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Okay…
The positives:
They used non-lethal force. If your gonna be a fucked up police force, I would rather you be stupid with the non-lethals rather than the lethals. I’m looking at small victories where I can.
Negatives:
You don’t use tasers on people cooperating with their hands up in the air. I can’t… really figure out a excuse for that on the cops part. I might consider it in a war zone if I chased someone who just blew up my convey, thinking more guys might be waiting to ambush me, but ummm… the age of this kid, and how cooperative he is being, doesn’t suggest this, he (the cop) had enough time to register this.
Further, being cooperative, you can’t order someone to receive pain… I’ve never seen this command “come here, I’m going to tase you” ever discussed anywhere as a valid police command. Their isn’t a law that standardized police or military commands across the board, cops should have some flexibility to say in unique situations what they need to say, but it is clearly unprofessional to insist to someone with their hands up, being now cooperative to essentially embrace for torture. That qualifies as police brutality… many circumstances I could see cops hitting the kid with a taser… if he was acting suspiciously, running at the cop, hiding a hand, running… this kid was doing none of that.
I don’t even know what the fuck to say about pepper spraying a old woman in her own kitchen… she has every right to be startled and agitated, I really can’t see how cops that big can be intimidated by her. They did just barge right in.
Also, fantastic video about the need of keeping door braces installed inside houses… that kick to the door, works 70% of the time, it’s about a inch thick most doorbolts and knob latches, inserted into the thinnest wood. I would of made the cops explain themselves and demanded a warrant, and feel free to kick, I want you off my property, lawyer is being called. Ain’t no fucking idiot cop kicking my door down. You gotta reinforce that wood with a metal plate… They kick, won’t budge unless the door itself breaks, not the frame. You can reinforce the door too for Mr. Testosterone. Running a red light, if that is the original charge, and seeing it was a inexperienced kid who lightly just got scared for reason X, isn’t a good enough reason to get every cop in the area together into a ad hoc swat team.
I do congratulate the police department for getting body cams, and having plentiful non-lethals around. Whoever was the instructor… and I’m doubting there was one, now needs to testify seeing this video, if that is how he trained these misfits in response.
Bad, but at least nobody died. “Come here, I’m going to tase you” shouldn’t come out of anyone’s mouth ever in law enforcement. That’s like, the very definition of police brutality. Fucking idiots. Should a sane person trying to be cooperative go along with that command? Those tasers can still kill.