Here is another example of a situation where a call is made by some overreacting citizen, thre is no mention of any discussion or verbal communication with the suspect/victem, and the police taze the fuck out of him at the first sign of resistance.
The accounts of the police and the victem don't vary much. The cops say they recieved a call, saw someone(probably anyone) who fit the discription, tried to apprehend him, and at the first sign of resistance tazed him. If the account of the family is true I feel very threatened by this because if I was jumped from behind by someone, and I didnt know who it was, I would resist.
When is it reasonable to assume the people jacking you are cops?
Here, a man is tasered for pissing in public.
And again we pose the question to you; Are tazers being used to save lives here, or are the police using them as a shortcut?
I have had a lot of good experiences with sherrif's deputies in my life. From my personal experience, these law enforcement oficers act like they are out there to protect and serve. However, I believe that anyone that wants to become a police officer should be prevented from doing so.
After high school, a number of accuaintances of mine became police officers. Universally they were thugs. They were the kind of people that would pick on those weaker than them for fun, drink underage and use other illegal drugs, go to bars to get into fights, and drag race their trucks up and down the main streat through town. This didn,t change when they became cops, they carried multiple guns when off duty just because they could, they ran peoples licence plates because they were bored, and they drag raced the police crusers up and down the interstate. The point being, they didn't become police because of a respect for law and order, or because they wanted to help and serve their community. They became police so they could act like thugs and get away with it.
My larger point is, its almost impossible to find someone who genuinely wants to protect and serve the people of one's community and serve that function with the application of violence. My experience is that what we get is yahoos who want the badge as an excuse to be violent. Of course if we don't let these people become police they will still be criminals and thugs, but at least they will be in jail instead of hiding behind their badge and gun/taser.
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