I'm one of those 50 year old father types who "pathologically" drives the speed limit and I was pulled over on an interstate by a policeman who accused me driving 26 mph over. After a somewhat heated conversation he walked to the front of the car and it was clear from the look on his face he realized he had pulled over the wrong car. He just walked back by the window and threw my id in without saying a word. Had I been a teenager or black I certainly would have been given a ticket.

People speed all the time, very few people contest tickets and generally when they do its just their word against the police. The judge should have dismissed this case when the evidence was presented. In the time he's fooling around with this he could have handled a dozen other cases.

My son is handicapped, can't walk but otherwise looks like anyone else. With his wheelchair in the trunk, looking at him in the car, he looks able-bodied.

I live in total fear of a policeman, like this one, shouting at him to get out of the car and ultimately tasing, or even worse, shooting him when he doesn't get out. No doubt the same people defending this guy will be saying "he could have had a shot gun on his lap."

The policeman doesn't say he going to arrest him until after he's been tased, and then he lies to the other policeman about giving a warning. Even then, he knew what he did was unsupportable.

I agree with a post that someone made earlier. This is part of the overall corsening of America. When you watch COPS you see the police are often incredibly more brutal than is needed. If they act that way on camera, what's going on other times?

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Well the DA disagrees with you. All charges were dropped except the speeding charge. Even with a vidio of the whole thing they knew there was no evidence of resisting arrest.

I agree though, he wasn't tasered for refusing to sign a ticket, he was tasered because the policeman is a loose cannon who was having a bad day.

Maybe I'm obtuse but it wasn't clear to me he was going to be arrested when he told him to turn around. If a policeman asked me to get out of the car at a traffic stop I'd assume it was for a drunk test. Can you really be resisting arrest when no one says, "you're going to be arrested?" I don't think so and the DA evidently agrees because all other charges have been dropped. So, it looks like he was tasered for refusing to sign a ticket.

Presumably this policeman was supposed to be patroling the highway to make it safer for everybody. Instead he but on a show at the side of the road and spent the day at headquarters typing up a report. He should get another job.

Don't be absurd, Tasers have been around for over 20 years. Originally, they were used in place of lethal force, instead of shooting with a bullet you Tasered them. Now they're being used to force compliance, which is a very different thing.

Amazing to me are the people complaining about posting the video. Geez, we have indisbutable evidence of what happened and most people agree that the policeman over reacted and escalated the situation to a huge misuse of police time. He should find another job.