"Police asked him to get down," Su'e's nephew,
Uli Toomalatai, said. "He didn't listen (because he was) mentally ill, and they Tasered him. He went down, and after that they started kicking him."
Other witnesses told The Times that Su'e did not fight with the officers, but that when they got out of their squad car they hit his leg with their batons, Tasered him until he was on his stomach, and then one of the officers shot him up to six times in the back.
"As soon as the (police) car comes, the door is already half-way open and the man jumps out with his billy club. It was like they were already ready to come out and attack him and they didn't even know who he was,"
Chrystal Pagota, 23, one of those whose birthday was being celebrated, told the newspaper.
clipped from: www.knbc.com