Incredibly there are people on this thread who say he got what was coming to him. Many of today's cold-hearted cops probably feel the same way. Like I said resisting arrest should not be a prerequisite to getting tazed to death. And it seems to be happening more and more.
Cops associate their guns with death, unfortunately not so with tasers so they may be too quick to use them unnecessarily. Look for more and more murders at the hands of law enforcement from tasering until they are either sued into oblivion or ruled unconstitutional.
So to avoid being tased, all I have to do is resist arrest?
Or should the cops use some less lethal force like a billy club?
What exactly do you think the cops should do with an out of control assh**e?
anybody that supports this type of blatant homicide by law enforcement authorities just because a man was resisting arrest is only encouraging more of the same.
Homicide? What was the perp's intention when he was splitting the cop's head open? Was that homicidal? IMHO, they could have been justified putting a round between his eyes right then and there. They didn't.
With all due respect to your cop phobia, when and where I grew up, if you hit a cop, you were going to have a have you ass beat severely with a night stick. If you drew blood, you would have several .38 police special rounds penetrate your body, not an electrical charge that will just knock you on your ass.