This is what I posted in another reply:
“There are too many armchair quarterbacks on this thread for me. People have the luxury of watching the video 10 times making judgement calls when the police had literally seconds to make their decisions. I am not a police supporter in abuse cases, but as I’ve said 100 times, police are not obligated to get their asses beat, get shot, or get stabbed as a condition of their employment. If you decide to use force against a police officer you should expect overwhelming force in return. That’s just how it works.”
Some posters were even questioning why a taser wasn’t used. These people need to do some serious research on street survival because they don’t know as much as they think they do.
Tazers were probably not available to these officers as there was a Tazing death earlier this year (just a couple of months ago) in that jurisdiction. SOP for many departments after such a thing happens is to suspend use of the Tazer until reviews can be completed.
So no Tazers.