“My guess is he would have pulled out a real revolver instead of a taser gun.”
Probably and based on this case it would have been yet another case of deadly force being used incorrectly.
“Probably and based on this case it would have been yet another case of deadly force being used incorrectly.”
Your first statement: “how would he ever handle a real criminal?”
The taser wasn’t ‘deadly force’. It wasn’t used incorrectly.
If it had been a ‘real criminal’ and he had a ‘real gun’, then the officer would have been justified in using his own gun. (Or should he let the real criminal go because the real criminal insists that he doesn’t have a gun?)