The six-level police force continuum begins with officer presence and builds in intensity to verbal commands; empty-hand control techniques; use of pepper spray, batons or Tasers; less-lethal force such as weapons that fire bean bags or rubber bullets; and finally deadly force. [LINK]
Note the lack of any demarcation between the application of this continuum to a peaceful protester versus a rampaging serial killer. In other words, a perfectly peaceful tree-hugger can get tasered. (And if you think that is okay, then you are - quite simple - perfectly wrong.)
Reportedly, the entire concept of a force continuum is completely obsolete anyway, having been replaced with the standard of objective reasonableness many years ago. [LINK] [LINK]
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