UCLA Officers Use Taser on ID-less Student

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Originally Posted by Prudence

That is precisely the attitude I was concerned about. There's this idea that tasing is essentially harmless so it just doesn't matter.

Well, I"m not saying everyone should go out and get one and start taizing everyone. If it's them or you and Law Inforcement is involved, I'd rather have someone knocked to ground than beaten to a pulp. In actuality I'd rather have the idiot who was smug enough to NOT show his ID or leave when he was asked to, to comply like everyone else is expected to. When will that end? You get pulled over and the cops ask for your Drivers Licences and you refuse? If I was the Cop or SEcurity Guard I'd rather have the guy dropped, then either someone killed, shot or if the person has other motives, myself blown up. So in a perfect world all would be well.

That said, I'm not excusing the % of the cops that do this for sport or unjustified. From what I read, I'd rather have the guy tazed, take outside, rather than anything the guy "Might" have been doing in a closed area. What if this had been an area of an airport? Or a library at the local Jr.High.

I"M not excusing the problem, just simply saying it's a bit broader than just some moron not "showing his ID."