Once again, lazy/incompetent cops think the Taser is an electric squirt gun, not, as intended, a weapon to be used only when you think you need to kill the guy.
Um...
Not enough details. He could have looked like he was going for a gun - in which case, would you have preferred that the cop empty the magazine of his regular firearm into the teen? Because that's the only other alternative in such a case.
I think we'll find that this kid was high on drugs and had a heart defect.
Seems to me that unless he was threatening someone directly that this may be a case of ineptitude, at least based on what is in this particular story.
Someone who's acting strange, can be doing so for a number of reasons, menengitis, injury, mental illness, etc etc etc... It doesn't sound like the teen was threatening anyone directly, just acting strangely and ignoring the officers. Seems keeping folks away and handling it better than just force would have been more appropriate.
Sounds like the cops needlessly escalated the situation because someone didn't 'respect their authoritay."
Who knows what happened, I'm sure the facts will come out, maybe he was threatening others, but unless he was, it doesn't seem like the type of situation a taser would be called for.
"Once again, lazy/incompetent cops think the Taser is an electric squirt gun, not, as intended, a weapon to be used only when you think you need to kill the guy."
This is another unintended consequence of feminism. In the old days, cops were expected to be physically competent to subdue suspects without deadly force, unless the suspect was wielding a deadly weapon himself.
In the old days they might have just wrestled him to the ground, or perhaps bopped him with night sticks a few times, and in all probability there would have been no fatality.
Now, though, you have to let biddy widdle bunny slippers girlywirls pretend that they're harness bulls, and this is the kind of crap you get.
And no, it doesn't matter whether there were any babes in uniform on this arrest or not. The changes are institutional and pervasive, extending to written procedures.