Now that's something to chew on

Authorities in Miami are looking for more witnesses after a police officer fatally shot a naked man who refused to stop chewing on the face of another naked man on a busy downtown highway ramp. Detective William Moreno says police are looking for people to fill in the blanks on what led to the grisly scene in which a witness reported that a man — later identified by authorities as 31-year-old Rudy Eugene — savagely chewed on the other man's face and growled when a police officer kept telling him to stop. The police were doing the right thing in attempting to stop Mr. Eugene from chewing on the other person's face, but did not need to shoot him. They could've used a taser on him instead. Tasers were introduced as non-lethal weapons to be used by police to subdue fleeing, belligerent, or potentially dangerous people, who would have otherwise been subjected to what they consider more lethal weapons. A 2009 Police Executive Research Forum study states that officer injuries drop by 76% when a Taser is used. In other news, Men in Black 3, which I have already seen, has finally taken down The Avengers at the box office. According to studio estimates yesterday, Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones' latest Men in Black installment debuted with $70 million domestically over the four-day Memorial Day weekend. The film took over the number 1 spot from The Avengers, which was the top film for three straight weekends but slipped to second place with $46.9 million.