Sarah Schielke - The Life & Liberty Law Office | Full Unedited Bodycam of Cops Tasing 75 y.o. Man in His Own Home (Officer Hanning) @LifeLibertyLaw | Uploaded July 2021 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
Certain faces in this video have been blurred in compliance with a court order.
In the middle of the night on May 30, 2021, two Idaho Springs Police officers (Officer Nicholas Hanning and Officer Ellie Summers) banged on 75-year-old Michael Clark’s apartment door, stormed inside, attacked him, returned to the hallway, and then – while he stood unarmed and in his boxer shorts 8 feet away from them in his apartment posing no cognizable threat whatsoever – they tased him. Mr. Clark lost consciousness and flew backwards from the tasing, striking his head on a dining room chair on the way down.
His head was split open and bleeding. The officers dragged his body into the hallway for all to see. And then they climbed atop his lifeless body, with Officer Hanning putting his knee over and onto Mr. Clark’s head and neck, compressing his airway. They handcuffed him on the ground. He laid there, non-responsive, for 2 minutes and 23 seconds. He was transported to the hospital with his wrists and ankles restrained to the stretcher so that he could not move. The hospital kept Mr. Clark overnight to monitor his heart, which was not well due to the tasing causing elevated troponin levels throughout. On Memorial Day, he began vomiting blood. The day after that, he had a stroke. He was never charged with any crime.
Mr. Clark, a proud father of two and grandfather of seven, enjoyed a rich, happy, independent life prior to this event. On May 30, 2021, that life was recklessly and deliberately obliterated by the Idaho Springs Police Department. Now, 8 weeks later, he remains in a 24-hour complex nursing care facility, awaiting heart surgery. He has yet to go home to his own bed and his 2 beloved cats, Marbles and Gracie. The Idaho Springs Police Department stripped him of his independence, his security and his health.
His sole objective in the time he has left is to do whatever it takes to ensure this horrific abuse of a citizen by police does not happen again. That task begins by exposing the truth, and demanding change. With everything he has left, Mr. Clark does so today.
Certain faces in this video have been blurred in compliance with a court order.
In the middle of the night on May 30, 2021, two Idaho Springs Police officers (Officer Nicholas Hanning and Officer Ellie Summers) banged on 75-year-old Michael Clark’s apartment door, stormed inside, attacked him, returned to the hallway, and then – while he stood unarmed and in his boxer shorts 8 feet away from them in his apartment posing no cognizable threat whatsoever – they tased him. Mr. Clark lost consciousness and flew backwards from the tasing, striking his head on a dining room chair on the way down.
His head was split open and bleeding. The officers dragged his body into the hallway for all to see. And then they climbed atop his lifeless body, with Officer Hanning putting his knee over and onto Mr. Clark’s head and neck, compressing his airway. They handcuffed him on the ground. He laid there, non-responsive, for 2 minutes and 23 seconds. He was transported to the hospital with his wrists and ankles restrained to the stretcher so that he could not move. The hospital kept Mr. Clark overnight to monitor his heart, which was not well due to the tasing causing elevated troponin levels throughout. On Memorial Day, he began vomiting blood. The day after that, he had a stroke. He was never charged with any crime.
Mr. Clark, a proud father of two and grandfather of seven, enjoyed a rich, happy, independent life prior to this event. On May 30, 2021, that life was recklessly and deliberately obliterated by the Idaho Springs Police Department. Now, 8 weeks later, he remains in a 24-hour complex nursing care facility, awaiting heart surgery. He has yet to go home to his own bed and his 2 beloved cats, Marbles and Gracie. The Idaho Springs Police Department stripped him of his independence, his security and his health.
His sole objective in the time he has left is to do whatever it takes to ensure this horrific abuse of a citizen by police does not happen again. That task begins by exposing the truth, and demanding change. With everything he has left, Mr. Clark does so today.
