Look at the situation agnostic of what you know of as the law.
People in modern society have been so well-trained to look at things objectively from the perspective of The Law vs. The Individual.
Wouldn't you be offended if some "authority" came to your home and decided to inspect what you were doing?
I completely understand both sides. I know the police were doing what they have been programmed to, and the civilians were reacting the way our anti-authoritarian subculture has told them too, but there is a middle ground.
Between the two parties I believe the police acted most appropriately because they showed doubt and restraint (regardless of it being out of ignorance or self-restraint). In the end the situation could have been resolved best by openness and honesty on both parts, but that's the one element that our current state has beaten into submission.

OMFG that is the biggest cop-out I've ever seen. A single officer with a nightstick can beat someone into submission if necessary. To have TWO COPS shooting TWO TASERS at someone is not only wrong, it is murder when it kills, as we see that it did. We have a few Sifters with actual law enforcement training and experience who should be calling you out on that the moment they see that ...observation.

I would very much appreciate the voice of experience in that regard. And it's not a cop-out - it's my viewpoint. If someone who knows better from experience can educate me otherwise, then my viewpoint will change.
From my personal perspective, if I became agitated, disruptive, and potentially dangerous in a public place due to being "weakened by fatigue, hunger, fear, nicotine deprivation, and panic" to the point where I was not capable of rationally responding to the commands of law enforcement, I'd much prefer to be subdued with a Taser than "beaten into submission" with a nightstick. That said, I definitely believe that anyone who is issued a Taser for use should be required to experience its effects firsthand.

So right now in America censorship is rife, free speech is under attack, and subverters are being at best sacked from their jobs and at worst tazered and beaten into submission. Bush is by all accounts now the great dictator of the free world.

Welcome to 1930s Nazi Germany. All the boxes are now ticked. We are doomed.