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Originally Posted by MacGruber
Lets give you this example, as a reply, maritime. If my dad and me were out doing something and for whatever reason my dad was being tasered by a single cop, I would try and put myself in between my dad and the cop. Shielding him with my own body, which the students could have done.
If the cops then decided to start tasering 3, 4, 5 students, then it escalates again. But the cops then have a choice to make. Do we keep tasering this guy and other innocent bystanders, or, do we remove ourselves from the situation.
What about the Polish guy who was **edit** manslaughtered by the RCMP with a taser? He could have used an advocate.
Wtf do you think I meant? You are completely full of it I swear to god.
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Admittedly I'm no expert on tazers (tasers? I don't even know how to properly spell the word) but I've always thought there were two leads that shoot out of the tazer and electricity jots are given when the trigger is held down. I didn't think it's something that you could realistically "jump in front of" and if you got caught up in the leads wouldn't it be two people getting tazed instead of one?
If my father and I were out for a walk and a police officer told him to get on his knees and randomly tazed him I'd probably be frozen in shock, same situation as the library mentioned above. I'd argue it's an extreme situation that is completed unexpected due to the out of character actions of what the police are supposed to do.
It's not fair to me to comment how I'd react to a tazing having never seen one. I'd like to think that I'd be able to talk the situation down before it happened (provided I was involved of course).
I do think it's foolhardy to just get involved in others interactions with the police. If I did see someone in handcuffs and get tazed you can bet that I'll be filing a report.
As for the RCMP Polish man, if I saw that I probably would have incorrectly assumed he was a threat as why else would there be that many police officers trying to corner a guy? I can't go on the assumption that everyone the police are dealing with is innocent, and that the police are just trigger happy all the time.
To get back on topic, I think it's unrealistic to think that strangers in the library would jump in line of the tazer. If the situation you outlined above happened, you'd see more police called in (riot squad? swat team?) the situation would escalate and the police would win, they wouldn't reassess the situation apologize and back away slowly. I think the best thing for them to do would have been to call 9-1-1, record the incident via digital camera/cell phone, and tell them to stop as the suspect is already in handcuffs there's no need to taze him as that's excessive.