The officer involved has a history of abuse.  Not two weeks after this incident the sheriff was called to his home on a report of domestic abuse.   The same sheriff in this video.   No charges where filed for this incident.

Chariton, a great place to be… tased.
Yes, we know your city motto.

And trauma survivors often have to dissociate to talk about what we’ve been through.

Mass media has convinced us that the way that people act in films is realistic, when it’s nothing like that in real life.  cf. Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton, who went to prison for murdering her child (actually killed by a dingo) because she appeared unemotional when talking about it.

But it’s not like we don’t know whether it happened to her or not. We do know that it happened, we have video of it happening to her, and she did go through that horrible experience. Give her a bit of slack, eh?

A similar thing happened in Sydney a few months ago. A Brazilian student stole a packet of biscuits, ran, was tasered by 3 officers and died of a heart attack… Over a packet of biscuits… awful

What did I do? Tell me, what am I under arrest for?
Interference and assault. Now sit.
Assault? Assault? Who’s assaulting who?

Quite.

I totally sympathize with why she would be emotive, but she didn’t seem genuine. I just got a bad vibe from the interview. But it doesn’t matter because the tazing is still wrong.

They killed a man at the airport in Vancouver just like this; restrained him (with four cops) and tazed him to death.

I refuse to call these things “stun guns”. To the Trekkie in me, these are Klingon agonisers.

EDIT: Forgot my footnote that we all know that they are not nonlethal, but the marketing claimed they were.

Half-joking, half not… On one hand I would wish that an officer would be more hesitant to use a lethal weapon unless absolutely necessary… on the other hand, there’s their track record with firearms to think about…

I’d say the reason why bad cops are so destructive to the whole policing system is because cops have been charged with the right to use force, both lethal and non.
They’re called to be witnesses all the time, and whenever it’s your word against their’s the jury either will side with the cop, or dismiss the case.

Bad cops show that anyone with the condoned use of violence in their job dealing with the public could just snap.  It’s not like we can pick and choose which cops we deal with, it’s always a crapshoot whether you get someone who relies on their training and conscience, or someone who relies on their desire to fuck around with you.

I don’t like dealing with cops, but that’s not to say they’re all bad or mostly bad.  I just don’t have any faith in people generally.  I believe that the most natural state is selfishness, since people are basically selfish, and it takes work to do good, that holds true for anyone else.  But when you are put in a position of power, the incentive to do good can be outweighed by the fact that your homies in the department will tell any lie in order to keep you out of trouble as long as you do the same for them.

Police were reluctant to release video that shows handcuffed and hog-tied woman being tased

Of course they were.

One of the things that infuriates me the most about police officers who are bad is how easily it makes us all distrust and fear ALL police officers.   Bad cops make good cops’ jobs ten times harder and more dangerous. 

Imagine going through that, somewhat moving on, and then having to relive it again 2 years later? I assume being repeatedly tasered isn’t a fun experience.