Yeah, but he was in handcuffs...so he wasn't a deadly threat. Had he not been detained, I would've had to shoot him. I was alone w/ this guy, and when we got to jail, i thought he was having a diabetic attack...so i had an ambulance meet us at the jail. They said his blood sugar was normal, but he needed to be hospitalized, so i put him back in my patrol car and we went to the jail. We got to the jail, and I opened the back door. He noticed there were no fences, and he was determined to run away. He tried to knock me down, but we both went to the ground. The ONLY reason I was able to get on top of him and hold him down till backup came was b/c he was still in handcuffs...although I was kicked in the face several times. When backup got there, I got off of him, and we told him to calm down or he would be tased. He stood up and said, "I am a soldier, I will never quit, hut 2". So we shot him with the taser. Every time the taser let up, he would get up and try to run away, or charge us again. After several minutes, he pulled the tasers out and attacked another officer. I was able to get ahold of him, pick him up, and slam the shit out of him. This knocked the breath out of him and allowed a long enough window so that me and another officer could get back on top of him and hold him down...this is the point when the nurses were like "Hold him there, we got some stuff that will put him to sleep".
Now, I know that someone will comment about the overuse of the taser...like I said we did tase him about 8 times. I must itterate, that first, I was not the one doing the tasing...I do not carry a taser...I'd rather fight it out. But this guy should've been tased...Now, I do think that 8 times is a little too much, but like I said, it wasn't me tasing. I think that after about 2 times, then you know it ain't working, and you need to try something different. But, it was the supervisor who was tasing, so I let him do his thing.