The Tazer Tango...

So lately there's been a disturbing national trend of serious injury and fatalities due to taser use that may or may not have been questionable on the part of the law enforcement involved. The media has been working itself to a froth with dash-cam footage, local news footage, and average Joe with a digicam footage of everyday people doing the newest dance sensation in the USA, the taser tango. Usually it involves one misguided 'normal' person, and one or several law enforcement personnel with what appears to be an itching to do a forceable version of the electric slide. The media would have you believe that it's a crisis, all these taser deaths and injuries, and it is indeed a tragedy at the least! But I tend to fall into this school of thought:

If you don't want to run the risk of injury or, unfortunately, possible death.. DON'T FIGHT WITH THE POLICE! Golly that's simple to figure out. They have guns, they have clubs, and they have tasers! They also have a job to do that the average person wouldn't touch. You have the right to remain silent and get a lawyer. So please help yourself and do just that! I can't talk about the old days because I've only graced this planet for about 28 years, but what ever happened to respecting the police? Yeah you're pissed about the speeding ticket and the injustice in the world. How dare that cop talk to you like that, ticket you, or ask you to allow others to talk at a public forum! Meanwhile somewhere out in the world children are being sold into slavery, and people are getting violently killed because of their religion. What ever happened to having a little perspective! Yes you do have rights, and yes people died so you could have them! But acting like an entitled sniffling little candy-*** baby isn't a right as far as the constitution is concerned, so until your lobby can get that amendment added.. DON'T FIGHT WITH THE POLICE! My guess is that 99.9999% of the time you will lose. The only level playing field is a court of law.. (on a good day.)
These knuckle-heads have to understand that your job when interacting with the police is to balance the safeguarding of your rights with the understanding that for safety reasons they are trained dominate and control the situation. Because we have a judicial system 'making a stand' in some of these situations is pointless, and only creates chaos that can put you, the officer, and the surrounding public at risk. Case and point is the 'Don't Tase Me Bro' guy. If he'd have gone to court, people would have been long talking about the significance of the ruling on civil liberties. Instead his poor choice made the issue into office water-cooler joke. He really stood up for the cause alright. I do believe that the taser should not have been used in this case, but people have to understand that the police have to control the situation as a matter of public safety. This guy's irrational and aggressive behavior only agitated the situation, and put the very-much human and fallible police presence in a position of having to make a quick decision for the surrounding public and themselves. Yes they made a poor choice in using the taser, but my observation in this 'type' of situation is that it takes two to do the taser tango!