Video has surfaced of a reported Lancaster, Pennsylvania, police officer tasering a man who is unarmed and complying to the best of anyone’s abilities with the thug officer’s demands. According to the Associated Press, officers were responding to calls that a man was “confronting people with a bat.” Whether or not this is the same man, a few things are very clear: he is sitting on the floor complying, he clearly does not have a bat, and you can hear more police arriving.
In the video the officer is training the taser on the man, telling him to put his arms and legs straight forward. You can clearly hear the cop say “legs straight out,” followed by another police officer—off camera—SCREAMING for him to cross them. He crosses his legs, they taser him. As they are tasering him, another SUV filled with police officers arrives. The man, now brutalized, continues to comply.
It is unconscionable. If you have the stomach, you can watch the video below.