Another Viewer Gives Feedback

As I have posted for readers of my blog before, here is a nice email I received in my YouTube.com channel inbox. This email concerns the University of Florida student Taser incident involving Andrew Meyer...


lthobbes1
From one Officer to another, I thank you
May 06, 2008
Hello Richard,
I'm a Deputy in Greene County (Springfield) Mo.
After seeing your intelligent answer to the student taser incident I want to thank you.
Even since this event I have been arguing the exact same points that you have.

Ask them
Tell them
Make them

When someone does not comply we only really have two choices
1. Use physical force to make him comply which could result in numerous different injuries or even death to the offender or

or 2. They could deploy a taser, which is much safer for the officers and the offender.
ANYTIME an offender refuses to comply they must be forced. The only other option is to pull up a chair and talk about "feelings" for 12 hours and maybe he will comply:P
Most inexperienced liberals I talk to want to say "well they had three cops they could have hand cuffed him".

To these inexperienced folks- I have this to say: as a brand new rookie in corrections more than 3 years ago I took my first DT class .

At the end of class all formed two lines and went through the line taking turns having someone act as the resistor in the prone position with arms underneath them. Two officers would come up and force the person into the handcuff position. The resistor on bottom would use passive resistance only, but they would hold out as long as they could.

My MMA instructor and good friend who got me the job was also one of the DT instructors. When it was my turn to be the resistor, one of the officers to try and cuff me was a competitive power-lifter who at one time could bench over 500. The other was a large veteran C.O. female weighing approx 250-300lbs.

Long story extremely shortened- These two tried repeatedly to cuff me with no success until they almost wore themselves completely out. So the DT instructors asked them what they should do. The instructors ended up instructing them to call for back-up. At this point the rest of the class all pounced on me. (I don't know the exact number of total students but I would guestimate 10-15)

After about 2 minutes of the entire class failing to handcuff me most of the class were worn out and the instructors called scenario. The DT instructors were of course laughing and claiming they only did that because they knew I was a grappler and "I wanted to see a cluster, and I knew you would be good for a cluster"

Am I trying to brag? Not at all, You and I both know that even a 100lb methed out woman can keep 5-6 officers busy for quite some time....

I have trouble sometimes painting an accurate picture of what police work is really like to liberal civilians. The taser is not the equivalent of the electric chair the way many liberals have been brainwashed into thinking. It is hard to de-program people from the romantic ideas people get from TV about police work.

I think you did an extremely superb job of explaining the John Kerry Taser action and I hope you keep making these explanations on youtube in the future.

Thank you so much for posting this video. You did a great job keep it up.

God Bless,
Jeremiah