She brought the action on herself by not following th command of the officer...it was by the book 100%
You're trolling, right? There's nothing else this guy could have done?
You, along with most cops and former cops, are a dick. When tazers first came out, they were supposed to be used as substitues for deadly force, reducing the situstions in which a cop might fire his gun. Instead, they started to be used to "gain compliance" in situations where an officer's safety was never at risk. Essentially, legalized torture if you don't jump to a cop's liking. Prior to tazers, it wasn't okay for a cop to hit you with his billy club if you were mouthing off at him or not moving fast enough unless his safety was at risk... what's changed? We've created a totalitarian police state by allowing this bullshit. You're old enough to remember a time when things were different, so you know what I'm talking about.
Good post. Police seem much too quick to reach for this tool. The cops in these tazer vids always have in common the fact that their idea of psychological manipulation consists solely of turning up the volume. When is the last time shouting at someone made them calmer? And none of these guys seem to know how to immobilize, incapacitate, or maneuver someone without a tazer when a confrontation gets physical. Is Mahoney running the academy these days or what? When cops use the tazer as something more than a strictly defensive weapon, people are going to view it as a weapon of attack or torture and be more inclined to take defensive action of their own.
