Bruin Tasered

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Pssh Stryker...are you trying to say...that a person of caucasian ethnicity had racist actions performed against him/her? That sir, is impossible. It's not like the Jews have endured severe persecution for the past __ thousand years...

[Kyle Berggren]

The kicking, & giant scream, at the top of the stairs appears to be from the tazer, not simply resisting arrest. I agree with 90% of the points made here, people with guns are "Sir," police do a job that is under-appreciated (much like officials) but needs to be done, a few bad apples ruin it for everyone (much like officials), etc.

If two officers find it necessary to use a tazer on me when I'm handcuffed, I'll see them at trial. They ARE trained on how to move people in custody, even when "go limp." From speaking with a few Sheriff friends, they have multiple options for moving someone resisting in that manner, with several learned in training. They can understand why they did what they did, but would never make that choice.

The officers had many choices on how to move the then prisoner, & if you picture s sliding scale of choices, they chose to use excruciating pain at the far right of that scale. I believe that's why so many of us are up in arms. The way they acted is at best a grey area. It would be tough to argue every situation with a prisoner going limp should be handled in that universal way. I've got very little knowledge on the Geneva Convention, but I doubt we're allowed treat Iraqi POW's that way when they go limp & won't move to another location.

As far as the mob asking for badge numbers while they are trying to move the prisoner, that is in fact resisting passively by going limp, it's the wrong time. I wish the response would have been, sure, let us stop what we're doing, take a break & write them down for you.

[Danny Hogan]

on all the old episodes of cops they get people to move by pepper spraying them while they are cuffed