Kids, here's a bit of advice: if a cop pulls you over and tells you to get out of the car, stop what you're doing and get out of the car.
A woman in Boynton Beach, Florida had to learn that the hard way. As you'll see in
the first of two videos, the woman was pulled over for speeding - the cop said she was going 51 in a 35 - and she had a broken tail light, cracked windshield, and wasn't wearing a seatbelt. As soon as the cop out out of the car she tried to open the door of the SUV and get out. When the cop told her to stay in the vehicle she informed him that she would do what she wanted, and cursed him out at every turn.
The officer calls for backup, finally gets her license and registration, and goes back to the car to run a check on her. In the
second video, he comes back and tells her to get out of the vehicle, but she refuses, saying she's on the phone with someone to come to the scene. The cop told her to get out of the SUV SIX TIMES, and in the last four warned her that she would be tasered if she did not comply. Another officer came on the scene on the passenger side, and when he tried to take the cell phone out of her hand, she swung at him.
That's when the officer finally tasered her. You'll hear a very high pitched scream from the woman as she was tasered, and she hit the ground. After she failed to place her hands behind her back, she was tasered again.
After hearing about a prior incident that
left a man dead, I haven't been a big fan of taser use. But in this instance, the officer appropriately did his job. This woman was hostile the whole time, despite knowing she was in the wrong from the get-go, she cursed the officer out, she never responded to his requests, he asked her several times to get out of the vehicle yet failed, called someone on a cell phone and told him they had a gun pointed at her, and started to resist when they moved in on her.
She had no one to blame for that incident but herself, and even in that I bet she was being a bit melodramatic. She acted as if she was about to die.
