In other news: a 22 year old woman is tased, twice by a Florida cop for not responding quickly enough to his requests (she was on the phone). Two 5-second bursts of 50 kilovolts: that's like getting repeated slammed in the face with a lead pipe. Really, there's nothing quite like watching the video to drive home was a monstrous, unnecessary act of police violence this is. I've never heard a woman scream like in my life: it makes my skin crawl.

I refuse to believe that this is the sort of police state my country is becoming. This officer was a disgrace to his uniform.