The point is that cops think Tasers are a big deal when pointed at them, and they will kill you, even though they claim it is a non-lethal tool.

Better than being shot? Yep.

But search Youtube for videos of the misuse (clearly) of Tasers. Hey, let's just keep zapping him while he flops around on the ground. If he would stop flopping, we'd quit zapping him. OH? He can't stop because he's being zapped? Man, it sucks to be him.

No, I wouldn't shoot a police officer for use of a Taser or anything else I can think of.

A non-officer? I'd do exactly what a cop would do.

Man, proud man, dressed in a little brief authority, like an angry ape, play such fantastic tricks before high heaven as make the angels weep

Yes, I'm serious. Why should I allow some clown on a power trip to assault me with his toy?

Why would the tasing be unprovoked. If I get tased, it's likely because I did something stupid. I'm polite to the police and I let them have their way - I'll straighten it out in court later on if I have a problem with their actions.



I once had a friend of mine (who is a cop) say that, and I expressed my displeasure at his statement. He apologized. *shrug* No need to draw-down. No need for violence. It's simply institutional gallows-humor that is not well-received by those who are not in the business.

Exercising the ignore member feature...

You can't possibly be serious. If a taser is a deadly weapon to you, it is unlikely that you can pass a third-class medical.

You need to educate yourself before posting drivel here.

http://www.infowars.com/articles/ps/taser_6yrold.htm

Feel free to post any links you have proving Infowars factually incorrect. Even a 22 year old drug addict or a 51 year old do not deserve to die for a non-capital offense.

So what department do you work for?

Welcome to my ignore list.

The .mil department. Their deaths are tragic - no question - and they did not deserve to die without a trial. I suppose they could have been shot with a real gun? Would you have preferred that? What is YOUR solution?

I am usually the first to call out the police for heavy-handed tactics, but tasers have saved FAR more lives on both sides of the thin blue line than they have cost.

Regardless, this has so little to do with the topic of this thread that I have to wonder why you and G. W. Van Hoos went so far out of your way to make this thread about tasers when it is a thread about what amounted to a civil discussion between police officers (who got bad intel from CBP) and a GA pilot.

The tasing would be "unprovoked" because they can. Kind of like how cops rough up someone during an arrest and scream "STOP RESISTING" as if it's true and the person is actually resisting when he's got your Danner on his neck. Makes for a good report, which makes it that much more difficult to "straighten out in court later on." Sounds neat, in theory - but that ain't how it works.

By the time it gets to court, the cops have already finessed their story with the prosecutor, but they might be nice enough to agree to offer a plea deal that the defendant will take just to get some resolution to a ridiculously onerous process. You end up with an otherwise innocent person pleading out to B.S. charges stemming from the cop's inability to ever recognize that they might be wrong. That's the inherent problem in training cops to never lose a situation - their badge (and their union) tells them they are always right, no matter what.

Gentlemen, forgive me for another intrusion here. We're growing increasingly uncomfortable with the sort of attention this thread may attract via a google search. Given that it appears the original topic of the thread has been thoroughly hashed out, we've chosen to now lock the thread.

Thanks,
Jeff