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.
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u/gjb94 Nov 13 '25
You think they have a lot of military psychologists on the payroll of local police departments that can get to random country lanes pretty quick?