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When was he threatening the safety of anybody? It has never been a requirement that someone be threatening the safety of anyone else before force is allowed on the part of police officers. Force is permitted when people fail to reasonably comply with lawful commands from law enforcement. The officers gave him multiple, repeated, and completely legal commands and he repeatedly refused, all in his pathetic quest to intentionally create 'news' and to gain fame for himself

Yet you still think he needed to be tased.

Actually no, I think that he should have been tased and then dragged outside and beaten bloody because he was being such an insufferable little prick.

But that would not have made for good video, and so I remain in awe of the amazing restraint, superb professionalism and minimal force used by the officers.

Yes, obviously the jackboots played on.

Only in the imaginations of those who don't have a real-world perspective on how similar incidents are dealt with virtually anyplace else on Earth.

“When was he threatening the safety of anybody? Yet you still think he needed to be tased.”

I am no apologist for jackbooted cops. I think the feminaization of the culture has us a loooong way down the road toward jackbooted oppression BUT: What kind of faggot, making his point in this sort of situation thinks he is justified in fighting with the cops? In that situation I would have shouted out my points and let the cops haul me off (shouting). If you fight someone you are demonstrating your willingness to harm them in the service of your point

On the other hand, if I am sitting home minding my business and a sheriff pulls up and informs me that I am under arrest because my 3yr old, after a day at the beach, has a sunburn (this actually happened) THAT officer will be informed that no one is being arrested, no kid is being taken away from me and ‘are you, officer, on a hill, upon which, you are willing to die?

Fighting with cops who are merely doing their job is not an American right, and it isn’t terribly manly (or bright). The taseing, of course, probably flows more from the fact that many cops today are not physically able to wrestle with an adult male.