We don't know the whole story and there is no way for us to accurately judge or justify (or NOT justify) the actions of either side based upon what we have viewed in this video.
Many of you have mentioned that it takes a couple minutes, and in one instance "15 minutes" to recover from being shocked by the TASER - these are miss-leading and incorrect statements. As part of a thesis I wrote in college - I personally was shocked by the X26 TASER (the same device that was used on the young man in this video).
During my research, I personally received two consecutive shots from the X26 at a range of 10 feet away...When the device was deployed, two straight fish-hooks punctured my shirt, outer layer of my skin and then penetrated about one-eighth of an inch into my muscle tissue. This sounds horrific but it was almost a surreal feeling.
Each experience lasted for five seconds and what I felt at the time was NOT likened to pain; instead, it is best described as a complete loss of control...and once again "surreal".
A common miss-conception is that the TASER jolts at 50,000 volts - this is incorrect...50,000 volts is actually the "energy reserve" that the TASER has in store. In reality, the device sends a "low-level" current which is slightly higher than the same electrical current that our brain sends a muscle when our brain wants it to contract the muscle.
This current passes through your muscle tissue at an intensely fast interval (causing nine muscle contractions per second) and in doing so is over-riding the nervous system which is trying to compensate and bring these contractions under control - At this point all your energy is diverted into muscle compensation...So, it's not a matter of all your muscles in your body contracting...instead, it's an issue of where none of your muscles are responding because your brain is not sending messages to them.
What is happening is occurring near the surface of the skin and ONLY between the points of the two darts. What the person experiences is muscle contraction beyond what is physiologically possible for the human body to perform on its own.
This is the part that makes people scream out because they go limp and can't respond. Imagine this, you do nine push-ups in one second...well, you know how crappy we feel when we do nine push-ups in thirty seconds...so just expedite that crappy feeling in a split second. When it's over, you're still able to get up, walk around, smile and say "hi" to your buddies....with the TASER it's a million times dummied-down in that the only thing happening to you is that your muscles are getting a mini-super-workout.
In my case, when the TASER was shut off - I recovered instantly and was able to stand up and walk around with no pain whatsoever. In fact, I felt like I just got down with a massage.
It's important to remember that the TASER is an energy weapon...NOT, a stun gun.
Energy Weapons use multiple on/off and low-level electrical currents in order to stimulate muscle contraction. A stun-gun sends a solid arc current through muscle tissue which causes an electrical shock which can burn and kill muscle tissue.
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....with the TASER it's a million times dummied-down in that the only thing happening to you is that your muscles are getting a mini-super-workout.
We don't know the whole story and there is no way for us to accurately judge or justify (or NOT justify) the actions of either side based upon what we have viewed in this video.
Many of you have mentioned that it takes a couple minutes, and in one instance "15 minutes" to recover from being shocked by the TASER - these are miss-leading and incorrect statements. As part of a thesis I wrote in college - I personally was shocked by the X26 TASER (the same device that was used on the young man in this video).
During my research, I personally received two consecutive shots from the X26 at a range of 10 feet away...When the device was deployed, two straight fish-hooks punctured my shirt, outer layer of my skin and then penetrated about one-eighth of an inch into my muscle tissue. This sounds horrific but it was almost a surreal feeling.
Each experience lasted for five seconds and what I felt at the time was NOT likened to pain; instead, it is best described as a complete loss of control...and once again "surreal".
A common miss-conception is that the TASER jolts at 50,000 volts - this is incorrect...50,000 volts is actually the "energy reserve" that the TASER has in store. In reality, the device sends a "low-level" current which is slightly higher than the same electrical current that our brain sends a muscle when our brain wants it to contract the muscle.
This current passes through your muscle tissue at an intensely fast interval (causing nine muscle contractions per second) and in doing so is over-riding the nervous system which is trying to compensate and bring these contractions under control - At this point all your energy is diverted into muscle compensation...So, it's not a matter of all your muscles in your body contracting...instead, it's an issue of where none of your muscles are responding because your brain is not sending messages to them.
What is happening is occurring near the surface of the skin and ONLY between the points of the two darts. What the person experiences is muscle contraction beyond what is physiologically possible for the human body to perform on its own.
This is the part that makes people scream out because they go limp and can't respond. Imagine this, you do nine push-ups in one second...well, you know how crappy we feel when we do nine push-ups in thirty seconds...so just expedite that crappy feeling in a split second. When it's over, you're still able to get up, walk around, smile and say "hi" to your buddies
In my case, when the TASER was shut off - I recovered instantly and was able to stand up and walk around with no pain whatsoever. In fact, I felt like I just got down with a massage.
It's important to remember that the TASER is an energy weapon...NOT, a stun gun.
Energy Weapons use multiple on/off and low-level electrical currents in order to stimulate muscle contraction. A stun-gun sends a solid arc current through muscle tissue which causes an electrical shock which can burn and kill muscle tissue.