He reportedly had already tased the kid but apparently (according to what I heard on the news) didn’t do it right, whatever that means. I think that is when the kid started fighting.
That’s fine, but if I fight back against a cop, I expect to be tasered, brutally man-handled, cuffed, jailed and taken before a judge but not shot dead 7 freaking times!
Yes. It appears he did fight back. In looking at the pictures of the Sergeant taken at the scene in the EMS (presumably) the kid pummeled him pretty bad. Lots of blood and some damage to the nose and mouth. That’s when the sergeant pulled his gun to stop it.
The sergeant should have recognized the lights were bad after two stops and let the third instance go and had it on the repair list for end of shift.
He was polite and procedural during the stop and didn’t seem to be confrontational, and the kid sounded to me almost like he was on something, but very cognizant of procedure/rights, etc., even if ill-advised.
At the point when the man says you are under arrest, that is the point when you stop the protesting. Further, even when tazed, he shouldn’t have attacked an armed officer.
It’s hard to say how this is going to play out, especially when this kid attacked the cop. Very unfortunate all around.
Ever since Rodney King, cops across the country have been trading in their billy clubs for tasers. Unlike the tried-and true club, mankind's first weapon, a taser is a complicated piece of technology that requires training to use.
When it doesn't function as designed, the sidearm is all too often the next, quickest alternative.
For some tasing just makes them wild.