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Originally Posted by tical
I would agree with you had they pulled out their guns and shot him in the head while he was attempting to surrender, but that isn't what happened. They tased an armed murderer in an attempt to immobilize him. How can you play the weapon he had down, as if it (or a weapon just like it) didn't already kill someone?
Besides, the guy did have somewhere to run - right off of the cliff, and that is where he went. The video shows it clearly. He scooted himself right off of the cliff as he was being tased. He didn't want to be caught.
How would you have handled this situation if you were LE? Would you have walked right up to him and cuffed him?
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I've already said how I would've handled it. (maybe it was a different thread, not sure).
They kept him there for 8 hours. Obviously if the guy really wanted to kill himself, he had all day to do it. Why did the police all the sudden decide to rush this guy... which is what they did... they all rushed up there, then shoot him in the back with two tasers on the edge of a cliff?
Why not simply
wait the guy out? He's not going anywhere. And at some point, he's either going to have to eat, shit, or sleep. Are you really telling me that 30-40 cops cannot arrest one fucking guy at the edge of a cliff? They couldn't wait him out, or at least get him away from the edge a little bit and THEN taser the shit out of him?
Seriously, what kind of idiots tase a fucking dude on a cliff's edge?