Allow me to explain.
YOU MISSED PLENTY.
Did you hear the officer ask the young man for LICENSE and REGISTRATION?
Did you hear the young man’s reply?
(If the new ‘shortened’ version of the video doesn’t contain this, I apologize)
The young man refused to SIGN the citation. Now, what happens when you REFUSE to sign a TICKET?????
Do you think the cops just walk back to their car, and go, “Well, that guy was too smart for us!”
The officer told him to STAY WHERE HE WAS,and yet the man walked right past the officer and headed directly for the police cruiser (which usually contains a shortened SHOTGUN).
IF YOU were standing there, trying to keep an eye on him, the person(s) in his vehicle, and search for contraband, would you want him within reach of a SHAWED OFF SHOTGUN?????
If you say yes, please change your FREEPER NAME to DEAD-Fighter.
When? When did the officer tell the guy to stay where he was? This officer made so many mistakes on this stop it's not even funny, the most glaring of which was that he told the guy to get out of the car, then proceeded to turn his back on the guy and acted surprised when the guy was right behind him when he turned back around. But he NEVER told the guy to "stay where you are" prior to pulling the taser on the guy.
I support the police, as you will see in another post, my brother was a 15 year member of Asheville PD. But I don't BLINDLY support the police, and I can see when an officer has crossed the line. This was most definitely such a case.