The problem with tazing is that Brown had already nearly taken the officer’s firearm from him. A shot was fired in the struggle. That would have left the officer, in the next few seconds, holding or checking his firearm and then the perp turned around and rushed him.
I cannot second guess his actions in light of what Brown started.
I am against the militarization of the police and at least am glad that the whole issue has brought this to a head; however, it appears that Brown’s shooting is not the racist white cop against the poor ghetto child meme that the media wants this to be.
I’ll stand with white, brown, black, yellow, red or even purple people who are mistreated by the police but this is clearly not a case of such.
You just pointed out the problem with this entire mess. Few have the straight story. I didn’t know what you just told me. There is a huge lack of good straight forward journalism in this story. Once again New Media— epic fail.