yes but the results clear quickly once the current stops.
Please provide a link to how fast most people are able to stand afterward. Also, are there outliers, and what percentage are unable to stand after 3, 5, or 10 minutes? I'm not sure how long the video lasted, but I don't think it was more than 10 minutes, and supposedly the offender was tasered 5 times.
The bottom line is that I haven't been able to find anything definitive on how fast most people recover, so I still question whether this guy could simply stand up after being tasered. From the medical literature, I know that tasers aren't as "safe" as many make them out to be. They are a good choice for many situations, a great alternative to deadly force in certain cases, but not for casual use.
"Please provide a link to how fast most people are able to stand afterward. Also, are there outliers, and what percentage are unable to stand after 3, 5, or 10 minutes?"
He was able to scream and shout. That involves muscles to reach the volume this guy did reach. Its also posted elsewhere that the tazors were set on "motivate" and not "stun" they would have had less impact.
Here is a nice video to watch. It is a Marine considered to be the toughest guy alive. Listen to what he says about being tasered at the end:
http://www.dump.com/ufmre/
"I have never been hit with something like that, that could knock me on my ass and I can't continue to do anything but just lay there like a little baby"
http://www.dump.com/vhvpe/
ANother good video to watch. There are a couple of people (not sure if they are police or not) who took two shots and rode the full 5 seconds and got right back up.
So basically the taser itself hurts like hell, but the effects seem rather short lived.
So I guess you could argue that there is no reason why he could not have gotten back up right away and comply with their request. However, I still feel using this type of force to make a person comply when you have not tried other options is abusive. I'm not saying this student didn't deserve it, however I have seen many other techniques work just as well. It's not like this kid was armed or swinging at police, he was simply not complying with requests.