Aren’t these guys trained? Wow, the kid’s family will get a big pay day.
The cop should be fired. He can get a job at a 7/11.
The cop wasn’t in the wrong. The video has been edited and doesn’t show the way the suspect was acting. He was confrontational and throwing things off the counter in front of several customers, one of who had a child a few feet from the suspect when he walked in and started yelling.
You CAN see the point at which the suspect gets tasered in the video at the link, and plainly see that there is no reaction by the suspect at all. The cop’s assertion that he didn’t think the taser was working is valid.
Always be suspicious of the news media. I’ve heard much more about this case since I live here in Charlotte, and I can tell you that for a DC station to pick up this story and cut out the part of the video where the suspect is clearly threatening is a blatant smear job on the officer.
Hopefully, all out of the pocket of the punk bitch cop that killed the kid.
They used to have mace and these night sticks. There is also pepper spray. But you used to have to have more than a fourth grade education to be a police officer. There has been a lowering of standards across the board throughout the country.
Tasers can be lethal. It should not be routine when there are other options and it is not a real life-threatening situation.
Were there other adult men in the store? Anyone with defensive line football training? Or, say, linebacker? Mike Curtis demonstrated how to deck a punk once. They might add that to the training films.
Basic survival skill: when the law arrives slacker punks should not resist because, even if it is not a WWF fourth grade dropout who likes to show his girlfriend his gun, they might get tasered for half a minute and die. There are abnormal people who experience a sexual thrill from administering taser shocks so that is something to look out for as well. Usually these are the same ones who are too eager to pull over female speeders in traffic and carry an extra set of handcuffs. It takes people different ways.