesses saying the Police were kicking him when he was down, and even after he'd been tasered.

Dirty ********.

Pigeon_Killer · 16 Aug 2016 at 16:31

His brother has said he attacked their father.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...aller-dalian-atkinson-threatened-to-kill-his/

If true the tasering sounds deserved and it's just unfortunate he had a weak heart from the dialysis.

tom_e · 16 Aug 2016 at 16:35

It's going to be highly obvious if they gave him that much of a shoeing and continually used the taser,I don't believe it for a second to be quite honest. Coming from just one witness it sounds more like someone with an axe to grind.

this_is_gav · 16 Aug 2016 at 20:38

tom_e said:
It's going to be highly obvious if they gave him that much of a shoeing and continually used the taser,I don't believe it for a second to be quite honest. Coming from just one witness it sounds more like someone with an axe to grind.

Even the BBC said that they could only source one person saying mentioning a "kicking", and I'm guessing there would have been a few spectating from the apparent commotion.

Either the person interviewed wasn't there and was commenting on hearsay (everyone knows someone like that) or the rest of the neighbourhood is ignorant and/or short of eyesight, which is obviously unlikely.

You'd also hope the Sun are reporting accurately (and given they have direct quotes you'd certainly hope so), but they've hardly got a reputation for reporting "the truth"...