Okay no that was completely unnecessary. Looked like he was resisting arrest, but he wasn’t acting violent towards anyone.

Disgusting

I was there. It was definitely interesting seeing that at a ballgame. More exciting than what was happening on the field though, that’s for sure.

That was awful. I mean he was being a douche but that’s no reason to taze him, damn.

Did any of you read the description?

In all fairness to the OPD: there’s a ramp-up that you don’t see on the tape. Even though the guy shows his ticket, I don’t think that’s his seat. He came over a little earlier, super drunk. He wasn’t angry really, just obnoxious – hollering and making a scene. He was downing all these little bottles of vodka, and started harassing the kids behind him. A’s security came to check him out when he started yelling profanities.

When security told him to cool it, he got really belligerent. Started using racial epithets at the guards, etc. They told him to leave. He refused. They called in the cops. You see the rest of it.

Whether or not the tazing was necessary/appropriate, people will certainly disagree. The one thing I can tell you for sure is that this guy had no intention of leaving calmly on his own.

Sure, the bystander didn’t deserve getting shoved, but come on.

the heat seeking foul ball was a nice bonus…

Seriously though, there’s a hand full of seconds that elapse between the first taser shot that failed and the final zap to the back. The cop that was monkeying around with his toy could have, instead, assisted the other officers in restraining him.

Too bad the cops watching the parking lots lack this enthusiasm.

what are the odds. poor bastard.

I might be in the minority on this point of view here, but when a cop says move, you should move, and you definitely shouldn’t mouth off (I had a client that got himself and his girlfriend tazed and beaten by several cops for telling one of them to fuck himself after being told to go inside a bar…10-15 minutes later and without further provocation. They were both left with permanent scars and injuries.)

If you don’t and you’re an asshole about it, you really shouldn’t be surprised if something bad happens to you, even if you are totally 100% right in the first instance. As we’ve all seen, cops can lose it (and/or make mistakes) and you don’t want to be the instigator if/when they go bezerk. It simply isn’t worth it.

What are the effects of being tazed? Are there any long-term effects?

Try not to piss off the police. They have a shitty job.

However I am a firm believer of “do what the police told you to do.”

Think about it in this case, what if the Police tried to remove him by force and was punched in the eye and lost vision? Would we be contemplating “boy they should have just tazed him?”

Don’t taze me, Bro

was the victim of the “ghost” shove ala manu ginobili. when everyone was told to move away he walks right up to the situation with a camera to the guys face. police put a hand on him to back up, a’s staff gets between them and the guy pulls the staff member back with him to sell the shove. best part is when he yells “dont push me!” a fan goes to brace him and he actually does lose him balance over him and almost falls lol

as for the police, the one that tazed him was acting definitely doing that on his own because the current of it passes perfectly to anyone touching the person whom the needles hit. the other officers at the time were trying to cuff him and im sure were like wtf u doing to the officer in the back. you can see them take a few steps back right away. so yah its that officers bad

But without the extreme use of force Naked Wizard Tazed