[aQ_code_initiate]

Police should have (or abide by) "rules of engagement" for using their tasers.

Absolutely! The taser was "sold" on police departments to deal with people cranked up on PCP and immune to baton blows, not to zap anyone who doesn't snap his heels together fast enough. There was no reason the cops could not simply have taken the cell phone away from her. If she resisted, then there are various techniques they could have used to deal with her, none involving the use of batons, guns or tasers.

[car par]

Yeah they could have used other techniques then she would be crying about that.

[TChris]

Absolutely! The taser was "sold" on police departments to deal with people cranked up on PCP and immune to baton blows, not to zap anyone who doesn't snap his heels together fast enough. There was no reason the cops could not simply have taken the cell phone away from her. If she resisted, then there are various techniques they could have used to deal with her, none involving the use of batons, guns or tasers.

Yeah, now it seems LEOs will Taser anybody who doesn't practically fall to the ground and handcuff themselves. So many of todays officers are way too concerned about "avoiding personal injury"; they'll use the Taser at the least sign of resistence, or less. Pathetic.

[sweetliberty]

"The taser was "sold" on police departments to deal with people cranked up on PCP and immune to baton blows, not to zap anyone who doesn't snap his heels together fast enough"

Exactly.

[Ceewrighter]

I saw an officer taser a man because he didn't want to talk to him. He simply pulled the taser wires off, threw it back to the officer and ran faster than the officer did. The man was innocent and it was the funniest thing I saw last summer.

[ArmyTeach]

Question. Somewhere along the line she has a right to call her lawyer and the police can not prevent her from doing so. At what point does that right kick in? Any legal reaons why she should not call from her car?