appropriateness of tasing a man who has already been tased who is simply not sitting up? can he even be cognizant of what he s being asked to do? the problem is the lack of enough guidelines. every situation is different that law enforcement officers confront. even if you have guide lines for how to use less than lethal force, and that s what we re talking about here, they won t apply to every single situation. so the things these police officers are going to have to contend with is at some point the command decision was made to take this man to the emergency room. then once they are at the emergency room, he kicks out the window, they tase him, and then they change their mind. arguably, i guarantee the plaintiff s counsel is going to make this argument. you made the decision he needed immediate medical attention. then you tase him. then you decide, it s more important we arrest him and less important he gets that medical attention. that is going to be a real problem legally for them
so even without a specific threat they make a really good command decision. i don t think this should be missed by anybody. this is a good command decision to put s.w.a.t. officers there who have a rifle with them. this is what made a difference. i bet we find out in the end we don t know if they used handgun or long gun but they won the gun battle quickly and were s.w.a.t. officers. that s an indication they probably had their long guns deployed. whether or not these potential mass murderers had rifles they were using or pistols we don t know. they certainly lost the gun battle when they met the trained one or two or how many s.w.a.t. officers they have. plus maybe some garland pd patrol officers. it may not have been all s.w.a.t. officers involved. it is good decisions, good tactics and they were able to
all right. david, you know, on other nights, they gave the protesters a little bit more leeway, a little bit more time to get their acts together and to go inside or go wherever they re going to go, this seemed a bit different because it happened just a couple minutes after the hour, after the curfew. i think you re absolutely correct it s different. and i would disagree with the hypothesis that they re frustrated and acting differently. this is a command decision from well above those line officers. there s two things we need to understand, one, the law has been stated. it was very clear, so anybody who wants to claim we didn t know about it is wrong. and there s all sorts of behind the scenes intelligence of who is in the crowd and we re not
was a command decision made about the curfew s enforcement tonight but it has to be enforced and those who get arrested will probably be released tonight but they cannot flaunt the law. bread as pillows. anyways. brian, go ahead. reporter: i m here with two of the protesters that were pushed from the plaza. and tell us what happened and you believe the tactics were too aggressive. and so we were all sitting in the square and the police came around and they just started beating people and zip tying them. no one was being violent and the cops just brutally came in. reporter: we saw some of the folks being dragged. were you saying that they were beating people when the may lay was happening?
that s when they retreated back to where we are. as note fall has come, it has gotten increasingly violent and unpredictable. that s one of the reasons we are staying closer to the police. have police attempted to affect an arrest in any way? remember earlier we talked in the 8:00 hour and they arrested looters of the stores. there was a deals store looted. and the police had enough force that they were able to come in an arrest those looters. but 1s s, 3s, 4s, arrested. out here you have so many agitators and you re in a much more dense population. it is a lot more difficult for the police to react and whether they had been told not to and told who hold thier fire and this is a command decision made on the ground, we don t know. we will stay further back.