Timothy Worley – Former NFL Player Tasered and Arrested (video)
April 19th, 2008Former NFL running back and a Pittsburgh Steelers star Timothy Worley was tasered and arrested by Smyrna police for “becoming confrontational”. The whole incident was caught on police cruiser camera.
Timothy Worley was pulled over for speeding and lane violation (lane violation? WTF???). He told the police officer he had no ID, which was obviously just a lame excuse at trying to get himself out of this (not like it would work).
There is no denying that Timothy Worley acted like an ass. You don’t use foul language and you obey instruction of a police officer, but in this case it does seem like the cop was needlessly aggregated and very trigger happy. Timothy Worley was not confrontational to begin with, he seems to have been pushed to the limit until he flipped.
I’m not a cop so I don’t know what proper procedures are, but it is possible this is what cops need to do in order to conduct their job properly. Imagine you are a cop, you pull over a huge guy who has no IDs. It may be a safe practice to handcuff a guy until he can verify his identity, but I’m only guessing here.
From the video it appears as though Timothy Worley was swearing and using all other forms of rude language. That may be enough to get a person detained. Add to it speeding and lane violation (I believe there was also a DUI which came to light later) and you have a good reason to detain a person. Timothy Worley then says at some point – “do what you gotta do, officer” and he did. But when asked to put his hand behind his back, Timothy Worley responded with violence and yelled at the cop to get his hands off him, which prompted the cop to use a taser. Sounds like a fair use of taser to me.
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