The issue with Tasers..

[GMDino]

(07-10-2019, 11:09 AM)Au165 Wrote: That is a straw man because frankly that has nothing to do with my question, your response and then my comment on your response. I was pointing out this situation and you added it was a "fight not a gun fight" which in itself is what triggered the pure fantasy comment. Trying to jump out of the context of the conversation does nothing in terms of productive conversation.

Was this person running away? Was he NOT engaged physically? You yourself said above you could possibly see it being acceptable here but you "still have your reservations". If this situation, which isn't anything like what you talked about above, is raising skepticism then my point still stands. 

Again in THIS situation.  And while not all fights are the same what if the cop was bigger and the suspect was a small MMA fighter? At some point the officer feels threatened enough to use deadly force.  Ok.  But not all fights are the same.

Then you said "the public needs to reset their expectations of what an officer's risk threshold is because right now it seems to be based on fantasy. "


I responded to that statement as a separate point about different situations that are not "fantasy".