I'm telling you, tasers don't hurt, now stop screaming

Check out this video of a cop tasering a woman via Stone Bridge.

Stone Bridge notes that the cop remarks, likely for benefit of the camera (a) that it didn’t hurt, and (b) that she took a swing at the second officer and thus the taser.

She didn’t take a swing. Stone Bridge didn’t observe a swing and neither did I.

And those were shrieks from pain, and pain moans. No faking there. No performance. It hurt like hell. Did more than hurt like hell. It rendered her unable to do anything but be pain for a while there. As the shrieks begin to subside and the cop tells her to put her arms behind her back and she says she can’t, she means it. Pain will do that. She is unable to control her body at that point.

As I observed for Stone Bridge, I don’t think the cop remarked on the (a) it didn’t hurt, and (b) you took a swing, just for benefit of the camera. I think he also did it trying to convince the woman. The pain/shock brainwashing version of ecstatic experience leaving a person open to reordering of perception. I think he was trying to reorder her perception of the experience so that she would believe it must not hurt and that she is thus over-reacting and at fault, and I imagine he’s trying to reorder her experience so that her flailing about on the ground in pain is rewritten to be her taking a swing.

At least those are my thoughts on it.

Both officers, it appears, are white? The woman is black. Commentary on the page defending the action is from a black cop.

People have died from tasering.

The cops don’t appear to flinch at all when the woman is lying on the ground screaming. All in a days work.