Did you watch the video? They must have told him to stand up a dozen times and he refused. Each refusal is a new misdemeanor.
Obviously since no less than a half dozen cops were there by the time he got tazed, he was not cooperating. He was resisting.
Are you a first year law student or an anarchist?
I think the cops should have used their glocks after the first command was not followed. That way, there is no time for cell phone videos or crowd's to gather. That would also minimize "copy cat" offenders...
He was leaving before the cops got there. When they came on the scene he was leaving as instructed. Had they let him leave there would be no story.
Once they committed battery they were the criminals. You keep ignoring those facts.
Did you watch the video? They must have told him to stand up a dozen times and he refused. Each refusal is a new misdemeanor. Obviously since no less than a half dozen cops were there by the time he got tazed, he was not cooperating. He was resisting.
Someone who was tazered may not be "refusing" but probably is unable to stand up. And each repeated shock would make it worse. An officer who understood what tazers do wouldn't request that he stand and then shock him again. I have to conclude they didn't understand the effects of the tazer.