[Mad Dawg]

It sounds like the writer went largely on her lawyer's approach to the thing. To describe tasering somebody as "trying to electrocute" him is tendentious at best. Also I can imagine somebody confusing the acetone like smell from somebody in ketosis with the smell you often get from alcohol abusers.

Having said that, I don't see any justification for tasering her. We pretty much have to suspect a weapon and/or be getting a lot of belligerent behavior before our SOP calls for a taser.

[robertpaulsen]

"Having said that, I don't see any justification for tasering her.

She could have just killed her children and was suicidal. She crashed her car, and is sitting there in an unresponsive catatonic state.

She has a gun in her lap, but is afraid to use it on herself. So she chooses suicide by cop and makes the decision to shoot at the police officer as soon as he gets close.

Nah. Could never happen. What are the odds?

You're right. The cop should just ignore procedure and help the poor woman. WE know it's OK (now that it's over, of course).