Bro Curtis, you're not the only one with experience in this area.
About 16 years ago, I was a Teachers Assistant in Special Education. It was a County Job. I filled in for the regular aides who took the summer's off.
It was a great job while in College, paid $10 per hr instead of $3.50 per hr, our minimum wage at the time. Theonly requirements were to pass a test, and be CPR certified. Being only 18 yrs old didn't hinder me. I was the only male teachers aide and recommended immediately. Now our County requires an AA Degree to be employed as an Aide.
I have experience in restraining kids, mainly in the Severely Emotionally Disturbed classes. I worked with teens, most were around my age to a year older. During this time, I once twisted a kids arm around his head and threatened him. I became tired of being battered, and became impatient. I never considered my life in danger, though he was 18 and I was 19, and we had the same build. I knew what I did was wrong, and never advocated it or told anyone. When the students acted up during school, they went to the padded room we called the quiet room. They were almost always dragged there by myself and the female teacher for a rediculous reason like not obeying commands at the snap of a finger. It was sad. I never considered this subduing someone, but I guess it was.
In getting to know the kids, I loved most of them. They had terrible backgrounds, and responded more postively to reasoning over authoritative threats.
I also worked at Juvenille Hall (Maximum Security) as a Teachers Assistant while in my teens-early twenties. I arrived just 3 years after being an inmate there for beating someone up. The guards were happy to see me again. I once had to subdue a student, but really, I just started beating them up. They were attacking another student who was pregnant. Being a brown belt, I really got him good, the other backed down. I didn't feel bad for it though he looked terrible afterwards. You see, sometimes the situation calls for it.
But this situation with tazering this man didn't call for anything close to torture. There was no immediate danger, yet precautions should be put in motion. The Police instigated this man, placing the public at more of a danger. Their job is to protect the public. When they are so cowardily that they must tazer people who are non- violent, then I feel they ought to be fired. Be a man for God's sakes.
Attacking non-violent people with a torture device after you have them subdued should be grounds for termination. People who do not find this practice as inhumane need to examine their hearts. You do not need to have "experience" in this area to know that.