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If you read the other articles linked to, you will find that the taser was in drive or stune mode, not full mode. He would have been able to comply with the order to stand and not been physically incapacitated.

"If you read the other articles linked to, you will find that the taser was in drive or stune mode, not full mode. He would have been able to comply with the order to stand and not been physically incapacitated."

I read the other article. You don't know what effect the taser had on him, and neither did the UCP. The fact that he fell to the ground afterwords would argue that he couldn't stand. Even if he could stand and was faking, the UCP had no way of knowing that. He could have been an epileptic, or physically handicapped in any number of ways.

My only point is, unless someone is posing a threat to others, tasering someone who is lying on the ground looks a lot like torture. The UCP needs to chill out and not let themselves be drawn into confrontation so easily. By all accounts this guy was leaving, just not fast enough for the UCP.

Were they so busy they did not have the time to follow along behind and make sure he left with out man handling him and tasering him? How much better would that have been than what they did?

If you read the other articles linked to, you will find that the taser was in drive or stune mode, not full mode. He would have been able to comply with the order to stand and not been physically incapacitated.

please repost that link - I don't see it in the original article. Also according to what I've read, drive stun mode describes the delivery mode - direct contact instead of using a dart - not a lesser shock.

From taser's web site: "TASER-induced strong muscle contractions usually render a subject temporarily unable to control his or her psychomotor movements. "