The police and the overuse of taser guns.

My son is a police officer and if you heard the stories about how the officer have to "allow" the criminals to do this and that or act this way or that way and the office has to allow it at his own personal risk, you'd change your min d- at least a little. Criminals get more rights than the officer or victim. The problem is that the office doesn't know the whole story prior to the incident. He has to deal with what he sees right then and there and while stopping the criminal, he also has to protect those by-standers and lastly him self and all in the length of a few seconds. Could you think about all that that fast? From all that I have seen and heard from several places of information, In cases like this, if the officers didn't do what they did, there'd be another group going off on the offier about why didn't he protect them? But yes, I am with you on the physical thing. My son makes sure he sticks to his physical ability - it is his life that depends on it. But I know many officers and deputys and yes, they do have a weight problem and they should not be on the streest in that condition.. for their own sake as well as others. I don't know why it is so mandatory to be in perfect physical condition in order to graduate the academy, but after that it doesn't seem to matter. Yet remeber in the news not long ago - summer time about - that captain in FLorida that made it mandatory for his department to deal with their weight problem - him being over weight himself. He dropped like 30 pounds and those that didn't got repremanded or fired or whatever it was. A group got all wound up about how he could treat his officers that way and "belittle them" and violate their civil rights and it got so bad that he had to resign! Kind of crap if you do and crap if you don't So, how are officers supposed to do their job?

You have to imagine that it's tough being a cop. Where I live, cops get killed a lot. Being a cop is dangerous and you're risking your life every day. So sometimes, when someone seems to strike out at you, you do what comes naturally. Not that I think it's right. I think that maybe they shouldn't use tasers too often and/or they should get less dangerous tasers. It's a tough call really I think. I just know that cops have to defend themselves and sometimes one of them will end up getting killed, the cop usually hopes it isn't them.

But whatever one is missing here is - you can make judgement as you know the whole story now. When it happened, those offices didn't know the whole story. They only saw a man throwing large objects in an airport and not responding to their commands. They didn't know he was upset, theydidnt' know he was lost, they didn't know he couldn't speak english - all they saw was a man being violent in the airport for no apparent reason, and terrorist is what pops into their minds right after "he is endangering those people". IF those officers hadn't done anything and that guy turned out to be a terrorist, can you imagen what would be going around now? "those cops just let that terrorist hurt those people...." and those cops would now be unemployed and most likely never employed in law enforcement again, if not incarcerated. So before making judgement, make sure you look at it from the side that existed that you don't know about first. Even put yourself in the positino of the officer as to what would you do if this is all you saw and know nothing else or even what a by stander would have thought. If I had been standing next to this guy or in the general area, and saw what he did -I'd sure been grateful those cops were there and did what they did, and I'd bet you would've too.