Originally Posted by
shawmutt
Actually, my post has to do with the demonizing of an effective tool and the people who are authorized to use it. The OP, and the news story, has no real information--but a tazer was used so the cop must have been wrong. Posting all the alleged misconduct on a daily basis doesn't prove anything.
Come on, you're not really trying to say that's it's a "good" idea to use a taser gun on a person who is riding a bicycle? I think that any reasonable person can see that as being a recipe for disaster.
Also if I am not mistaken, in the case in Ohio shortly after Trotwood v Selz I believe that one of the two cyclists had also been tased by a LEO while riding his bicycle in a safe and legal manner. And that if I am not mistaken his helmet was damaged in the process. What would have happened to him if he hadn't been wearing a helmet?