I don't care what species of human fights with police. If anybody fights with the police like the negro in Atlanta did, they should be shot DEAD! The motto of many police departments is to "Protect and serve." It is to protect and serve the public. Not criminals. That criminal might just as easily grabbed a gun. But instead he grabbed a tazer. Well if you are stupid enough to bring a taser to a gun fight, you deserve to die. And as soon as the tazer was forced from the cop's hand, that right there would have been a good excuse to shoot him on the spot. Not wait for him to run off.
Also, it is the job of cops to capture criminals. Not let them run away. And the guy probably resisted because he was guilty of something. To protect the public, you can't let them get away. Because you don't know what they might do next. And if you do start letting them run away, more will do it. Then they will start looking at cops as more of a joke. When that happens, more crimes are likely to occur.
Goes without saying the police cannot make exceptions for any criminal on a regular basis or as standard operating procedure. But such arguments are purely academic after action dissection of an incident that in real time happened over the span of few moments and involved two police officers fighting for both their own lives and to protect the lives of nearby innocents from a man attempting to gain the upper hand and kill them in order to escape arrest. Something else the media is not talking about: the two cops in this case likely could have subdued and cuffed this guy had they not been worried about accusations of use of excessive force. In other words, had one of these two cops taken a knee on the perpetrator's neck then the perp wouldn't have gotten one of their tasers and might still be alive and the shooter cop might still have his badge and Wendy's would still be serving burgers and hundreds if not thousands of Georgian lives might not have been interrupted by a blocked major highway. Liberalism, radicalized or not—in any form—is a disease that causes men to eat their own children. Precisely because leftist media coverage of Chauvin's knee on Floyd's neck set the world aflame, another black man died by cop, more private property burned, and more douche bag "protestors" carried out acts of terror against American civilians. Behold: the circle of democrat/postmodernist logic and reasoning.
I don't think the officers in this case should be disciplined as they were following the procedures they were taught. Personally, I would have handled it differently. The guy was drunk and asleep, behind the wheel of his car. He was cooperative until they tried to cuff him. I would have done the breathalyzer, confirming his intoxication, BUT, I would have asked him to get on his phone and call someone that could pick him up and take him home and taken his car keys so that he couldn't drive the vehicle. If it was established that the person picking him up would only be a short while out, I'd have waited to ensure that he was being picked up. Further, I would have impounded the vehicle and informed him that he could pick the vehicle up from the impound lot, after he was sober and that would have been the end of it.
