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Originally Posted by oilers_fan
I was responding to peter when he said that the guy wasn't hiding a gun. I took that to mean he didn't think the police should have been interfering unless he had a gun. There's too much coddling of criminals in this society. I am not trying to suggest police should go around beating people up for no reason, so if that's the way you are reading my comments, you're interpreting them wrong.
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I guess to me there's a massive spectrum of difference between "coddling criminals" and tasering harmless naked drunk/stoned people because you don't happen to like them.
I wouldn't like the guy either--and in no way am I advocating public nudity--especially in his case. But I do think excessive force was used given the circumstances. A taser should be like any weapon in a cop's arsenal: a successful day is when they don't have to use it.