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Old 07-10-2009, 05:45 PM   #73 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by H4wkeye View Post
Yea.You know whats fun?So one day a cop on patrol pulls a woman over.He takes the id etc. and finds out that the car is stolen and that she is a bit drunk,he also found a bottle of booze in the car.So he cuffs her and checks her out.It turns out shes got a warrant and that she has a past criminal record.So he arrests her and she says to him: I hate cops.The cop asks her Why?And she says:Cuz you destroy lives.I laughed so much i fell of my chair.She told him COPS destroy LIVES.WELL ***** NO ONE ASKED YOU TO BREAK THE LAW.You destroyed it yourself,cops just do their job.
Yes I completely agree with you that many cops out there do a fine job when it comes to doing police work. We only hear about the horror stories and as such people make their opinion based on that. They also hate when cops give them tickets for speeding or for marijuana. I have nothing against any of that because the cop was doing there job. Love em or hate em they were doing their job.

Now in the case the cop went way over the line. He knew that this girl was no threat to anyone, he knew the situation and decided to use something that was unnecessary. This type of force should be used on uncooperative LAW BREAKERS. Running from the cops, at least in this situation, does not make your a criminal. The cop didnt feel like going after her so he said screw it I am just going to tazer her instead. Now most of the time I do feel that in tazer incidents i read that the cop had other options but the tazer could be justified.

In the situation the cop was just lazy and resorted to a means of force that is just completely wrong. Thats like saying its ok for parents to tazer their children when they dont know what else to do.
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