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I just saw the video. The cop told him to put his hands behind his back and instead the guy started walking back to his car, even with the cop pointing the taser at him.

The guy deserved to get tasered. And as I watched the rest of the video I was more than convinced.

Note to self: When a cop tells me to turn around, turn around. Especially if he is pointing a weapon at me.

Tasers finally give cops the ability to handle belligerent people without chokeholds, etc.

It is like a phaser set to stun. Cop tells person to turn around, person doesn’t, cop stuns him and cuffs him. Problem solved.

The ticket is completely irrelevent. The guy is an idiot. You don’t have to sign a ticket but you will be taken to jail if you don’t. I always sign them and then deal with them in court - if I am innocent of the ticket.

It is not deadly force and it

Too often police officers have become too reliant on gadgets like tasers. They may be necessary at times, but officers need to rely on their own physical strength more frequently. There have been a few instances of smaller male officers and women officers being overpowered when the taser or pepper spray did not do the job. This is a problem that stems from equal opportunity employment practices.

Note to self: When a cop tells me to turn around, turn around. Especially if he is pointing a weapon at me.

2 questions for you: First - in what direction was the driver facing the first time the officer told him to turn around? Second - in what direction was the driver facing when the officer used the taser on him?

I'll go ahead and answer them for you, so you don't have to bother checking the video, but feel free to check it if you'd like to verify this. When the officer told the driver to turn around, the driver was facing the squad car (facing the direction they had just come from). Almost immediately, the driver TURNED AROUND, and at the point that he was tased, he was facing in the opposite direction from where he was when first told to turn around. Should the driver have stopped in his tracks? Yes, but he was also confused and couldn't understand why the cop was pulling a weapon on him (as I've showed in earlier posts, the driver had NO IDEA he was being arrested - he was never told he was under arrest or that he would be arrested if he refused to sign). Should the officer have TOLD HIM to stop? Most definitely, and there is no excuse for this officer's behavior in this case.

From Wikepedia: A belligerent is an individual, group, country or other entity which acts in an aggressive or hostile manner, such as engaging in combat.

Other sources read pretty much the same.

You write the taser is a tool for law enforcement to control beligerents as if it applied in this non-belligerent situation.