Officer Fired For Helping Suicidal Student Instead of TasingAmanda Warren Jeff Solomon, president of Statewide University Police Association (SUPA) reports that the unidentified corporal a 20-year veteran officer is on leave and faces getting fired. The officer worked at the campus for 8 years. He had responded to the suicidal student in February by deescalating and calming the student, then giving him water at the students request. Thats before the three Marina officers arrived at the scene at the dorm and took matters into their own hands. The Marina officers who arrived on the scene began tasing (an already calmed?) student in a dorm that contained a knife and hammer, not in his hands. They claimed to have seen blood and a singed sweater. Marina Police Chief Edmundo Rodriguez said the student, By indiscriminately tasing Furthermore, the Marina department lodged a formal complaint against the university officer for failure to act and claimed he just stood there. Solomon commented: Worse yet, the officers tried to get the campus officer to join them in their Taser games Solomon adds: Marina Department claims he froze. But the campus officer didnt see the need for more tasing. The officer has indeed been issued a notice of termination, Monterey Herald reports. This is his first disciplinary offense. The students baffled father said: As of 2012, over 500 Americans have died from the use of Tasers alone. This number may or may not be included in the overall estimate of 500 Americans dying from police force each year over 5,000 since 9/11, a number greater than American soldiers lost in Iraq. Actual numbers will not be revealed. Meanwhile, the number of officers dying in the line of fire has overall, declined. An almost all-time low of 27 officers last year, and an estimate of 50 by the end of this year. In the aftermath of the fatal Eric Garner incident where the only person indicted was the one who filmed it its incredible that an officer is fired for administering help not harm to a college student. Also see: 