Late to this latest party, but here's my take. Daunte shouldn't have run, but he shouldn't have had a warrant in the first place. Why? The original issue/horrible deplorable crime that started this snowball was he was carrying a pistol w/o a license. I know, to most Anti's that's a crime against humanity to own a gun, let alone carry one while under 21.
Seriously, I thought we were all for small government and gun rights here? Do they not apply to young adults 18-20? Wasn't there a segment of people on NES who were saying in November that the laws are f*cking pointless because if you can steal and election why should any of us obey any new gun control laws? I won't bring up him being Black, although everyone here knows as well as I do that the Democrats view young, armed Black men like the Grim Reaper and have used them to pass gun control laws going back to the 1800s.
Look, we've all been around, who here back in their teens and 20s didn't know others who were underage who were drinking alcohol and/or smoking weed? Nobody. Who here hasn't taken a selfie of themselves with a gun or taken a picture of a gun they own?
Y'all are seriously sounding like boomers.
We all like to play little gangsters on the inside, everybody likes to play an outlaw, but there's a difference between playing outlaw and being an outlaw and if we're gonna say that some 19/20 year old Black kid who posts silly things on Twitter about running from cops like he's Harrison Ford in The Fugitive, whose got pics of himself drinking and smokin' a blunt who's carrying a pistol without a license should not be allowed to do that when the 2nd Amendment says he has a right to do so, then we've got some issues with consistency in our beliefs.
That having been said, Daunte shouldn't have tried running, least of all jumping in the car with his ho in the passenger seat to get in a high speed chase. He deserved to get shocked by the Taser, but the grandma diversity hire cop who has probably been a counter jockey most her career, f*cked up royally pulling her Glock instead of the Taser.
I've seen the "I meant to use the Taser/I thought it was a Taser" excuse before and here's the deal: you are a police officer, the department spends upwards disgusting amounts of money on equipment, training, testing, etc. to make an officer proficient in their duty. At over 25 years on the force you should not be making the Taser mistake because if the Taser mistake is going to be accepted and every time a cop goes for the Taser and pulls out the 9mm or .40 pistol and kills a suspect, we're gonna have a lot of dead people who don't deserve or need to die.
I don't want to hear the "just obey and nothing bad will happen" bullshit, you may as well just say if someone resists arrest they deserve to be executed. I say if you resist arrest, you're gonna get hurt, but I do not equate attempting to flee to be tantamount to attempting to kill a police officer. Apparently the grandma with the Taser didn't think he was too much of a threat because she intended to use the Taser and not her pistol.
But, for those here who like their militarized police state where every cop can be Judge Dredd... you know if you like your militarized police state, you can keep your militarized police state. Just don't complain when your militarized police state is turned on you to take your guns.