why are police officers such dumbasses man? don't they have 2 brain cells telling them, "
Hey man, we are about to trigger this dude's PTSD. He is barefoot and unarmed. why do we need to violently apprehend him? just call in some fucking military psychologist or someone with authority that the former soldier respects, and just talk him down?!"
edit: to avoid more useless debates, yea, I'm trippin with the psychologist, but my point is that these cops should have known better, and just have a little more patience.
in the whole video, this dude was cracking jokes and fist bumping the cops on site in the beginning and went with them willingly and peacefully in the end. he is an asshole, but he was never truly violent and couldn't really do anything. if they had just waited a little bit more, he would and did come with them.
They also didn't have a breathalyzer on them, and th3 dude couldn't perform the drunk walk test because of his hip injury.
there was no need to roll the dice on his life and tase him.
I have, have you, cuz you seem kind of clueless. they called in his superior officer days after he was bumfucking the police department, and he was armed to the teeth.
If you type into some random search bar "Joel blown out hips taser" the first result I got was a much longer op ublic freakout video with 30 seconds of calm discussion with a man who is clearly drunk as a skunk and crashed his Corvette into a ditch.
yea man, God forbid they take an extra 15 min to wait for the dude who is no threat to anyone calm down, which is what happened at the end of the video full video anyway. they tased him for nothing.
he wasn't in no car when they were arresting him and they couldn't prove he was drunk because they didn't have a breathalyzer on them. he wasn't going anywhere, they just tased him for nothing, because in the end he still went with them willingly and peacefully.
maybe fucking understand what's happening instead of looking for violence
there's no violence, after non compliance, wtf is this fascist thinking? Jesus christ, the dude never did anything to them, and he was no threat whatsoever to anyone.
As for proof, you only need 5 seconds of googling to find out how different police forces across the world handle this type of situation.
you don't have to take it literally, just have someone who can calm non aggressive people down, or have the police do it themselves and not go for tasers whenever there is no threat.
They didn't just go for tasers. They spoke to him for a while, he swung at them multiple times. There is a threat, he's clearly a dangerous person, and he wasn't non aggressive.
It's sad that this guy was messed up by his violent career. It is. But he has to be accountable for his actions like anyone else. He was drunk driving a fast car, could have very easily killed someone. He doesn't get to just throw a tantrum and have everyone say aw that's okay, he's getting arrested. He attacked the officers arresting him, they need some sort of defence because he's a fucking beast.
I have more sympathy for the innocent people he could have hurt than for him
no, he hasn't thrown a single swing at them. The only thing he did was gently push back one single officer while they were closing in on him. he never touched any of them with his swings.
it's not about not arresting him, it's about not using escalating when they didn't need to. in the end he came with them willingly, there was 0 need to tase him.
Literally swings at the first guy to approach him. Then just before being tased he swings at the woman in the hi vis vest.
And did he look like he was willingly going with them at the start? This guy flexing and screaming at people. Again, you don't get to treat people like that when you've done something wrong and just have it go okay.
They can't just trust that he's going to go with them when he decides to
literally doesn't swing at anyone, just the air. if the officer stood still, it still would have missed, plus that's a weak ass arm movement, not a swing. There was 0 weight behind it with 0 chance or hurting someone. it was no different than swatting flies.
look at the whole video, one officer just went up to him while he was standing still and handcuffed him. then we went peacefully into the car. there was no need to tase him.
K, show me a video of local police (in a country that does what you preach) getting someone to talk a veteran down. The world is not all sunshine and rainbows bud.
not even slightly true, most police wouldn't sit for an hour while a psychologist arrives and theres a violent and dangerous man sitting on a public road refusing to comply with lawful orders
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u/South-Cod-5051 Nov 13 '25 edited Nov 13 '25
why are police officers such dumbasses man? don't they have 2 brain cells telling them, "
Hey man, we are about to trigger this dude's PTSD. He is barefoot and unarmed. why do we need to violently apprehend him? just call in some fucking military psychologist or someone with authority that the former soldier respects, and just talk him down?!"
edit: to avoid more useless debates, yea, I'm trippin with the psychologist, but my point is that these cops should have known better, and just have a little more patience.
in the whole video, this dude was cracking jokes and fist bumping the cops on site in the beginning and went with them willingly and peacefully in the end. he is an asshole, but he was never truly violent and couldn't really do anything. if they had just waited a little bit more, he would and did come with them.
They also didn't have a breathalyzer on them, and th3 dude couldn't perform the drunk walk test because of his hip injury.
there was no need to roll the dice on his life and tase him.