The father was pulling his son away from the police officer.

The officer pulled out a semi-lethal weapon and shot the father with it. There was no cause for that, and it almost killed the man.

The other son tackles the cop. He did not mean to paralyze him.

So, I'm not feeling that this verdict is that terrible. The cop used to much force, deadly force, and was tackled from behind. It's refreshing to see the police don't have the protection of the law when they overstep it.

As for cops being bastions of justice, who want to protect people from criminals...
Maybe you people can tell, me of all the crimes reported in this thread, why not a single one was reported by the police? Why all the information had to be dragged from their files?

As a side note, I hate tazers too. They've become a tool of torture to force compliance. We detest torture in other places, why do we allow people to be tazered if they are nonviolently resisting? How is causing pain to force the citizen to act as you wish any different from torture? They have some small use in confronting a person with a knife, but they've become widely abused as well.

The cops have started to use them whenever people don't listen. I've read multiple cases of cops tazering people passed out from diabetes or the like.

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