you totaly miss the point. law enforcement isnt about swinging your big ego around.
its about skillfully handling the public and keeping situations in the right key, not escalating. the best cops are really good at this. 99.999999% of what a cop does is with people skills, this guy has none.
this guy is a loser who cant handle being challenged, threat to his manhood. worst conceiveable guy to have dealing with the public while armed,
i dont know if the Utah regs will allow what he did. I do know he isnt the guy who should be a cop. thats for sure.
You're referring to the belligerent ass that got pulled over, right?
Exactly. Looking over my posts on this, Freepers might get idea I approve of what the cop did. I don't, I just think it was legal, and that a guy who behaves the way this suspect did ought to be glad that all he got was tasered.
Some years ago I took over a prosecutor's position that had been basically vacant for several months. Among the stack of cases waiting for me to review were a number of resisting arrest cases. I found out, after I got through the entire backlog, that one officer had filed half of the all the resisting arrest cases on the docket.
Videos existed for these cases, and they were, technically, good cases. The arrest was valid, the suspects did resist arrest, and the officer, although sometimes harsh in his tone, did not do anything that violated the suspect's rights.
But the guy just came across as an arrogant, belligerent, jerk, and a number of suspects, especially good ole boys who had had three or four too many, when told "You are under arrest, put your hands on hood of the car" decided that they would rather ball up their fists and fight than do what he said.
Nine times out ten, another officer, one with good people skills, would not have had trouble arresting the same suspect, for the same thing, at the same time.