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Give me a f*&*ing break. The first decision was made by this individual as a POLICE OFFICER, so his decision was in an OFFICIAL capacity; therefore, it was a POLICE decision. Also, don't make it sound like I was using the term "po-leeze" because I wasn't.
The second decision was made by this fellow as an INDIVIDUAL. He was not in any official capacity. It's too bad he shot himself, but it only proves he was a bad decision maker in his capacity as a Police Lieutenant and as an individual.
BTW, I'm not choking on my sarcasm. Cops go through Taser training. During that training they are shot with a Taser gun to demonstrate the effects. Being shot by a Taser results in complete loss of voluntary control of your muscles, that is what makes a Taser effective in controlling a suspect.
The now deceased individual would have known that as a Police Officer trained in the use of Tasers. He knows that an air bag is on the way, but he has a guy on a ledge shot with a device that results in complete loss of bodily control. What did he expect was going to happen? That the guy was going to float down and make a soft landing on to asphalt? The decision was stupid and it deserved sarcasm, just as the decision to shoot a guy, repeatedly with a Taser, in the Vancouver airport was stupid and also deserved sarcasm.