so what were your rules on escalating force and how do you imagine they apply here? last time i checked taser came before the laying on of hands and with document-able good reason
Escalating Force? You're kidding right? A bed-ridden 90yo woman with a kitchen knife is not a credible threat to a healthy man. She just isin't. Again neither of us were there, but I
imagine (if I can borrow some of your snark here) that the first step might be to wait 5 min and see if she forgets you're there, or that she's reliving WWII. Or back everyone out of the room in an attempt to calm her down, or wait for the paramedics, because remember this was a medical call, or take the knife on those super tactical Kevlar gloves LE supply houses sell, or hell for that matter tell her Pres. Roseveldt needs her service in the ambulance downstairs. This wasn't an EOF scenario, because (I repeat myself) there was no
credible threat to anyone in the room.
did your security and military gigs involve using tasers and give you a different perspective based on actual use?
Nice articles. Can we just assume here that I did a quick google and turned up a couple articles where Tasers killed someone, or do I actually have to do it for you?
And yes, my jobs did include Taser training. I've used one, and been hit with one before. In general, it's a great less-lethal weapon. It has it's limitations, but so do all weapons. The key here is that a Taser is a
WEAPON not a compliance tool. Weapon. Inside it's design paramaters it does a good job, but it's being used outside that either do to lack of training or lack of caring, IDK which.
But back to Granny the Ripper. Having done a fair amount of physical restraining, and having some good pratical knowledge on the subject (Daddy, just being restrained in the past is not actually good knowledge on it) these officers used a weapon where they shouldn't have.
A single LEO, much less 10, should be expected to disarm and contain a 90YO bed-ridden women
without a weapon or injury to either party. If they can't, they're not good cops. That's not subjective on my end, it's an either/or thing. If they really couldn't contain this women without weapons, they lack the skillset to be good cops.
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ETA: Just so I'm not accused of ducking your question, the rules that I was trained on for EOF are actually pretty long and convoluted. (.mil for you) but they all start with the presence of a threat. One didn't exist here. Granny wasn't going to leap up and actually stab anyone.
