45 second record from pullover tasering - Austin Texas

[Asher]

If I ever take a road trip to the deep south, I'll be sure to wear a rubber (suit...)

[ZEE]

this thread is in desperate need of an AAHZ post...

I fully cooperate with the law

there you go.

[Asher]

Originally posted by AAHZ
this thread is in desperate need of an AAHZ post...

[ZEE]

sorry

carry on please...

[Addled Platypus]

Originally posted by Wernazuma III


edit: we need a tazer smilie, like this one:

with a santa hat

rotflol

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Aeson
The time to argue your case is in court. Not on the side of a highway with tons of metal passing by at 65mph. Stop endangering officers' lives needlessly, then complain to me about a taser.

Yay, another case of "tasers are alright as long as the suspect did anything wrong"

[Donegeal]

Originally posted by Ninot
The part I don't understand is how an aggressive step deserves tasering? If the guy is obviously unarmed, couldn't the cop manhandle him, or atleast attempt to?

The part I don't understand is why people think that when fighting with a cop, you deserve a chance at winning.

The guy was a big dude. There is no garuntee that if they went hands on the cop would win. So why take the chance?

[Spec]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
Wezil: The fact that the officer was suspended seems to be because the video got out. IA saw no need for action.

Yea, but its you. No surprise there.

Spec.

[Arrian]

I think cops are too quick to use their fancy new toy, but I must agree with Donegeal & Aeson that when the cops asks for your documentation, you effing provide it - you don't sit their and argue with him.

That being said:

1. I can't see the video, because I'm at work.
2. From the posts in this thread, it definitely sounds like the cop was out of line.

-Arrian

[Sirotnikov]

Originally posted by Donegeal
The part I don't understand is why people think that when fighting with a cop, you deserve a chance at winning.

The guy was a big dude. There is no garuntee that if they went hands on the cop would win. So why take the chance?

Obviously that big guy was planning to jump on the cop and beat him to a bloody pulp.

Didn't you see it from the aggressive way he said "hey" and "wait a minute" and "why are you doing this?"

[Donegeal]

He took an aggressive step towards the officer. If I were in that situation, I'd have done the same thing.

Make a move, make even a hint of a move at that point, and .

Like I'm (or any cop) going to want to fight in a situation like that.

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by Donegeal
Make a move, make even a hint of a move at that point, and .

Considering that tasers have never ever killed anyone before, this is a reasonable position.

[Kontiki]

Come on everybody - you should know by now that the taser is a tool to be used by cops when threre's the slightest chance of an inconvenience or mild annoyance. Cops should never have to try to talk through a situation, or ever deal with anyone who doesn't goose step into line. I look forward to the day that every routine traffic stop is handled by a cop walking up to the vehicle, immediately tasering the occupant and dragging them out of their car. Instant compliance - why wait for a situation to possibly escalate at all?

[Asher]

Originally posted by Donegeal
The part I don't understand is why people think that when fighting with a cop, you deserve a chance at winning.

Need I remind you who you serve? Yes, society needs police officers, but in the end you serve the person you dehumanize by calling a "subject".

It's about using judgment, and it was used poorly here.

[Donegeal]

Originally posted by LordShiva


Considering that tasers have never ever killed anyone before, this is a reasonable position.

Someone posted it in the other thread, but there have been something like 214 deaths after someone got tasered. Of those 214 deaths, I believe something like 12 actually involved the Tazer in the cause of death.

Now I don't have the numbers, but I would guess that the Tazer has been used on people something in the realm of over 1,000,000 times (I'm talking about number of times used in the entire world). So that works out to be about 0.000012%. Our hypothetical stapler from the last discussion is almost as deadly and I do consider it a reasonable position.