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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.

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