I am unsure how close an officer must get to a suspect to use a taser? If it is relatively close... couldn’t that have risked the officer more than shooting this guy? My point is that from the article... it seems like the suspect was very mobile. If one officer, for example, tried to move in closer to taze him.. he would then be in the “line of fire” from the other officers. (thus, risking his own life in attempting to taze).
The range is 35 feet. Pepper spray maxes out at 20 feet, but the effect at maximum range is severely attenuated for the same reason that spray deodorant isn't generally applied from yards away. Tasers are just as effective at maximum range, since the juice has to go through all those wires anyway. If you're close enough to pepper spray someone, you're close enough to taser him.
If it is relatively close... couldn’t that have risked the officer more than shooting this guy?
35 feet or less.
Yes.
Hey mom!!!
I don’t believe most people understand these types of situations. An officer, especially the ones who work the ghetto, face on a daily basis.
It’s very easy for us, sitting here in the safety of our protected homes to judge those whom put themselves in harms way on a daily basis.
I always say “thank goodness it’s them and not me. I DO NOT have the courage to stand up against evil on a daily basis and am grateful there are those who do”.