You're not sure about the lady part?
Maybe not little. But not intimidating either way. Could you have restrained her without a weapon?
I wasn't there.
So go ahead and tell me how difficult it has been for your to restrain old women. That way we can compare it to your experience.
This isn't about me.
You made the claim that any officer who couldn't restrain someone without a non-lethal option (you said 'weapon') didn't deserve to be a cop.
I'm merely curious on what experience with arresting people you made your claim.
I'm not a police officer. You obviously are. Now that you got your big 'GOTCHA' out of the way that we all saw coming a mile away, how about you answer the question?
You brought up my experience so I'm asking about yours. In your experience, how difficult has it been for you to restrain old women?
Arresting anyone, old, young, large, or small ... male or female, exposes an officer (and the person being arrested) at risk.
A police arrest isn't a bar fight. You can't just keep smacking a person until they comply. You have to arrest them, using the least of amount of force required. You have to avoid injuries to yourself and the person being arrested to the greatest degree possible. Your actions in the arrest are subject to public and legal scrutiny.
In order to cuff someone, you need to get both arms behind the back. If a person resists, you have to use reasonable force to get them into that position. Typically, a resisting arrest is done by two officers. One to hold the person, the other to cuff.
Without benefit of a second officer, the job will require more force applied to the back and shoulders to hold the person down as well as the force pulling on the persons arms. For an older person, the minimum force required to achieve that is likely to cause physical injury. Tendon, ligament, nerve damage or a fracture becomes likely.
To reduce the will of a resisting person to fight back, police officers have non-lethal options available. They have a collapsible baton, they have OC spray, and they have a TASER (those options will vary by department). Those options are used to subdue the resisting person to the point where minimum physical force is required to affect the arrest.
In this case, the officer used his TASER. In my opinion, a good option based on what I can see in the video. A baton would have done a lot of physical damage, OC spray takes a lot of after care and can be lethal to a person suffering from COPD or other respiratory problems. Her obesity is a factor here.
The TASER has an extremely low probability of being lethal. There have been fewer than 200 deaths in custody where a TASER was used. In no case was the TASER deemed to be a contributing factor to that death. In a study of 1,000 taser incidents, only three of those persons TASER'd required hospital after-care, and not one was fatal.