Okay this makes it even worse for the cop: http://www.baynews9.com/article/news/2012/february/383311/Exclusive:-Trooper-defends-tasing-new-video-shows-suspect-out-of-handcuffs
In the new video, Maudsley is seen in the back of Cole's cruiser after being arrested, managing to get her right hand free from handcuffs and eventually playing with her hair. At one point, it appears she tries to open the cruiser's door, but can't.
As Cole pulls into the Pinellas Park FHP Substation, Maudsley works to slip the handcuff back on, but it's too late.
"I took this off," Maudsley tells Cole.
"Put it back on," he told her.
Cole puts the handcuff back on Muadsley's wrist and escorts her into the substation.
Forty minutes later, video shows Maudsley running from the substation before she is tased with her hands cuffed in front of her and slams down to the parking lot ground.
This didn't happen at the scene of a crime,
it happened at a police station! Y'know, the kind of place where there are other cops around to help out.
"I know that I can?t just jump on her. I?m three times her weight. If we go down, one, or both of us, is going to get hurt. The taser is the intermediate weapon of choice," he says.
Well, there is that, but....
The investigator asks Cole if he considered Maudsley falling and injuring herself if he tased her.
"No."
Idiot.
