Stanley James William (Stan) Harlan

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Husband Stanley James William (Stan) Harlan

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           Born: 1984
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           Died: 28 Aug 2008 - Moberly, Randolph County, MO
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         Father: Darrell Lee Harlan
         Mother: Athena Yvonne Baum

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General Notes: Husband - Stanley James William (Stan) Harlan

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from Glenn Gohr

https://www.columbiatribune.com/feedec30-02a8-5765-bc4e-21a486127419.html

Stanley “Stan” James William Harlan, 23, of Moberly died Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008, in Moberly.

Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 1, at Cater Funeral Home Chapel with interment at Mount Shiloh Cemetery near Darksville. Visitation will be from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home.

Survivors include son Brayson Harlan of Higbee; parents Athena Bachtel and Darrell Harlan, both of Moberly; grandparents; a brother and sister; other relatives; and friends.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIP_KbYBNEY

MOBERLY - Stanley Harlan died after an early morning altercation with Moberly Police.

Moberly Police tasered the 23-year-old twice.

Police said Harlan was resisting arrest for suspicion of drunk driving when an officer tased him.

Police also said Harlan soon became unresponsive and died at Moberly Regional Medical Center around 2 a.m.

Today, family members gathered at the victim's home to express their grief, sorrow, and outrage at an incident they said was police brutality at its worst.

Harlan's mother cried, "I just want him home, I just want him to go home."

Harlan's family and friends said Moberly Police are to blame for their tears.

"I lost my youngest son, Stanley James William Harlan, who was twenty-three years old, because of the horrible excessive force the Moberly Police Department used to murder my son," said Athena Harlan.

Family members and witnesses said Harlan was tased twice, the second time while handcuffed, by police during a traffic stop. But Moberly Police said they tased Harlan once to stop his resisting arrest, and a second time briefly to finish handcuffing him.

Witnesses said after Harlan was tased twice by police officers, he was dragged to this curb where he lay awaiting help.

Harlan's mother, who said she witnessed the whole incident from her lawn, said her son was not resisting arrest.

"They said he was resisting arrest. Stan said no I'm not no I'm not. He was just standing there. The other officer yelled get the taser, get the taser," she said.

After the tasering, Harlan's mother said police saw there was something wrong.

"They pulled him up and said, 'Stanley, stand up, you're all right," said Athena Harlan.

Police said they called an ambulance, but witnesses said they paid more attention to Harlan's car than his condition.

Harlan's mother said police wouldn't allow her to perform CPR on her son at the scene, and another witness said they let him die in the gutter.

Police also adamantly defended the actions of their officers.

Moberly Commander Kevin Palmatory said he believes the officers acted properly because they had not gotten a chance to search Harlan before he was tazed.

The Columbia Police Department has had its own controversy over taser use.

This summer police used tasers on two men, but neither case was fatal.

Interim Columbia Police Chief Tom Dresner said what happened in Moberly this morning was very tragic and the hearts of Columbia police officers go out to Harlan's family and the Moberly police officer involved.

But as of now the Columbia Police Department's use of tasers will not change.

"Taser are a safe device to use so we are going to watch the situation until we have factual medical and scientific evidence as cause of death and at that point we will possibly reconsider, but at this point everything is going as it is," Dresner said.

Mary Hussmann, a representative of Grass Roots Organization, said the events that happened in Moberly this morning are an example of why the Columbia Police Department should take a second look at how and when they should use tasers.

GRO says it will be filing a resolution opposing police use of tasers with the columbia city council next week. GRO has gathered 500 signatures in the last five days.

https://www.columbiatribune.com/3d6e05b7-4c42-5c5a-b7fe-edfdbe61c5cf.html

Moberly settles in Taser death

The city of Moberly yesterday agreed to an indefinite moratorium on the use of Tasers and will pay $2.4 million to survivors of a man who died after police shocked him with one.

Stanley Harlan, 23, died in August after Moberly police officers used the device on him three times during a stop for suspected drunken driving. His family settled their lawsuit against the city in U.S. District Court in St. Louis.

Stephen Ryals, lead attorney for Harlan’s mother, Athena Bachtel, Harlan’s 1-year-old son and other family members, said the settlement was “not enough” but was as good as could be expected.

“It’s all the money that we were likely to ever recover,” Ryals said. “And given that Stanley’s son is going to have his whole life without the support of his father, we felt very strongly it would be irresponsible to gamble that kind of resource available for his son in the hopes of getting some greater good.”

Moberly had $2.5 million available to it in insurance protection, Ryals said. That total is what is called a “spend-down policy,” where every dollar spent on legal defense subtracts from a potential award.

“We got every penny we could reasonably get in this case,” said Ryals, who left open the possibility of a suit against Taser International Inc., of Scottsdale, Ariz., which made the device.

Harlan was tased three times after arguing with officers during a traffic stop just yards from his home as friends and family watched in horror. Harlan lost consciousness and died a short time later. Authorities have said he was suspected of drunken driving, but a statement from his family’s lawyers said he was accused of speeding.

Moberly city officials said in a news release that no fault was admitted in the settlement.

“It is never the goal or desire of any police officer to cause or contribute to the death of any person,” the release said. “Mr. Harlan’s death was certainly unanticipated and unintentional.”

An investigation by a special prosecutor that concluded in January found the police officers involved in the incident were not criminally liable for Harlan’s death.

The moratorium on Taser use will continue until two town hall meetings are held and Moberly police issue a revised Taser policy. The city also has agreed to assign at least one automatic external defibrillator to an on-duty patrol unit and require additional training on topics including recognizing and responding to medical distress.

The Taser device involved in the incident will not be reused.

Mary Hussmann, a member of Grass Roots Organizing, has closely followed the case and called for restrictions on Taser use both in Moberly and Columbia. She said she hopes the Moberly case serves as a lesson to all officers.

“It would really be helpful for every police officer to follow this case from beginning to end and see what happens when you do not treat this potentially lethal weapon with the respect it needs to have,” she said.

Dan Viets, general counsel to the Mid-Missouri chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, said the ultimate pressure in these cases often comes from insurance companies that tell a city or police department to restrict Taser use to avoid future liability.

“They don’t want to go on paying additional awards like this,” he said.

This year, the city of Columbia began retraining officers on Taser use and adopted Police Executive Research Forum standards for Taser deployment. These standards dictate that only one officer should use a Taser at a time and that he or she should refrain from using multiple electric blasts to subdue a suspect when possible.

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