I get pulled over in my neighborhood all the time. Being white, having long hair, and wearing leather in a mostly-black neighborhood, cops are always assuming I'm there to buy or sell drugs. They always pull me over and ask to search my vehicle. No warrant or probable cause. I always tell them no. It really pisses them off. One of them even threatened me, that he never wanted to see me again, even though I lived a block away from where he pulled me over. Cops have given me traffic tickets for speeding when I wasn't, because I didn't let them search my vehicle. Nevermind the unconstitutional nature of social experiments like the war on drugs.
I can't stand these overzealous pieces of ****. Them retaining their job depends on them not recognizing that 'law' and 'justice' are two entirely disjointed concepts. Not all cops are bad, mind you, but they are told to enforce what a few biased courts say, and not what the Supreme Law of the Land says. IMO, they're little different than a sort of faux army used to enforce a series of often illegal laws in effort to keep the population obedient to the state.
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At least you're not this guy. No ID? You get tased!
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I'm disappointed that all 30+ of those students didn't have the balls to surround and mob the few cops. If you outnumber them 10:1, then their tasers aren't going to do ****.
An idea of mine is to develop and test clothing with a built-in Faraday cage. Given that the more potent tasers on the market are ~300 kV, careful attention must be made to assure that the arcing that the taser barbs rely on to penetrate thick clothing, in cases where they don't contact tissue, can be diverted. These tasers can even stun you through thick body armor thanks to arcing. A typical taser is around 25 watts or so of power, so a Faraday cage has little worry of becoming too hot if it receives the barb end of a taser. The reduced electric shock could give you just enough time to pull a gun on that piece of **** tasing you, with the electric potential being distributed along the Faraday cage and not your muscle mass and nerve endings. Whether or not it will work, I can't say with 100% certainty. But the theory behind it is very sound.
Taser barbs also have a tendacy to bounce off of metal plates. They can't poke/hook through metal! But having metal-plated clothing wouldn't be practical. A mesh faraday cage embedded in clothing may be.
Tasers are very simple devices. Basically, a feedback oscillator and a transistor act to provide a switching frequency for a series of diodes acting as a rectifier. A small gap is used to create sparks and a series of transformers is used to step a small 9V or so up to ~300 kV.
Contrary to popular belief and what law enforcement states, tasers can be lethal. In Missouri, one man was killed by one. The police attributed the man's death to a minute amount of THC Delta9 metabolite in his system, even though he clearly wasn't intoxicated and you'd need about 6,000 times the THC provided in the typical marijuana joint to die from a THC overdose, something near impossible to accomplish. Go figure.
As far as I'm concerned, getting a taser used on you is the same as getting a gun used on you. If you aren't initially threatening the cop and such a lethal weapon is used on you, you should have every right to return in kind. Self defense.
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