I assume that if they bodily drag him from the vehicle and his shoulder is dislocated in the process, that none of you would be in favor of suing the cops for brutality.
It generally takes quite a bit of force, applied to very specific areas, to dislocate someone's shoulder. If a guy is
dead weight, then tasing him is inappropriate in my opinion. Under the circumstances I would hope that the legal ramifications for dislocating the man's shoulder would be similar to what I would get for doing the same thing, under the circumstances of trying to give first aid. What if the guy had hurt his spine, in some seizure or something? Tasing him could kill him. People
not in the throes of diabetic shock have died from being tased.
When a person is non-responsive and semi-conscious, it is unreasonable to expect them to comply with your orders, regardless of what your orders are, and why they are semi-conscious. The proper response should be to provide first aid or call someone who knows how. Turn off and remove the key to the car if such action can be done safely, call for an ambulance, and wait. I mean, it's not unusual for more than one police car to show up for a less-than-routine stop, so it's not like it's an undue strain on the police force.
Slight drift: It's a good thing such policies (and technology) didn't exist in the 60's--imagine what the aftermath of a sit-in would have looked like. If civil disobedience is removed from the repertoire of ways to address perceived injustice, we're left with one less step between ballot box and cartridge box--not a good thing, in my opinion.
