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Once you have an offender on the ground and have him under control, your duty is to secure him in to handcuffs and then place him in to a transport vehicle as soon as possible to restrict his movements further. The three deputies had him under control in the first 30 seconds of him initially resisting. The offender served absolutely no threat to them after the first 30 seconds, and therefore, should not have been struck, tazed, or otherwise been subjected to any type of pain compliance. The only reason the offender served any threat to those officers is because they provided him with the opportunity to and therefore created the situation to "justify" the continued pain compliance techniques (for 10 more minutes, so the story reports). This is a text-book example of police brutality.
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