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To: Rick.Donaldson
When the guy turned away, the cop could have been in danger, yes. BUT if the cop were properly controlling the situation and not ordering the guy out of his car, etc, then the situation would have have escalated to that point.

You mean to say that the officer should have told him first that if he didn't sign that he'd get arrested and possibly go for "a ride on the Taser"? What on earth for? That takes all the fun out of it.

50 posted on 02/01/2008 8:49:28 AM PST by VeniVidiVici (Benedict Arnold was against the Terrorist Surveillance Program)
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To: VeniVidiVici

I don’t know, I have watched a lot of these videos lately, and not one of them where the cop used the taser was it even necessary. There was one, where a guy who was drunk was belligerent, ok, there was a reason to use it. The guy wasn’t a threat to the cops at all, and couldn’t have hit a wall if he’d been placed in front of it and had help aiming, BUT, he could have hurt himself. THAT was probably the only one where it was justified. There have been several deaths lately attributed to tasers as well. A woman in a wheel chair? Some of the same folks here arguing this was a good thing would likely argue they should have tasered her as well.


54 posted on 02/01/2008 8:53:00 AM PST by Rick.Donaldson (http://www.transasianaxis.com - Visit for lastest on DPRK/Russia/China/Etc --Fred Thompson for Prez.)
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