Interesting Info: Iman Morales

Iman Morales fell to his death after being tasered by police, he was said to be posing a threat to police swinging a light tube at them.

The New York Police Department all but admitted Thursday that Iman Morales should not have been stunned with a Taser gun, a jolt of 5,000 volts that incapacitated the naked, emotionally disturbed man as he plunged to his death, falling face first from a store ledge in Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn.

Olga Negron, mother of Iman Morales, is consoled by sons Danny and Jesse Hernandez during Tuesday’s funeral service in Greenwich Village.

Update: A cop involved in the taser incident has killed himself, see the highlight for details.

The NYPD quickly admitted that Emergency Service police should not have used a Taser on him while he was on a ledge, and two cops were disciplined.

Update: A cop involvled in the taser incident has killed himself, see this page for the latest taser news updated in real-time.

NEW YORK — A police lieutenant committed suicide Thursday, days after he ordered another officer to fire a stun gun at a naked, distraught man who then fell to his death, police said.

“Hopefully his death will make a difference,” she said, weeping.

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The officers involved in the Wednesday afternoon confrontation elite Emergency Services Unit officers trained in Taser use had no game plan in place for what to do once Morales was stunned, police said.

Lieutenant Michael Pigott, who ordered the fatal Tasering of an emotionally disturbed person, killed himself this morning.

The Brooklyn District Attorney’s office, meanwhile, has asked that the NYPD not interview Pigott or the officer both of whom have been assigned to Emergency Services since 2002 until it has completed its review.

A naked man standing on a fire escape and, later, a storefont, fell to his death after a police officer stunned him with a Taser.

Police fired a Taser at a naked Brooklyn man armed with only a fluorescent light tube yesterday, sending him falling to his death from a second-floor ledge after he went on a 40-minute rant.

Members of the community had questioned the officers’ handling of yesterday afternoon’s incident – which was caught on amateur video.

Morales, 35, was killed last week when he fell from a 10-foot-high ledge outside his Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, apartment after a cop shot him with a Taser.

Browne also said two ESU cops the lieutenant in charge of the operation and the officer who followed the lieutenant’s order and used the weapon on Morales are now being investigated because departmental guidelines clearly state that “when possible, the should not be used… in situations where the subject may fall from an elevated surface.”

Diagnosed with bipolar disorder, Morales became unhinged after his medication was changed, relatives said, and he clambered onto his fire escape, naked and raving.

WABC 7 reports “Pigott reported to Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, where he took his life shortly after 6 a.m.”

When he stepped out of his third-story apartment and onto the fire escape he was naked, police and witnesses say, and he was talking about wanting to die.

Police also said he had emotional problems and may not have been taking his medication, please wait for the 3 videos below to load.

The brother, Jesse Hernandez, 21, was incredulous that police did nothing to break Morales’ fall from the narrow ledge above a store awning.

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The NYPD says the use of a Conducted Energy Device, commonly known as a Taser, on a man who ultimately fell to his death from a Brooklyn building appears to have violated department guidelines, and that the officer involved has been placed on modified duty.

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The body of Lt. Michael Pigott, a 21-year police veteran, was found in a police locker room at a former airfield in Brooklyn, dead apparently of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, said Paul Browne, deputy commissioner for public information.

Based on video and witness reports, Iman Morales, 35, was wielding a fluorescent light bulbs at cops who tried to get close.

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