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Originally Posted by mountain_hare
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Potential for injury to anyone, not ability. (That anyone most likely being the chap in question, not the cop).
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According to eyewitness testimony, there was no 'potential for injury', because the student was willing to leave the campus. There was only 'potential for injury' when the police grabbed him. If the police hadn't manhandled him in the first place, there would have been no chance of 'potential for injury'. |
Your MSNBC link does not support the bolded claims.
Officers were escorting Tabatabainejad out of the computer lab when the trouble started, according to the Daily Bruin. One of the officers placed a hand on one of his arms, to which the student objected.
Unless one is prepared to accept uncritically the notion that the officer laid a hand on him for no good reason, it seems entirely possible that the kid did something to indicate that he would not leave the building.
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The old saw about prevention being better than cure: Better to stop a struggle in its tracks with a Taser than to allow it to progress.
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1. No 'struggle' would have occurred in the first place if the officers had have been diplomatic, instead of resorting to force.
2. There are numerous other ways of dealing with a struggling individual. They could have just released him, as he was no threat to the community, and was only 'struggling' because he was being groped by law enforcement.
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None of this can be reliably inferred from any evidence you have presented.
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Why don't you advocate the tasering of an unruly child to force compliance?
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Congratulations on having asked one of the most magnificently airheaded questions I've ever seen.