Tasering at Phillies Game--Fair or Extreme?

Which is just disturbing.

 

FIXED!!!!!

 

Feel free to dial a number other than 911 when you are in trouble.

 

DIAL 0

 

It's an inappropriate response to a trespasser.

It's a perfectly acceptable response to someone blantantly ignoring an order from a police officer to stop.

 

Look at the video.

The fact is, the kid was embarrassing the fatass cop who was too out of shape to catch him. So the cop took the easy way out. Another example of lazy policing.

Totally unacceptable response.

 

In case anybody was wondering, this is an incredibly big deal in Philadelphia. It led the local newscasts last night. I think sentiment is clearly turning toward the "overreaction" side, helped by the fact that the kid's parents and stepfather seem to be normal, decent people who aren't defending what he did, or professing outrage, etc.
Unlike with the guy who threw up on the little girl, I think people here are getting a "this-guy-is-one-of-us" vibe, putting themselves in the parents' shoes, if not the kid's. Be interesting to see how the Phillies react.
Of course, the fact that another doofus had to run out onto the field in the 9th Tuesday night is going to muddy the waters. Chris Wheeler, one of the Phils' announcers, was so pissed it sounded like he wanted them to shoot the second guy with real bullets.

 

Piss on Wheels.

 

You're correct. Only those who believe that anything a police office does is OK and always supports their illegal activities should expect to receive police protection.

 

yeah and if he tackles the stupid ass kid and the kid breaks his arm or leg people would be complaining about that and some scumbag lawyer would sue for a mil.
like someone said on page 1, stay in your seat.

 

We all agree that yes, the kid shouldn't have run onto the field. The issue is whether the cop used excessive force.

Tasers have been responsible for at least twenty deaths in Canada alone over the past few years. They were introduced as an alternative to lethal force where cops felt their or other people's lives were in imminent danger.

I don't think tasing a kid who's running around a baseball field waving a white towel qualifies The cop should be suspended or at least forced to enroll in a fitness program to shed those donut pounds.

The Mounties, who very seldom admit any wrongdoing, have come up with a much stricter policy on taser use as the result of a judicial inquiry into the death of a Polish tourist who was tased repeatedly by two of Canada's finest in the Vancouver airport.

As I've said twice before, lazy fucking policing.