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Updated 09/26/2008 10:00 AM

Vigil Held For Tased Brooklyn Man

By: NY1 News

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A Brooklyn woman joined community activists at a vigil Thursday to remember her son who died from a fall after police tased him.

Community members held a vigil on Thursday and expressed outrage at how the NYPD handled the situation.

Inman Morales, 35, was standing naked on the edge of his Bedford-Stuyvesant building waving an eight-foot-long florescent light bulb when police shot him with a stun gun.

Morales fell face-first to his death and the whole thing was caught on amateur video.

Morales' mother said she wishes she was allowed to help her son, adding the doctors had recently switched his medication.

"This was the outcome, but God, he was only there, nobody came to help him,” said Olga Negron. “Why, they won't let me in to help him? I just want justice because he was a good kid. He was good to his brothers, he was good to me."

Police said Thursday that the incident violated department guidelines, acknowledging none of the officers tried to break Morales' fall.

The lieutenant who told the officer to use the stun gun was stripped of his gun and badge while the officer was assigned to desk duty.

"We're not going with the slap-on-the-wrist, that you took them and put them behind a desk or modified duty," said community activist Sharonee Perry. "They're still collecting a paycheck, but this woman doesn't have a son."

Meanwhile, the medical examiner performed an autopsy Thursday but had not yet released a toxicology report.