Put the phone down

1:32 Shot Taser By Police

https://www.sportskeeda.com/pop-culture/who-momoispimpin-tiktoker-goes-viral-uploading-video-tased-police

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I haven't done any further research into this situation, so maybe I'm missing something, but I feel like there's an aspect to this that I haven't seen anyone mention. Based on what's in the video, this shows a young brown man who has been pulled over by a cop in a rural area with few people around. It seems that the cop already had the gun drawn at the very beginning of the video, before he started asking the man to put his phone down, which could mean that the man's reason for recording in the first place was because he felt like he could be in danger of getting shot/tasered. I'm assuming whatever he was pulled over for wasn't like a heinous crime or something, so having a weapon pulled on him from the get-go was probably unexpected and pretty scary, especially when he's a brown man in an empty, rural area of the US with no one around. The trustworthiness of the police and other authorities has been in question for decades, now more than ever. It is very possible this man was genuinely very afraid of the situation, so he decided to record it as a way of trying to protect himself from harm, not because he wanted internet fame. If he didn't record it, the police could find a reason to shoot him anyways, and if there's no civilian witnesses, it probably wouldn't be hard to get it ruled as self-defense in court. By recording, he has a bit more insurance, though not very much.

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Why are you assuming he didn't commit a heinous crime? I think it's much safer to assume this isn't happening because he ran a stop sign. You're rationalizing what you want to believe. You made a whole story to support an idea with zero evidence.

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