They should simply be sacked, nobody that ****ing dim should be allowed a job, never mind a job as a copper.
You can't go around brandishing a white stick in a built up area and not expect 50,000 volts..the guy was asking for it..its about time they clamped down on these blind bastards
Hear Hear!!! (well he can't see see) Seriously, if you can get close enough to Taser a bloke but you can't tell he's 61 and blind and carrying a white stick, then it seems to me the wrong guy had the white stick. If the guy had had a dog the copper would have probably Tasered that as well. Basically the copper just wanted to use his Taser and didn't give a **** who on. If they'd had them at Hillsborough the South Yorkshire Plod could have really had a field day.
You have not lived until you have witnessed an old blind man writhing about on the end of a taser wire.. Its such a rush...
Good job the people in power didn't give in to public pressure to give all the coppers guns after those two WPCs were shot isn't it.
What about the many people who reported him as brandishing a samurai sword? He obviously had a sword but hid it when the old bill arrived and pulled out a white stick to try and throw them off the scent. The copper who tasered him saved the whole of Chorley from being cut into tiny pieces by a crazed elderley samurai. FACT
Should hope the Police Officer is promoted and transferred to the South Yorkshire Police for his quick thinking and brave actions.