Watch This Video

[tinybear]

http://www.wimp.com/ladytasered/

Do you think the cops acted appropriately or were they over the top? Please state your reasons.

[SoccerfreakAB2]

http://www.wimp.com/ladytasered/

Do you think the cops acted appropriately or were they over the top? Please state your reasons.

Wow, I would have shot her in the foot. How can you be so ignorant and selfish of the law. The cops shouldn't have to waste their time on people doing 51 on a 35. Idiot. Police tasers aren't even that bad. They give your body a jolt that hurts, but no where near how she was screaming. They acted how they should have.

[Compugasm]

Yep, and she probably could have gotten out of that seatbelt charge in court. Earlier in the video, she couldn't wait to get out of the truck and probably removed it then.

[tinybear]

I think the cop overreacted. The taser wasn't necessary at all. It would've been necessary had she resisted arrest and assaulted the police officer. She did nothing of the sort. She was only telling someone on her cell phone what was happening to her and hence ignoring the cop's instructions. She had a right to make that phone call. She should not have been interrupted. She certainly should not have been tasered. Yeah, her behavior left a lot to be desired. but so what? That didn't justify the use of the taser (not at that stage anyway).

[SoccerfreakAB2]

I think the cop overreacted. The taser wasn't necessary at all. It would've been necessary had she resisted arrest and assaulted the police officer. She did nothing of the sort. She was only telling someone on her cell phone what was happening to her and hence ignoring the cop's instructions. She had a right to make that phone call. She should not have been interrupted. She certainly should not have been tasered. Yeah, her behavior left a lot to be desired. but so what? That didn't justify the use of the taser (not at that stage anyway).

Three times he yelled at her that she would be tasered, while her dumbass said she was on the phone and kept talking. What an idiot, people like that make me so angry at igorance of others. She does not have the right to make that call. She has the right to make the call at the police station. You have to define the line of what an officer can take before a taser is used. Clear and repetitive ignorance to an officer's orders is huge. If that lady can disobey an officer and get away with it, doesn't that mean we all can? Cmon, have a little more respect for the laws we make.

[tinybear]

At the point in time she was making that phone call, she wasn't under arrest. That means she is free to do anything which is lawful, including making a phone call. The cop had no right to interfere. It doesn't matter how many times she was warned. She had a right, at that stage, to continue with her phone call. If he perceived, however, that she had committed an arrestable offense (in this case maybe 'obstruction of a police officer in the execution of his duty'), then, and only then, can she be arrested and then have lost her liberty to do as she pleased. And what's more, it is only if she violently resists arrest that a taser is called for.

Heh, you guys have probably been influenced by her obnoxious behavior. :)

[Protostar]

At the point in time she was making that phone call, she wasn't under arrest. That means she is free to do anything which is lawful, including making a phone call. The cop had no right to interfere. It doesn't matter how many times she was warned. She had a right, at that stage, to continue with her phone call. If he perceived, however, that she had committed an arrestable offense (in this case maybe 'obstruction of a police officer in the execution of his duty'), then, and only then, can she be arrested and then have lost her liberty to do as she pleased. And what's more, it is only if she violently resists arrest that a taser is called for.

Heh, you guys have probably been influenced by her obnoxious behavior. :)

I was influenced. She took a swing at the officier when they tased her. They should have tased her until she shut the hell up. All that crying and nonsense was not necessary. She was just overracting and trying to play the victim role. If she had of gotten out of the car none of that would have happened. I have no sympathy for her at all. In fact, I feel sorry for the cops for having to put up with all that annoying screaming and crying. I know it was very hard for them not to just knock her ass out to quiet the noise.

[tinybear]

Taking a swing is mild stuff. No call for the taser. Yeah I agree her bahavior was really bad, but still....the law is the law.

By the way, I didn't see the 'swing', did you?

[Protostar]

Taking a swing is mild stuff. No call for the taser. Yeah I agree her bahavior was really bad, but still....the law is the law.

By the way, I didn't see the 'swing', did you?

Please, the only reason they used the taser is because she was a female. If that would've been me, they would have pulled me out of the car and threw me on the ground after asking me once. Mild stuff. If I had off swung at a police officier, they'd go Rodney King on my ass. They'd only have to tell me once.

[leftcider]

I didn't see a swing. How do you know it's there?

Those two cops could have handled that woman without tazing her.

[Protostar]

I didn't see a swing. How do you know it's there?

Those two cops could have handled that woman without tazing her.

And then, she would have sued for sexual harassment/assualt claiming they touched her inappropriately. What they did was appropriate. They asked her to get out numerous times and she refused. I didn't see her swing at the cop because the video was so dark, but I believe she did considering how snobby she was acting.

[SoccerfreakAB2]

At the point in time she was making that phone call, she wasn't under arrest. That means she is free to do anything which is lawful, including making a phone call. The cop had no right to interfere. It doesn't matter how many times she was warned. She had a right, at that stage, to continue with her phone call. If he perceived, however, that she had committed an arrestable offense (in this case maybe 'obstruction of a police officer in the execution of his duty'), then, and only then, can she be arrested and then have lost her liberty to do as she pleased. And what's more, it is only if she violently resists arrest that a taser is called for.

Heh, you guys have probably been influenced by her obnoxious behavior. :)

And what if she just resists arrest period, like she did? She didn't want to follow the officer's instructions. What then? Does he wait until she is done from the phone? Are you kidding me? You say the taser is not necessary, yet give no valid support. That is not the law. I don't care what you say, that's not the law, you can debate it all you want. An officer does not have to wait for a person to finish their phone call. That is obsurd, and so is your argument for her liberty, which has no defence here anyways.