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What's your opinion about police using tasers as compliance weapons? I'm not talking about drive stun -- I'm talking about repeated discharging of the weapon on someone who was already tasered once. I've seen quite a few videos where police say, "Roll over (or do X) or else you're gonna get it again!" after the suspect has been shot once and is already on the ground.

I understand that for a rural officer dealing with an armed man, this is probably warranted and preferable to shooting him. But so many times, I see people who are unarmed and are merely non-compliant (for example, they're already on the ground but just not rolling over). Taser is meant to incapacitate, and the suspects are already incapacitated -- and yet the officer applies it again and again as a compliance tool. Is this how taser should be used? Is this how officers are trained?

I never actually expected a response to this, so thanks for taking the time to do so.

I agree that officers need to quickly go "hands on" after a taser deployment, but it seems too many of them think the taser is a panacea that solves all their problems for them. Thanks again.

Can you explain how you are not in violation of D.C. RPC 7.5(b) for failing to explicitly disclose that, while you are admitted in NY, you are not licensed to practice law in D.C.--the location of your office--on your website?