Trumbull officer being sued in federal court over Tasering

... if you are in failing or fragile health, don't do anything that will warrant an officer using a tazer on your sorry butt! We all make choices in the is life and sometimes the choice may have serious consequences. These are a few of those. That being said, I'm not convinced of the wisdom of putting such weapons in the hands of law enforcement. Batons, pepper spray and the ultimate, a handgun should be all that is available to officers. Once you graduate to the hand gun level of enforcement, you're pretty stoopid to continue to act in such a manner. Ask 'em, order 'em, spray 'em, shoot 'em. All else is PC folly.

Its to bad that if someone is voilating the law that it becomes the officers fault. If you break the law sorry about your luck because you get what you deserve.

I'd rather get tazed than sprayed and beat on with a baton. It's just another case of people working every angle they can to get money.

Sometimes officers excessively use tasers and pepper spray and sometimes they use them without just cause. Trust me im in law enforcement and this does happen just as does officers writing bad tickets for the quota system.

Wooly...you are not a cop. It is the Internet, but your lies are not impressing anyone.

Bottom line, don't warrant anything to be in that position.

Tasers will never be banned in this country. The amount of officer involved shootings have plummeted thanks to the use existense of the taser. And yes, the taser is most certainly a non-lethal weapon, in fact more so than the asp baton. Using an asp on a person is literally beating them with a steel rod, one slip up and strike to the wrong part of the body and it's lawsuit city. Deploying the taser is not only safer for the officer, but proven much safer for the violator in terms of escalating use of force. OC spray (censoredship)? Yeah it works on most people but if you have ever been sprayed, you'd know that it takes several minutes to set in and the fight will be on for those few minutes! Chances are the officer is going to get exposed too and take him right out of the fight which is why many departments are eliminating oc spray all together. Granted the taser should not be used until warranted, it is the greatest tool in law enforcement and will be for a looong time to come. Things will happen and people will get hurt, but luckily for them we live in the United States where there are more attorrney's than we know what to do with! And just a question censoredship, but just curious as to what information you have that leads you to believe that officers aren't being properly trained other than newspaper articles telling us how an officer is getting sued? Bottom line is, if a person isn't decent enough to keep themselves in line, sorry about their luck!

ROSKOUT thanks for telling me about my own personal life. Since you know so much about me could you refresh my memory about what year it was that i won the James DeGarmo Scholarship at YSU I have forgotten when that was? Also let me know what time my Masters degree graduation will be this year at YSU.

Oh ill be graduating this spring then i will leave my job as a correction officer to pursue my career as a NYPD Homicide Detective. I decided I might as well answer that myself ROSKOUT.