His career should be over. From what I saw he never told the gentleman that if he doesn’t sign it then he is obligated to arrest him. He never said he was under arrest and the guy never really knew what was going on. He refused to sign the ticket and should have been advised as to the consequences of not signing it (i.e. arrest) and allowed to make a more informed decision. This particular trooper had a bad day and decided to take it out on an unsuspecting individual. The trooper had no compunction ordering him out of the car after the gentleman refused to sign the ticket. Where was the “you will be placed under arrest if you don’t”?
I get a kick out of the defenders of this and other stories like it that people seem to want to defend. In this case he put people’s lives at risk by tasering him into busy traffic. What about the protecting and serving of lives from those oncoming vehicles with families, the pregnant wife, the guy he tased?
All for a speeding ticket in questionable beginning circumstances?
This officer has to go find another line of work. Like at McDonalds where he can take my order.
According to some, the cop had no legal requirement to announce an arrest. The citizen was tazered for noncompliance with an order to submit, and legally had to comply, period.
Do you disagree that the law supports the cop in this case, and not the citizen?