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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you look up FCPD’s use of force laws, the officer is justified in how he handled it. Obviously the chief is throwing him under the bus as a sacrificial lamb for PR. Ultimately the officer will be cleared based on their own orders. [/quote].

Please cite the section of the rules you think justify this. Seriously, I want to understand. Because if you watch the video you see the unarmed man is actually turning AWAY from the officer just before being tasered, not approaching the officer; the officer does not give any verbal warning to the man prior to tasering him (not that I could hear on the video) and the officer deploys the taser a second time almost immediately after the first hit--no time in between to see how the man reacts.

How is that all permissible under use of force rules?

Oh, and the man had just responded "yeah" twice to being asked if he'd get in the ambulance, a split second before he was tasered without warning. The EMTs were opening the back doors of the ambulance as it happened. The guy wasn't walking to the ambulance yet and was starting one of the circles in which he'd been walking all along but he was not rushing and certainly wasn't rushing the cop who tasered him. That cop had just driven up and gotten out and appeared to taser the man with no obvious attempts to assess the situation. It's seconds between the cop's feet hitting the ground as he exits his cruiser and the sound of the first taser hit. The cop didn't even break stride--he just walks up and fires the taser.

Please give us the context of this relative to the use of force rules, PP. [/quote]

Correct. And once the one bad cop escalates the situation, then the other reasonable cops feel forced to join in. So one bad apples spoils the bunch.

On a side note, I did find it interesting that the guy starts yelling, “I can’t breath” after being tazed and cuffed. So despite being wacked out on something he remembers what he’s been hearing on tv lately. [/quote]

Or he honestly couldn’t breathe. My neighbor’s son was tazed as a joke in college and and experienced respiratory distress. He had to go to the ER in an ambulance.[/quote]

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