Oh good grief! Amnesty International and the UN are now calling the use of tasers torture and are calling for a ban on them.
Yes, a handful of people have died as a result, either directly or indirectly, from being tasered, but hundreds more are subdued by police without any real physical harm being done to them. Before police started using tasers the only options they had to subdue the violent and uncooperative suspects was to use pepper spray or physical abuse including clubbing them with a baton.
Which is preferable? Using an electric shock device to subdue a fighting suspect or beating them into submission? I'd say a beating would be far more likely to result in real physical damage.
Let's get real here folks. Police are not just going around tasering people for jaywalking. The people here are resisting arrest, fighting, or out of control. I have watched dozens of videos of people being tased by police and in almost every case this was a person who was not only uncooperative with police but outright resisting arrest or fighting the police.
There have been a few cases where the police may have been a little too quick to use the taser. This means we needs better training and guidelines for when an officer should and shouldn't use the device, not a ban on their use.
Perhaps some of these people want the police to simply beat people into submission. Perhaps they think that if a person puts up a fight the police should simply allow them to get away. Who knows what these people are thinking. The bottom line is that if you don't want the police to taser your dumb ass, don't try to fight them and you'll be ok.
It isn't the cop's job to say "pretty please, behave yourself out of control person", it's to subdue and arrest such a person. Period.
But then, maybe beating them half to death isn't such a bad idea after all.