In my experience, when I’ve tasered someone they have made a more of an involuntary noise, usually a sort of grunting (I’ve been tasered myself, and that is the noise I made) or rarely a sort of in the throat high screaming. I’ve never heard anyone, tasered by me or someone else, go “ow, ow, ow.” Although it’s probably possible, usually while being tasered a person is incapable of enunciating as clearly as Mr. Meyer.
And I agree, these officers (although I don’t believe they showed much competence, I believe they underreacted) were damned if they do and damned if they don’t, and I certainly hope they don’t receive any punishment other than a brief vacation with pay while this is investigated.
And Modern Classic has a great point. A few months ago there was a, oh I’d say, 1/3 of the way to a riot disturbance of a Minutemen speech at a college campus. What if a bunch of well-meaning college students had tried to help this moron, not knowing it was a prank, and somebody accidentally or intentionally got shot? Some cop would end up losing his job, and this schmuck probably would get zero consequences.
Although the old-fashioned Chicago-style “station house adjustments” were wrong and it’s a good thing they seem to have largely stopped, under these circumstances, you can see how and why they sometimes happened.