[seowulf]

Another REAL problem is police departments wanting cops to taser first, ask questions later.

I could tell from watching the video that this woman could not be in any way considered a threat to the officers. It seems that some police are out to punish the drunk driver. That is not their job. Society has so demonized the drunk driver that it is now consider OK to torture them a little when they're taken in. I'm not defending drunk driving. They should be held accountable to the full extent of the law. Most drunk drivers are not evil, however. Most simply made a single bad decision.

[Cap'n Crunch]

I would check to see what the department use of force policy is. This officer may have very well been following his departmental procedure TO THE LETTER.

And still get sued.

Because, some police departments do not want their officers putting their hands on people. They want them tazered after verbal commands do not work.

The way things are going, police officers will not be able to use any force at all, of any kind, for fear of lawsuits.

Even in this case, if the woman is having a medical emergency, she was in the car, refusing to open the door. The window was broken and she had to be taken out of the car forcefully.

Regardless if it was a tazer or an arm bar or tickling her tootsies with a feather, she had to be taken out, either for arrest or for medical treatment.

In my opinion, this is a lawyer looking for money on something which at first glance looks heinous.

But it wasn't.