As I pointed out to you last night, this video you’re pointing to that says he was tased is a bunch of crap. The guy is misreading what the article he quotes says about the taser. That article doesn’t say the taser was used. It says the officer with the taser stepped through the snow toward Finicum, and that he was attempting to subdue Finicum with less than lethal force. However, at that moment, Finicum reached for his weapon and he was shot by other officers. He was never tased. The taser was not deployed at all, and that article doesn’t say that it was.
A LEO trying to subdue someone with less than lethal force = deploying a taser to try to disable the person. You can see that the operator thinks it was deployed because he is messing with the wires and trying to keep them untangled, then drops the taser and arms himself with his primary weapon.
You knowledge and understanding of in the field weapons and tactics is basic, at best.
You talk like you have read the article about these details and have lived them and they are facts chiseled in stone.
Your willful ignorance of the bigger picture is tellingly disturbing.
Your willful and ravenous appetite for what any and all LEOs feed you is repulsive to me.
You need to wake up, buttercup. Or as many before me have expressed, may your chains rest lightly.
So are you practicing your closing argument on FR? Good times. :-)
We went over all this at the time of the shooting. Get up to speed, RightFluffer:
freeper bone52 explains in great detail in post #178:
At 9:32 in the unedited film, the officer to the left is no more than two times the width of the Lavoy’s truck from Lavoy. Assuming the back of the truck is about 6-6.5 feet, that would put the officer at about 12 feet.From Wiki and multiple product sites, the effective range of the taser is based on the cartridge used, but almost every model has an effective range of at least 15’ and many up to 35’. Also, the farther spread of the prongs, within reason, increases the effectiveness of the taser.
Also, the angles look liked he got tased in the front/side, not in the back, so clothing would not be nearly as big an issue.
Finally, read my first post and watch the video to see how the officer is behaving. There is no rational basis for some of his actions unless he used a taser.
This is from
FBI Video Release of Lavoy Finicum Shooting and Why CTH is Reluctant to Engage
The Conservative Treehouse ^ | 1/31/2016 | Sundance
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3391034/posts
The taser was deployed. If you watch the video closely, you can see the officer stripping line from the taser as he maneuvers toward the road.