When they work and achieve NMI they are a fantastic tool. Problem is there are a great many things that will keep that from being achieved. Deploying a TASER on a passively resisting suspect in cuffs is a big no go in all but the most unlikely of circumstances. Added to the fact that he was almost certainly in some sort of physiological distress the result of using the TASER would probably have been the same outcome as they got.
Simply put George Floyd was presenting those cops with a very routine and benign problem for a cop. Passively resisting suspect in a crime of non-violence. They had ample resources on scene, it should have been simple to handle that problem. That group appears to have been very bad at their jobs, completely apathetic towards him as another human or some combination of both. From what little has been posted about his health it’s very obvious that unfortunately George Floyd was an in custody death waiting to happen.
