The thing ia the officer wasn't even warranted using a taser or any amount of force. It was a traffic violation FFS. Just mail him yhe ticket. Remmeber years ago when they tasered the 80 year old lady over a traffic ticket?
Any force is excessibe force over a moving traffic violation. Period, full stop.
@NoahB I'm certain it was a mistake. I don't question that. It being a mistake just doesn't excuse it and it doesn't change the need to address what leads to this type if mistake. Refusing a traffic ticket is NO excuse for any amount of force.
Now I know someone will chirp "maybe they wanted to search the car".. A traffic violarion like a dangle in your mirror IS NOT a reasonable cause to search a car. That idea they should be is an error and why this shit happens and people get harrassed in the name of keeping busts up doing the laziest of police work.
" Oh you're going to drive off without taking your ticket?" " We'll mail it to you then".
@MethDozer yeah for real. the whole "well he shouldn't have resisted arrest" thing is such a ridiculous excuse. God Forbid the cops show restraint and not execute someone immediately for a fucking traffic violation. society would just fall apart if we didn't let the cops just gun ppl down the second they resisted a police officer in anyway.
@NoahB He shouldn't have resistied. That's why an additional charge ahould have been listed and another ticket mailed to him.
Expired plates and an air freshner.What a dangerous menace..... Yeah to the bottom line of bloated and over reaourced money grabbing DOT registration offices.
