And policemen wonder why the public call them pigs and have no trust in them.
I wouldn't piss on that guy if he was on fire.
"Tasers are not compliance devices" damn right, shame most policemen I've seen in these cases seem completely unaware of this fact. They are an alternative to lethal force - had that cop not had a tazer, would he have drawn his gun and shot the guy dead? You bet your arse he wouldn't have. Shooting a guy over a speeding ticket? No way. So how is tazering someone in the same situation any different? What if the guy had a pacemaker? Oh sorry judge the suspect refused to sign this bit of paper for speeding because I didn't explain the proceedure like I'm supposed to.
It's not the worst case I've seen by far, but that doesn't excuse it.
On more than one occasion I have been confronted by zealous policemen who clearly over steped the boundry of what is reasonable; in the UK you get what's called a 'producer' to attend a police station of your choice with the appropriate vehicle registration documents, insurance etc. I never carry these on the principal that they are too valuble to be left in a car or carried about in my back pocket. Yet because I have long hair and get stoped in the early hours of the morning I was considered guilty "look, I know you don't have insurance, so why not come clean now, it'll make it easier on you in the long run' - this from 2 cops whilst I am locked in the back of a squad car for half an hour whilst they tried to verbally trick me into 'fessing up'. They wern't very pleasant about it either. But what can you do?
That wouldn't happen these days with the vehicle check database
we all know how infallible computers are... "but I have insurance and a license officer..." " Computer says nooo..." zzzztt! aargh!
As a child I was always brought up to respect the police, but these days I wouldn't trust any of them as far as I could spit. I learned, when I was old enough to understand such things, that 'respect' was something that had to be
earned. Police these days seem to do very little to earn the respect of the public and they are supprised when they receive such open hostility from ordinary folk and criminals alike. It sure says a lot about the way things are these days. Sure they have a difficult, thankless job, but that's no reason to treat everybody like a criminal and assume guilt based on them being a copper and you being some poor mug joe public who has to cow-tow to them 'or else'.
At least the fellow getting the ticket wasn't this guy:
http://news.google.co.uk/news?q=polish+man+tasered+to+death+in+airport&hl=e n&safe=off&client=firefox-a&channel=s&rls=org.mozilla:en-US
fficial&hs=Gld&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=news_result&resnum=4&ct=title
http://www.thestar.com/News/article/276565