Re: Should all police have tasers?
 

Suspects / detainees die on a sadly too regular basis from restraint, baton strikes and positional asphyxia. It's a risk of the job that struggling and violence will sometimes have the worst possible outcome and everything you can do to minimise that risk should be done.

IMO a Taser is far less dangerous than a baton and I'd rather be tasered than CS'd.

Here is a radical suggestion. If you think the Police did a crap job and their actions were wrong how about you tell us what you would have done.

I won't hold my breath though.

Re: Should all police have tasers?
 

you seem to be getting a little annoyed that you can't get your own way and that is the perfect reason not to arm the police with tasers ,if this was a stand off in the street you would have probably tasered me by now just because i wont do as i'm told .

Re: Should all police have tasers?
 

Nope, not even close.

Re: Should all police have tasers?
 

Papa: I think I've been graped by mods

PC Plod: You mean raped?

Papa: No, there was a bunch of them.

Buh-dum tish :D (I know its old but I'm in that sort of mood :))

Re: Should all police have tasers?
 

Get your camera out. he'll stop asking you then :)

Re: Should all police have tasers?
 

Someone else who would have benefited from 50,000 volts (or 9mm of lead)

http://youtu.be/Mr8SmrH_D1k

Re: Should all police have tasers?
 

Agreed, I don't know what the girl cop was doing though in most of the video. I was starting to wonder if the guy was going to be kebabed before she got the spray going.

Re: Should all police have tasers?
 

:confused:

She sprayed him first off when he turned round but in true ned style it had no effect. The only other thing she could realistically have done is scudded him on the back of the head when he was getting a bit stabby with the cop wearing the camera.

Re: Should all police have tasers?
 

If this happened in some other countries, he'd be dead.

Re: Should all police have tasers?
 

Fixed that for you.

Re: Should all police have tasers?
 

Was tasering someone doused in petrol a good idea, guess the inquest will answer that

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-34382270

Re: Should all police have tasers?
 

I don't know that it will, I read this and was initially outraged, how stupid to tase someone like that I thought....

Then I looked closer, what a **** situation for the copper, guy was going to set himself on fire with a match, what to do? Using the adage, doing something is better than nothing, he probably felt he had nothing to lose by trying to disable said guy. I've never actually come across this situation before so I don't know if the shock creates a spark or what. The inquest at this point aren't clear if it was the taser or the match that did it. The copper faced disciplinary action too to make things just that bit worse for all concerned, but they seem to have dropped that due to lack of being able to prove anything for sure.

Guy on fire was more than likely destined to go up regardless, given as he had soaked himself in petrol & was waving a match around. I feel more for the copper being screwed if he did nothing and screwed if he did something. I wonder what they'll do in future repeat scenarios.

No winners here, sad all round, definitely not one of those 'you tased me bro' stories.