mafaulkner
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The tazer is meant to be a lesser alternative to the billy club. Non lethal devices range from the bean bag shotgun round to the billy club and finally down to the tazer and pepper spray. A tazer is the lowest form of defense for an officer. A lesser man would have stomped the crap out of her. I believe he showed excellent restraint in the situation. I certainly would have tazed a violent offender that kicked me in the junk... I've been hit with a tazer many times before during training. It hurts a bit, not that much, but it makes you IMMEDIATELY stop whatever you were doing and reconsider it. No permanent harm is done, just a little pain and a life lesson. I'd take getting hit briefly by a tazer over a billy club beating or pepper spray in the face any day!
Also, from the officer's point of view, he was responging to a call about a potentially violent offender. The mother had plenty of options when it came to discipline with her child, either she is too stuipid to be able to deal with her child sensibly or the child was severly out of control. Regardless, she chose to call the police and this is how they handle being assaulted, regardless of the age or sex of the offender.
Also, from the officer's point of view, he was responging to a call about a potentially violent offender. The mother had plenty of options when it came to discipline with her child, either she is too stuipid to be able to deal with her child sensibly or the child was severly out of control. Regardless, she chose to call the police and this is how they handle being assaulted, regardless of the age or sex of the offender.
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