The officer specifically said, 5 times, "Turn around and put your hands behind your back" and the fact that he had the taser in his hands should have been all the warning that the little punk needed.
But instead of complying, the punk keeps asking "What's wrong with you?" and begins walking back to his car.
So, I'll modify my question:
If an officer of the law tells you to turn around and put your hands behind your back, what are you going to do?
And if you don't comply, what do you think is going to happen? Is this trooper, or any cop, supposed to let you walk back to your car and drive off, or, perhaps reach under the seat, grab a gun and shoot him?
I don’t see where he told him he was under arrest or that he was going to be arrested. Besides that he never even told the guy that by not signing the ticket he would be obligated to arrest him.
Idiot officers make all officers look bad.
What I say I’ll do and what I’ll actually do when confronted by a weapon when I cannot understand for the life of me why a law enforcement officer would be pointing a weapon at me are two different things. I’d like to think I would stop in my tracks and comply with whatever he says, but I’ve never been in that situation. It’s possible I’d say “What the hell is wrong with you” and try to shield myself by turning my back, then try to lessen any potential impact by walking away. I have no idea what I’d do until I’m in that situation, which hopefully I never will be.
The point of the whole thing is that the cop escalated a situation beyond all reasonable limits when he had every opportunity to keep things under control. As my brother suggested, this cop should have engaged in a little “verbal judo” to get this man to comply, rather than just resorting to a “ride on the taser”.
You have chosen to blindly support the officer, and have been exposed as a support-the-cop-at-all-costs liar who can’t get an answer to his “super-question” which was based on false premises, so now you’ve changed the question to one that you think makes a better case for you and your UHP buddies.
That’s pathetic. Really, it is.