Cop Who Ordered Tasering of Nude Brooklyn Man Kills Himself!!!!!!!

by **J The Kidd** Fri Oct 03, 2008 4:22 pm

According to the NYPOST:

The cop whose order to use a Taser turned deadly took his own life
yesterday - his 46th birthday and the day of the victim's funeral -
saying he felt he had "disgraced his family," police said.

Lt. Michael Pigott was found at around 6 a.m. in the third-floor locker
room of Emergency Service Unit headquarters in Brooklyn with a single,
self-inflicted gunshot wound to his head, police said.

Pigott had been stripped of his badge and gun since Iman Morales toppled to his death after being Tasered on Sept. 24.

The cop went into the HQ building at Floyd Bennett Field at around 4
a.m. and broke into a colleague's locker, taking a 9 mm Glock handgun.

He placed photos of his wife, Susan, and three children around himself
and sat staring out the window at Jamaica Bay for some time before
taking his own life, sources said.

When he was found, a suicide note lay by his side in which he
apologized to his family and expressed remorse for how Morales died.

"He didn't want his family to see him cuffed up and jailed," said a
source familiar with the contents of the note. "The guy felt he
disgraced his family."

Pigott - a 21-year NYPD veteran with an unblemished record - also took
full responsibility for Morales' death and urged police officials "not
to blame the other officer," whom he had ordered to fire the Taser.

Pigott was placed on modified duty following the incident. He had
ordered Morales - who was standing nude atop a security gate in
Bedford-Stuyvesant about 10 feet above the ground - to be Tasered when
the mentally ill man began waving an 8-foot-long fluorescent light tube.

After being jolted, Morales toppled head-first onto the pavement,
landing with a sickening thud as his mother and dozens of other
witnesses watched. He later died from head injuries. The horrifying
episode was captured on videotape and in photographs that were then
widely broadcast.