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Originally Posted by oneday
My logic is not flawed at all. From the cop's point of view: Should I risk hurting myself and possibly this d-bag by tackling him (which could lead to some lame civil suit brought on by the spoiled slob's parent's), or should I use this nifty electronic device guarantying that I do not need to get emergency knee surgery tonight and ensure that any potential injury will be solely inflicted on the dipswitch that is willfully breaking the law? Yeah. Taze the bish.
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You do realize there has been more than one incidence of people being killed by a taser, right? The cop needed to weigh emergency knee surgery (which I've actually never even heard of - knee surgery isn't usually an "emergency") against possibly killing the kid and spending the rest of his life either behind bars or financially destitute because of the enormous civil suit that would follow.
Tackling the kid has a possibility of injuring him, maybe a slightly higher possibility for injury than tasing him. The problem is, with tasing, right along with the possibility of injury there is also the possibility of death. That cop would fry if he killed a kid just for running out onto a baseball field.
All I'm saying is tasing the kid could have ended up just as bad or even worse for the cop than tackling him. The best thing to do would have been to get multiple cops involved and just corner the kid. He's not gonna keep trying to fight and run away if he's backed into a corner with 4 or 5 cops surrounding him. Chase him until he gets tired. The problem is most cops these days would have a heart attack if they ever actually attempted a full sprint.
Sorry, I don't see any way that tasing this kid was justified (legally anyway - if that was my kid he get a lot worse than tased when he got home). I've never heard of a cop tasing a fleeing suspect in the back.