On the other, I've got to wonder about why LEOs are so quick to reach for the taser compared to how they would've dealt with it 20 years or so ago.
Is it because the ranks are being filled with the physically weak, proper gender ratios and other political correct clap-trap? A general deterioration in the training quality? All of the foregoing?
My cousin was not on drugs, ‘frail’ or anything else except scared.
The cops stopped him because his truck looked like a truck that was supposed to have been involved in a burglary and he panicked.
He ran into a cornfield and they followed him, tasing him repeatedly until he stopped.
Unfortunately, he stopped by dropping dead.
An ‘internal investigation’ was conducted and the horde of cops all had the same story.
“He came right at them”.
Witness testimony to the contrary was disregarded.
My cousin was nothing if not a non-violent wuss.
But he’s still dead.
Left behind a young daughter that my aunt had to raise.
Because doing a beat down with a nightstick looks really bad on video. Do away with video cameras and wood shampoos would make a comeback.