I can tell you from experience that when you break your back, foot (and arm and wrist) after hitting a tire wall on a motorcycle at over 100 mph, you CAN be quite belligerent with those who approach you.
You can’t DO anything to them, you can’t move around, you can’t get up, you DEFINITELY can’t follow though on your threats and you may not remember anyhting about the accisent afterwards, but you CAN be VERY belligerent.
With that said, I can see NO excuse whatsoever for tasering a person who is lying on the ground with a broken back no matter how much noise he is making.
But we must remember: Cops don’t like belligerent! It goes against the prevelant “we run the show and you do what we say” mentality. Whether from a “dusted”-up mad man or a guy who just seriously injured himself falling off a bridge, cops DO NOT like belligerent!
You’re right; the cops only accept subservience, even in a routine traffic stop. The comments from the head cop is classic:
“It’s a big concern for the officers to keep this guy out of traffic, to keep him from getting hurt,” said Rousset.
Se we tasered him 19 times to keep him from getting hurt. LoL!
Two questions. How can anybody make up their mind on a story that is so poorly written that it leaves more questions than answers? Who made the diagnosis of broken bones on this young boy before the police officers had to deal with his situation? I was unaware that local hospital trauma teams were dispatched to calls before the police were permitted to intervene.