There are still agencies out there that are not training their officers to deal with the mentally ill as it appears this man was.
There are also agencies who are not training their officers to work in two officer teams to affect a proper taser takedown. This entails the second officer to move into position and start the handcuffing as soon as the charge is over or even while it’s going on. It’s tricky though, you get your hands between those probes and you are going to get shocked yourself.
One problem with Tasers is that when the juice is off, it’s off and the fight is back on. And when you are dealing with someone who is mentally ill, they will fight until they collapse and they will not listen to commands to stop fighting.
One of the worst resistings I had was with an autistic teenager, and that was before tasers. He fought throught OC and was throwing two hundred pound officers off him like it was nothing. Took eight officers to finally hold him down. He was about 5’9 and 160 lbs.
I strongly suspect this guy punched some of the officers during the arrest...
Maybe for these cases they need tranq darts or something.
Ah, there is a good reason for the police to kill him! < /sarcasm>
Did the officers beat him until his face looked like the picture posted above? Did they kill him?
Well then, there can be no argument against the 135lb kid needing to be beaten to death..........case closed.
“I strongly suspect this guy punched some of the officers during the arrest...”
If I was being beaten and tasered to death by 6 cops, I think I might take a swing at them.