More to the point. I call your attention to the REAL STORY as found in the San Antonio Express News....
According to Wallace, Darion's father tried to run back into the burning home to save his son but was restrained when he was shot with a Taser by San Antonio police. A spokesman for SAPD said the infant's body had already been discovered, “and the scene was being processed when (the) male tried to forcibly enter the scene.”
Now, its possible the Express News got the story wrong even worse than KENS-TV. But we do know the parents, the cops and the fire department all arrived on the scene AFTER the fire started, and its safe to assume the SAPD is right: The baby was dead and officials knew it. And when a distraught father tried to risk his life in vain - the cops did the right thing as tazed him.
But that makes for a boring TV news story. So what do TV journo-wanna-be's do? EMBELLISH!
The point is that an officer attacked a man panicked at the thought that his child was inside.
Tasers are to be used as an alternative to shooting someone.
Tasers are Not to be used for “crowd control”.
It would seem that the father, at that time, was not aware his son’s body had been recovered.
What was so important to “process” that “We’re so sorry for your loss” could not have been relayed to the child’s parents?