12-year-old tased by police officer

[justgo_withit]

Originally Posted by amIblue?

However, I know that my experience is not universal. I am not so naive as to believe that because my experience has been X, then everyone else's must be that same experience as well.

That's what I was saying when I said things like "I don't think my belief is any more correct than theirs is" and "this is not a competition". Also, the whole part where I explicitly state an alternate belief to mine and say that it's perfectly valid. Read that part. I feel like that makes it pretty clear that I don't think my experience is universal.
In more words: I never expect that my beliefs (which differ from opinions because I can't back them up with a solid layer of fact) are better, more correct, or consistent with anyone else's, nor do I expect them to be. What I believe has/should have literally no impact on what some random person believes, I was just sharing.

Opinions are very different though. I absolutely think my opinions should be shared by all. [/facetious]

Originally Posted by amIblue?

None of this has anything to do with the fact that it is not OK to taser an unarmed child.

Sure it does. I said "I'm more inclined to think that the officer's actions were acceptable and we'll hear that there's more to the story in support of him". An example of this sort of growing story would be that the "unidentified female" who (according to the cop, of course) also charged him is actually a strong adult woman and he was aiming the taser at her. Because tasers aren't very accurate, he missed.