BART cops shoot unarmed man - had "criminal history"

Originally Posted by Elfstar

they think a gun should be easier to reach for than a non-lethal taser, which kind of makes you wonder why they'd bother giving them tasers in the first place.

Presumably a gun should be easier to reach because situations that call for using a gun at all are more extreme and require immediate reaction, whereas if you just want to taser some drunk asshole, it doesn't much matter if you take a few more seconds to do it. At least that's my assumption, maybe I'm way off. Not that this situation isn't tragically stupid.

Jam it back in, in the dark.