Reply #45: Very unsafe handling of the situation after the tasing.

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Mr Snelling fell between the cars. That is the one place *never* to be during a traffic stop - EVER. There have been many instances of another car hitting the back of the patrol car at speed, ramming it into the back of the stopped vehicle. If someone's standing between the vehicles, they get crushed between them, pure & simple. One should *NEVER* stand between a patrol car and a stopped vehicle.

And Cpl Snelling knows that. I won't even go into standing with his back to traffic while he waited for backup, but you'll notice that Cpl Snelling didn't stand between the cars. He stood off to the left of the patrol car. Not a very safe position, but safer than between the cars. Yet he left his prisoner there.

He forced his prisoner (because at that time, Mr Snelling was very much detained) to remain in an extremely unsafe position. It's obvious from the audio that Mr Snelling was able to move, because O'Connor kept telling him to lie down and wait for another officer to get there.

Regardless of the rightness or wrongness of the tasering itself, Cpl O'Connor's actions in failing to direct his suspect to move - even to crawl - to the side of the road, out from between the cars, once there was no longer a "perceived threat" from him, put Mr Snelling's life in jeopardy.