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While I agree with you, how many time have you been pulled over for some BS reason? Most of us will get aggravated if we don’t think we did anything wrong.
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This had gone past the point of a traffic ticket when the guy continued to refuse to sign it. The reason the cop had the guy get out of the car was to place the driver under arrest. Obviously this is from one of those states where you have to sign the ticket.
Lets look at the escalation.
Officer is in a good mood, even says nicely “you were going a little fast”
Driver escalates by arguing.
Officer remains calm, simply asks for license.
Driver escalates by trying to make excuses so he doesn’t have to hand over license. A major red flag for a trained officer. Why don’t you want me to run your license? Warrants? APB?
Officer eventually gets the info, goes back, writes a simple speeding ticket.
Driver escalates by refusing to sign.
Officer asks the man to step out of the vehicle, come back to the squad car.
Driver realizes he’s being placed under arrest, escalates the situation by ignoring the officer.
Officer pulls his taser. Maybe this escalates it, but what is the cop supposed to do at this point? The cop has every right to place the driver under arrest and the driver is refusing to be cuffed. I suppose he could try wrestling him to the ground. Not a very big cop though, and he’s alone. Decent chance the guy ends up with the cop’s gun. Cop could pull his gun and hope that threat snaps the driver back to reality. Driver hasn’t been rational yet and if the driver continues his escalations the cop is really out of options since he can’t put his gun away and then pull the taser.
Driver ignores the taser, further escalating the situation, and gets tased.
Look at all the opportunities this driver had to stop this situation before the ultimate escalation resulted in him getting tased.
Oh well, I’m not a cop, and I’m not one of these retards who thinks the cop was in the wrong who will themselves probably end up getting tased (or maybe shot once the liberals abolish taser use) one day because they fail to see how the driver brought the tasing on himself.