Originally Posted by
Capt Fathom
People do not get tasered for being model citizens. Likely more went on than what was shown on that short video clip.
Yes, and police of course never overreact and use their weapons of escalation - they ALWAYS do the right thing and never overreact. I come from a Police family, they were all level headed but we all know there are people out there that get a uniform and become gung ho.
I remember having AFP remove people from aeroplanes in the old days of AN and QF and they didn't have tasers and never had to use any weapons. They just used their voices and their training to explain to the person why they must leave NOW. Society is too quick to go to the next step now and Police are becoming more and more heavily armed. I mean when there's a bank robbery, what precisely justifies CRT police having assault rifles, in a country where they are banned and you can't buy/obtain them? Where does this end? Are we going to have riot police with tactical nukes in 40 years time?