Utah Cop and Taser

There's evidently a video going around showing a Utah cop tasering someone who had been pulled over for speeding. The gist is that the guy got tasered for speeding.

Wrong. He got tasered for not complying with the officer's instructions. The officer was evidently on single patrol. They were in the middle of nowhere. There's a rule which everyone should be made to memorize. If you want to debate, do it in court. Don't challenge the police officer on the scene.

I don't want to be a cop, but I'm glad other people do. It's a dangerous world out there and cops are the ones who stand between us and a lot of the craziness. Sometimes, they aren't ideal human beings, but to repeat a point I just made, I don't want to be one. The people who want to sit on review panels don't want to be cops. They just want to criticize cops. As Jack Nicholson said in "A Few Good Men," we want these people doing what they do.

This is a job where you spend almost all your time dealing with people who are doing things they shouldn't and know it. Occasionally, the circumstances may be in dispute but an arrest scene is not the time or place.

We had a cop in nearby Springfield who tracked down a kid who had stolen a truck. Middle of the night, deserted area. The kid wouldn't get out of the truck and eventually the cop shot him. Family, despite a general aura of criminality, got a lot of sympathy. Not from me. Do what the cop says. If you're not happy sort it out later. But do what the cop says. If you even create the appearance of a possibility of a threat, be prepared for violence. And no sympathy.