Quote Originally Posted by Catbus View Post
That's considered 'inciting a riot'?

He definitely should have cooperated with the officers, but still, tasering a guy on the ground encircled by 4-5 officers is a bit ridiculous.
Yes, inciting a riot is encouraging others to riot or otherwise violently oppose police. Him pushing and shoving and jumping around shows that he felt the need to aggressively oppose police, and by calling out for help, he was encouraging other people to do the same. The only thing worse he could've done, would be to actually attack the officers.

Just imagine what would've happened if someone responded to his cries for help and started attacking the police. Then the police would have to retaliate against that person as well, and it would just snowball into a riot scenario.

Whether or not you think it's easy to handle someone from resisting arrest shouldn't matter. I can assure you, it's not as easy as it sounds, even with 5 people. Nonetheless, the officers tried and it failed so they proceeded to other methods. After being tased, he stopped resisting as much, and he didn't suffer any long-term injuries. Thus, the taser was effective in doing exactly what it's meant for.

Once again I must ask: "What would have been the better solution?" If you're only response is: "They should've carried him. There was 5 of them." That's insufficient, because (regardless of your opinion about how easy it should be) they tried that and it failed.