Pigs Vs. Cattle, We think of cops as pigs, they think of us as cattle.

A worst case scenario can happen more often that you think.  
..for every video we see on youtube, how many times does it happen where there's no one recording it.
http://www.ohiobikelawyer.com/uncategorized/2010/01/court-says-cops-cant-use-tasers-like-cattle-prods/
Kelly Thomas in Fullerton, CA
In this video, you can hear Kelly Thomas screaming for his father.  "Dad, Dad, Dad!" are his last conherent words before he slips into a coma and dies several days later.  All while roughly half a dozen highly trained and armed law enforcement officers surround him and shock him with a taser and insist that he stop resisting.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2019225/Kelly-Thomas-Police-beat-taser-gentle-mentally-ill-homeless-man-death.html

After you watch this video, I'd like for you to imagine yourself lying on cold pavement, lights strobing and flashing in your eyes, surround by six angry armed men.  They are screaming at you and hitting you and finally they shock you with a taser.  You're laying on the ground bloody, bruised, possible broken ribs and nose from being kicked and beaten, you can't see, you're throbbing with so much pain and then suddenly 50,000 volts goes through your body.  Would you be resisting anything or would you just be too overwhelmed and scared shitless and screaming for your daddy like Kelly Thomas was?

Was he REALLY resisting the whole time?  At what point was he only technically resisting by not complying with the officers orders  I think it'd be fair to say, if you're only continuing to resist arrest by not complying with the officer's orders because said officers have terrorized and traumatized you beyond the point of complete submission, then you're really just being legally tortured.

What to do about it? 

• I support rules and laws enforcing the use of a taser as a last resort to lethal force, not as a compliance tool. 
• I support better training, rules and laws for officers.  Especially training that involves teaching officers when they've completely subdued a suspect and especially rules and laws which punishes those who continue on past the point where they should've just slapped some cuffs on the poor bastard and called it a day. Common sense and probably any trained torture expert would tell you that anyone overwhelmed with enough force will at some point just lie there and take it.  They are in a state of shock and can no longer respond.  In case you'd like to argue with that, I thought I'd put a Guantanamo Bay photo up, here you can see someone who's really being tortured.   I can't help but see several startling similarities between what happened to Kelly Thomas and whoever this guy is in that photo from Guantanamo.  

Found this photo at:  Whitechic Press

The main problem is officers using a technicality of law instead of their own sense of compassion, they don't care, they want an excuse to torture someone.  
Look at the case of Darrin Ring,
daily mail / Darrin Ring Article

Youtube version of Darrin Ring beating, he wasn't acting dangerous and for some reason they didn't immediately assertain whether or not he was armed, this is a perfect example of what officers shouldn't be allowed to do, once you've overwhelmed someone with so much force, you can't expect them to comply with your orders.  

Here you can watch Darrin Ring, he was a little drunk and out of it and he didn't obey the officers instructions to keep his hands out of his pockets on a cold, snowy night.

If you take nothing else away from watching the video, I want you to notice the most important point of this video is that they had him subdued, he wasn't a threat to any of the officers standing over him, he simply wasn't complying with their instructions.  They continued to try to force him to comply rather than what they should be doing, which is cuffing him and putting him in the squad car.  Once officers get someone down, and its obvious they are no longer resisting or able to resist, a police officer should face real jail time if they continue to apply force because often the individual is too shellshocked, hurt, barely conscious enough to respond to their demands.

I hate it when cops try to justify footage like this saying it's their job, he was dangerous, blah blah.  Always apply common sense, the bottom line here is if you're truly afraid of someone, if you think they're dangerous, if you think they might use a weapon against you.  You're going to subdue that person and get them cuffed as quickly as possible so they are no longer a threat to you.  Put yourself in that situation, if you're truly afraid of someone, are you going to beat them, shock them, play monkey compliance games with them?  No you wouldn't care about any of that, you'd just wanna cuff them so they can't hurt you.  And right there is the easiest and most common sense litmus test when you judge situations like this, were the officers afraid or not.  

At the rodeo they judge you on how fast you can hogtie an animal.  Any officers should be naturally good at this, we should be watching videos on youtube showing how few seconds it took to take down a resisting suspect, not videos of six fat cops standing around shocking some poor bastard with a taser trying to get him to turn over on his stomach when they've already brutalized him mentally and physically to the point where he can't do anything.