Viritica wrote:Ifreann wrote:As I said, your country has 50 states, each with at least one police force, probably more. What you have seen officers carrying tells us nothing about what this Euhralee Police Department officer was carrying.
She could have, but that would have been stupid.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_enforcement_in_the_United_States#Less_lethal_weapons
"Another less lethal weapon that police officers often carry is an electroshock gun, also known as a Taser." Note "often" is not a synonym for "always".
And why would it have been stupid?
Because, as noted on that Wikipedia page, tasers can incapacitate one person temporarily, and that's it. If there had been two or more people on the other side of the door, which isn't exactly unlikely, the officer would have had to drop the taser and draw her gun.