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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.

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.

This was not a unilateral situation. The trooper didn't walk up to the car, call the kid a punk, yank him out of the car and taze him. That kid is just as much at fault, nae, more at fault, for escalating the situation as the trooper.

And you've been exposed as a cop-hater and we're-all-victims liberal that won't answer my simple question even after I revised it to be absolutely accurate with the video. (BTW, even the original question wasn't a false premise. My words weren't accurate but they had the same meaning and the actions of the kid predicated his tazing.)

Of course, being a liberal, you probably would have just pleaded with the guy to please turn around and let's talk about it over a double latte.