She got pulled over for failing to signal while changing lanes... how does that escalate to pulling out the taser and threatening to light someone up.
Yeah, that was quite excessive. I can't say I've never wanted to taser someone for failing to signal, though.
Tasering random people is just a perk of being a cop !
STORY TIME... BECAUSE I'M BORED.
I've only seen one instance of a cop tasing someone in real life. I was driving through a neighborhood, and suddenly a guy runs across the street further down the road and dives into a trash can. He crawls out, finds another trash can, repeats the process, and runs out of sight.
I stop nearby to visit some friends, and as I'm standing at the door I see the guy doing the trashcan bit yet again, and afterwards he heads down the road in my direction. I don't think too much on it, as the door to the house opens and I begin chatting. Suddenly I hear him behind me, trying to open the waist-high gate that leads to the yard. He can't do it, so he just hops over it and
runs into the house. As this point nobody has a clue what to do since it's such a weird situation, but shortly thereafter a lady cop walks right by the house, talking on a handheld radio. I motion to the cop, and surely enough she is looking for someone suspicious in the area. The man runs out of the house and the cop motions for him to come over to her. He complies long enough for the cop to grab him, which isn't too bright because there is a gate between them.
Long story short, a metric crap ton of cop cars, fire trucks, and an ambulance show up rather fast as the man fights off several people and resists the effects of being tased twice until he's finally subdued and hog tied in the middle of the street.
I learned an important lesson from that very surreal occasion: If you want to resist the effects of being tased, do a
lot of drugs.
