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Swimmer - I hear you on most of your points. Well stated,by the way.
You said that you never hit anyone with a flashlight. Ever tase or spray anyone? Would you be more likely to tase than to hit?
Here's the thing. We are supposed to be policed by fellow citicens who are protecting and serving socitey. To me, the idea of police walking around electrocuting anyone who doesn't "submit" is very 1980's sci-fi, and terribly un-American. I can't imagine that the framers of the constitution would have approved of this type of law enforcement. Why don't we all just wear shock collars and give police remote controls, that way they aren't limited by the range of the taser? Do you see what I'm getting at here? So it was done in reaction to lawsuits - great, some lawyer figured out that you can't prove how much pain you were in (unlike visibly obvious stitches). This is just one more thing that makes us a little less free.
What was the original crime here? Talking. The police (plural) attempted to restrain the person, and he resisted being restrained - so they electrocuted him. If people don't have the right to speak out without being electrocuted, what right do they have?
I'm not saying the situation didn't warrant some type of intervention, but the question is one of degree. There were enough cops to grab a limb and carry him right out of there.
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