Um...
Not enough details. He could have looked like he was going for a gun - in which case, would you have preferred that the cop empty the magazine of his regular firearm into the teen? Because that's the only other alternative in such a case.
I think we'll find that this kid was high on drugs and had a heart defect.
Exactly. Sounds pretty overreactive but do you expect all of the facts from the press?
There are enough details present -- and not present -- for me. If there was any way they could spin a scratch of the nose for "suspect appeared to be reaching for a gun", they would have.
And they've only been using the Tasers for five months. That says to me that, as a group, the PD really doesn't know what is likely to happen when they pull that trigger.
Um.. he'd already been tazered once... and was down and struggling with them.. what exact gun was he going for when they tazered him again????
Sorry, but based on what little info is in this article, its hard to believe the cops didn't handle this situation poorly all the way around.
Now the facts will come out, and if the cops acted appropriately fine, but if some mentally unstable teen just died because a couple of cops screwed up royal they need taken to the woodshed.
There is not enough details, so you pull stuff out of your butt? There is nothing in the article that even remotely supports any of your nonsense.
Why didn't you read the story?
I think we'll find that the cops are idiots for believing they have to subdue somebody shouting "I want Jesus".