Walter was a threat to NOBODY! This officer has a history of using his taser as a means of punishment/torture. How can that be condoned by any civilized person. We have courts to decide the punishment of crime breakers, not cops.
I have been unjustifiably arrested because I was carrying a weapon, it didn't mean anything that I had a concealed carry permit and that the officer didn't know I was carrying until I told him.
A good friend of mine was a police chief in a major metropolitan city. This police chief told me that half of all cops are bad. They take bribes, they take sexual favors from women in leiu of tickets and abuse people they arrest. I doubted him when he told me and thought he was jaded or something. Now that I have lived several decades after his telling me that I realize that he was right.
A good cop may go his entire service time of 20 years or more without ever using his weapon or taser. Being a cop is not a license to kill. Bad cops use tasers and guns over and over again. This is about a bad cop not about a liberal press.
First, you talk about the courts, but convict the officer as abusing his Taser based on hearsay.
Second, if half of all police are crooked, the it is a political problem.....because who controls the police department???? Elected officials.