They had the truck license and registration. I suspect that too many trips to the donught shop rendered them unable to do a normal pursuit on foot.
There are various reasons why they reach for the taser. I suspect laziness and PC compete for the #1 spot.
From what other people said, he was pulled out of the truck immediately after the stop and it went straight to hell from there.
I don’t even know if they took time to run plates.
These are the same people who, when responding to shots fired in the west end of town one night, pulled over all of us on motorcycles instead of going into the urban jungle where the shooter was.
We all got shook down and roughed up.
A grinning psycho threw me face down on his cruiser hood, thoroughly felt me up and then dry humped me while laughing in my husband’s face.
After all that, he just let me go.
A county sheriff gave me the perv’s badge number and name and told me to press charges.
I did.
And guess what happened to the cop.
Exactly nothing.