I can see both sides on the issue, but unless you've been their done that it is easy to judge or be the Monday Morning Quarterback! As soon as the lady saw him draw the taser she should of been, "HANDS UP SAYING OKAY OKAY ANYTHING YOU WANT!" On the other side of the coin, their are officers that go right to it instead of trying to talk to the person and get them to comply. How long should someone wait and how do you know the person isn't sizing you up! Their are way too many things to take into consideration.
Me personally the last thing I want to do is go hands on! We don't have tasers, but we do have mace and batons. The batons could easily turn it into a PINATA party. THANK GOD I haven't had to baton much less mace anyone. Have been in the chitty position to pull the BIG WORK TOOL out, but again THANK GOD I didn't have to pull the trigger.
Again I can see both sides. I don't like to judge co-workers much less other agencies, because I wasn't in their shoes at the time of the incident.