[Cap'n Crunch]

Well, I figure she had to be doing something, either verbal or physical to get tasered. If the cop tasered her and she was just sitting there, unresponsive, then shame on him.

But, like I say, some departments want their officers to use the taser if people are uncooperative with verbal commands.

Our use of taser is a little further down the use of force line. Verbal commands, soft empty hand, then depending on circumstances, stick, spray, hard empty hand or taser.

[FreedomCalls]

But, like I say, some departments want their officers to use the taser if people are uncooperative with verbal commands.

Then those departments need to be on the receiving end of multi-million dollar lawsuits until they change that policy.

[Hardastarboard]

I remember Mas Ayoob's analysis of the Rodney King beating. His take on it (and he is considered an expert witness by the courts, in the truest meaning of the word), was that the way the cops had been trained to use the batakas (T-handled clubs that they carry) was to use them as clubs, not as "come-alongs" or leveraging / force multiplier devices. He very convincingly laid the blame for that beating square at the feet of the police management.

I realized after I read his article that he had it figured exactly right. Officers do what they've been trained to do. If they had been trained properly in the use of that piece of equipment, they wouldn't be in jail right now.