Tased for blocking traffic

No surprise. I'd be upset too if my life's work amounted to writing minor traffic tickets to the working class and then going home making less than the people I cited all day too.

(And disclaimer, I'm aware law enforcement does important work. However, the ones doing important work aren't seeking out the opportunity to write tickets for truckers trying to make deliveries)

 

Ah yes, such insubordination, officers must have been quaking in thier boots to enter such a monstrously violent mans abode, shove him out and then tase him 2 times while he was on the ground....

If the story is to be believed, the guy was trying to back into a dock, so quite literally doing his job on a dead street got cops to roll up on him, charge him with one offense thats not avoidable some places and would be tossed in court anyway, then escalate it to the driver being falsely arrested because he was not all that cooperative..., not belligerent, just clearly ESL and not thrilled to have the cops stopping him from doing his ###### job


Did i miss anything?

 

Putting aside the fact that they were out of their jurisdiction and that their extracting him from the vehicle was questionable:

Player was very clearly in the wrong for twice tasing a subject who was not resisting at the moment he was tased. Taylor clearly had control of the subject at the moment Player activated the taser. In fact, Player tased his partner, Taylor, the second time he activated the Taser, at 1:32.

Player is clearly guilty of using an unreasonable degree of force. And to make matters worse, he was training Taylor at the time.

 

Damage control. They tried to keep it under wraps, but the media is still found out anyway.
Bozos.

 

HFTPD. Really are too many bad apples. It's just out of control when the vast majority of police misconduct and excessive force gets swept under the rug.

 

That was excessive force. The police were wrong 100 percent. They should be fired and charged in my opinion. However, I think it's worth mentioning that nobody is saying, "Why didn't the driver just do what he's told?" Yet that's been said in other discussions like this one. I don't see in any of these instances where the officers' safety was threatened.

 

Because blind obedience to "authority" should never be the first and only path to follow.

Said authority here is attempting to stop and harrass someone from doing their job on an "impeding traffic" charge despite the fact that the only traffic being impeded was the cop themself, and that it doesnt rise to the definition of the term once the backing manouver would be completed, so long as it was done in a reasonable amount of time (ie, not taking 15 min)

If a soldier has the DUTY to refuse unlawful orders, i argue that a civilian has the same duty to refuse to submit to tyranny.

As outlined above, this is an unlawful stop since it would never actually meet the lawful reason the driver was being stopped.

 

Do U.S. Citizens Have the Right to Resist 'Unlawful Arrest'?
Though it may be your duty as a proud American it's almost certainly illegal.