so..im trying to play devil's advocate here.

Let's say the woman was a complete ass and completely disrespectful to the cop and let's even say she was talking on her cell phone so that there was actually a law broken. Let's say she did everything negative except actually being violent or being a threat.

and let's even say that the taser is completely 100 percent safe.

when is it ok to use non-lethal force on someone who is resisting and being antagonistic but yet not being violent and is completely NOT a threat.

If I was a police officer and I had to choose between getting physical/baton/fists/etc and just pressing a button on a compliance device, I'd want to just press a button too. Anyone would I suspect. How long do you attempt to reason with someone before saying, ok we're just spinning our wheels here and accomplishing nothing...time to take you in whether you like it or not.

My problem with the actual situation is that yeah, the taser is not non-lethal, it is LESS-lethal, big difference. so even if the woman was talking on her phone and thus committed a crime, I'd have a problem with using a taser on someone, risking their lives over something like that. ESPECIALLY since the woman posed absolutely zero threat.

And then you have the kids, even if you arrested her without incident, you still got two kids sitting there crying and scared as fuck. In the best situation the dad would go pick them up, but even that would take a ton of time and you still have the car sitting there. At worst, you've got no one to pick the kids up and you have to have another officer (a stranger to the kids) watch over them until the situation is resolved. Even in the best situation, the cops seem ill equipped to deal with that sort of situation.

There's got to be a better way to arrest people for smaller crimes like that instead of pulling them over and dragging them out of the car I can't stand people who talk on phones either and would agree there needs to be punishment for that as it is a risk to other drivers, but I REALLY don't want a situation like this either. Seems it would be safer for the cop too.

give me some robot cars damnit, remotely shut them down or divert them to the police station while locking the vehicle so they can't just jump out and a video screen notifying them of the infraction and communication with the cops so they can make arrangements for kids or other odd situations.

something that forces them to comply, but without endangering anyone needlessly.

i am ashamed to be a citizen of this piece of shit cuntry. mutha fuk the police!!!

Tasers have been used and abused TOO MANY MOTHER FUCKIN TIMES ALREADY! If the police, in general, cant use them responsibly, THEY SHOULDN'T BE USED AS A LAW ENFORCEMENT TOOL!