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Originally Posted by Amputate Your Head
I thought you just said it's common for people to completely resist tasers?
How can that be common, and still "work in almost all situations, but not all." ?
Sounds like police propaganda straight out the good 'ol boy handbook to me.
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If you line up 100 people and taser them, almost all will drop to the ground... a couple, a few, maybe none will be able to remain standing, most can move. For example, I can move rather easily - I just can't open my hands. If I had a gun in my hand and you tasered me, I would pull the trigger.
The taser also isn't always on, it's a trigger.. they shoot you, which hurts. They then juice you and you freeze up, they give you instructions and they let off... If you don't obey, they juice it again. It's the freeze up that doesn't happen on everyone.
Everyone will register the pain, some people deal with pain differently than others.
Pepper spray is for close contact, hitting him at that distance he would have ran off the cliff or risk hitting everyone with blow back. Rubber bullets/bags work for crowds. Flash bangs suck outside. Gun fire could have missed or went through him and hit people/houses below.
What they did was standard procedure. My only suggestion was they should have shot his ass before he had a chance to leap/slip off that cliff - Not really giving a crap about the people below. They could have shot his hip bone, shattering it, maybe killing him but bullets almost never go through that bone.