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This is one of those situations where I'm not sure there was a good answer. They probably shouldn't have used the taser on a pregnant woman who wasn't resisting them violently. Especially since they still ended up having to physically drag her out of the car. Then again, we have no idea what the woman would have done had she not been tased before being dragged out. Maybe she would have struggled harder, and getting into a physical struggle with a pregnant woman isn't a good idea either. I don't think this particular case is as bad as some I've heard. But in some cases I do think the police are resorting to using tasers too readily, simply out of laziness. And my other problem with taser use is that though they are marketed as non-lethal weapons, there are cases in which they can be lethal, and although those cases are very rare, there is generally no way of telling before using the taser whether it will kill the person it's being used on.