| " to tazer and tackle the perpetrator who isn't actively resisting? " He admitted to resisting in the article. You can see how changing one small fact completely changes the nature of the article. If police are trying to arrest you, and you fight back, that's a major escalation it almost puts 'the thing in question' they were pulled over for as a side show. And - he's deaf, he's not blind. The notion that 2 Police officers in uniform are upon you, and you can't tell they are police is a bit rich, it sounds like something made up by an attorney. 'Blinded by the light' would make sense when they were in their car or behind the lights. And certainly maybe he didn't recognize them or hear them at that time. But by the time the police are upon him, it would seem very well within reason that he knew they were police. That said, we don't quite know the details: maybe they came up on him from behind. Maybe they walked straight up to him and it was perfectly evident that they were cops. That nuance is really important, because 'resisting arrest' is a serious thing, and if he did in fact know they were police, and he fought them, well then he's not going to have much of a defence in getting tased. If he was legitimately surprised then obviously some kind of reaction like that is warranted. All of that said, why was he in prison for 4 months, that seems very bad. |