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Agreed. I found the following rule...

"If an arrestee is actively resisting an officer, the officer may take reasonable measures to control the subject and take him or her into custody. These reasonable measures or tactics include standing control, takedowns, ground control, and the use of less-lethal weapons such as electronic control devices (TASERs) and O.C. spray."

If we all agree on the rule, then the single moral and legal question is whether Officer Potter in that instant thought she had a TASER in her hand rather than a Glock. We can't read her mind, we can only see her actions. And we can know whether she was sober and not on drugs.

I doubt that the prosecution will find a single psychologist trained outside of North Korea who would claim that a person can never in heat of battle be mistaken in the way that Potter appears to have been.








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― W.C. Fields


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