Here we have yet trigger happy cop who tases a speeder for failing to follow his orders, or failing to immediately follow his orders. Since when is this a law?

As reported this is what occurred and can be seen in the dashcam video from the officers car; Officer Thomas O'Connor (Austin Police Department) pulled over Eugene Snelling for speeding, 70 in a 65 MPH zone. Apparently Eugene Snelling was too slow to provide Officer O'Connor with his driver license and insurance, and was asked to step out of the vehicle, where he was shortly after tased.

Check the video for yourself, Officer Thomas O'Connor deploys his taser 45 seconds after approaching the vehicle, just because the driver was speeding five miles over the speed limit, and was too slow to provide his license and insurance?

Officer O’Connor walks up to Snelling’s car window and demands a driver’s license and registration. Snelling’s voice rises, saying, “Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!” O’Connor shouts back, “No, not ‘whoa, whoa, whoa.” He orders Snelling out of the car. Snelling complies, but O’Connor shocks him anyway with the Taser - all within 45 seconds of being stopped.

As you watch the video of this Austin Police department Officer's dashcam, ask yourself two things:

• What if this is one of your family members, your son, daughter, father, wife or even yourself. Do you think this is the kind of Police Officer we should have Protecting US?
• If Eugene was tased, it also means he was arrested. What was he arrested for, what criminal act did he commit?

After an investigation, the department’s Internal Affairs office saw no need for disciplinary action. But then, Acting Chief Cathy Ellison reviewed it and ordered a three-day suspension without pay for Officer O’Connor, who served it and then returned to duty.

When Art Acevedo, the new chief, saw the video he strongly disapproved of O’Connor’s action and saw the footage as a “teaching moment.” He released the video, told officers to watch it, and made it clear that any officer who did the same as Officer Thomas O’Connor would be in serious trouble.

Eugene Snelling is now suing the Austin Police Department and Officer Thomas O'Connor

Eugene Snelling said Officer Thomas O’Connor violated his civil rights and used excessive force when O’Connor Tased him during a traffic stop.

"I gave him no reason to be provoked. He provoked it his own. He didn't like something so he escalated it, and his actions are what happened to me," Snelling said.

When Chief Art Acevedo took his post, he turned the video into a training video to show police what not to do during a traffic stop. "If a member of my family was stopped, would I want them to be treated the way this person was treated?" Acevedo asked during the training video.

The city has declined to comment on the lawsuit until it can further review it.

The Internal Affairs Investigation

In a statement to internal affairs detectives, O'Connor said, "I saw it as a very simple thing, a very simple traffic violation that could have been taken very, care of very quickly, had he presented his driver's license and insurance. We could have both been on our way." He said he pulled his Taser "because he was argumentative, and I thought I might have a problem" and that he fired the weapon, which delivers a shock of up to 50,000 volts, when Snelling appeared to "reach his hand up toward me." He said he was concerned that he could have been hurled into traffic. O'Connor said he also had not eaten and has a medical condition that "makes you kind of edgy" without food.

So basically, they let this abusive cop back to work with a three day suspension, even after he has a "medical condition" that makes him "edgy". Since this is all on record, the next time this Cop abuses someone, this department is in for a major lawsuit; knowing that they now have a Cop who become "edgy" and abusive due to his medical condition!