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You're missing the point of the original post on proper techniques; proper takedown/restraint techniques will work on any individual if you have sufficient numbers (more people needed for larger/stronger suspects). The 5 police officers were trained in restraint, and instead, lazily applied the taser. Additionally, your strawman setting (he could bust past the officers and run around the airport "throwing stuff at by-standers" ) is disingenious. The man was calm and compliant at the time the taser was applied. No lives were in danger, especially not others at the airport. C'mon, stop sensationalizing. If he had charged the cops, they may have reason to tase him. This did not happen.

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This is the most ridiculous part of the story. The guy was ALREADY CONTAINED. All they had to do was have the cops stand guard outside the door until an administrative type could get someone who "spoke Russian" in there to figure out what was going on.

Consider this:

The cops were going to subdue the man, cuff him, place him under arrest, take him to jail or airport holding, and...

...get a TRANSLATOR in so that they could interview and interrogate him.

You guys can't see it, but I'm so doing the Lewis Black WTF?!??! look.