Stungun Police Officer Commits Suicide
A week ago, PoliGazette reported that two police officers killed a naked man, who had lost his mind, when they tasered him. He fell off the building he was standing on, and died.
This was a sad story, but it becomes even sadder. One of the officers responsible for the man’s death committed suicide on Thursday.
Lt. Michael Pigott, a 21-year police veteran, used a gun that was not his to kill himself. He was found dead in a police locker room at a former airfield in Brooklyn, New York, CNN reported on Friday.
Pigott was the officer who ordered another office to fire a stun gun at the naked man a week ago. ‘The man, Iman Morales, fell 10 feet to his death as onlookers screamed. An onlooker’s video of the encounter was seen on news stations and posted on the Web.’
Department officials immediately said that the two officers had abused their stun gun. The two men were punished; their badge was taken from them, as were their gun. On Wednesday Pigott apologized to Morales mother saying he was “truly sorry.”
Thursday was Pigott’s 46th birthday.
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