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Originally Posted by vanblah
I'm not sure how I feel about tasers. They wouldn't have had to use the taser in this case if they'd have just handcuffed him instead of causing him pain. Pain causes people to act as if they are resisting when in fact all they are doing is reacting to pain. Most cops I know are aware of that. The pain and the fact that the guy was rolling (I'm assuming ecstasy) made him more difficult to deal with.
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I know exactly how I feel about tazers... don't like them one bit. Got tazed in training one time. Cop pulls out a tazer and I'll be the first one yelling "don't taz me bro!"
As for the pain and his guys reaction- we used to call those "compliance holds." usually when when you apply a hold that causes pain for the person involved they comply, hence the term. The fact this guy didn't comply tells me there's something happening in his brain where he's not getting the full effects of the hold. Could be "X" as you say or could be something else. He could just be mentally ill. Once he doesn't respond to verbal and then physical measures the last step is something mechanical. My guess is their training and SOP is to break out the tazer at that point.
As for the knee drop... kind of hard to defend that. I'm certain he could have caused serious injury by his action. Since it's all on tape wonder if it will be reviewed?