Generally, I tend to keep my opinion neutral until a report has been filed and all of the facts have come to light but a few things in particular struck me about what was reported in this article:

Then, six members of the Sheriff’s Emergency Response Team, dressed in white full-body biohazard suits and gas masks, arrived and placed a wildly struggling 130-pound McKenna into full restraints, their reports state.

Are we seriously supposed to believe that six people couldn't contain a 130 pound, mentally ill woman? I suspect that the use of the body suits implies that there was either an issue of bodily fluids, or something else entirely that wasn't covered in the article, but it sounds incredible that not even 6 trained officers could take on a single woman, who was already in custody.

the use of a stun gun on a restrained prisoner, saying it was “a means that is often useful to ensure the safety of a person” rather than using physical force to gain compliance. She said stun guns were used “occasionally” on prisoners who are already restrained.

I found this particular statement to be rather infuriating.

Sure, a taser is preferable to say, beating someone into compliance with a nightstick or the but of a rifle, but this implication that using a taser isn't a form of physical force is stupid. A taser makes the body seize. You pull the trigger in order to send volts of electricity through the taser into the prongs, which then flows into the individual. Sure, you're not going to the ground, putting the suspect into a headlock or mashing their face into the ground with your hand but to say that the use of physical force isn't involved in the action of tasing someone is misleading.

Think to all of those cop shows or youtube videos that you've seen of people getting tased. What is the first thing the officer does after pulling out a taser? "Settle down or you're gonna get tased!" The taser is out and the officer is demanding compliance. Cut and dry. I just expect a certain level of honesty and acknowledgement when they are making these kinds of statements. No one is going to sit back and pretend that officers have it easy. Tasers give officers the option of being able to do their job slightly more efficient, with a lower chance of having to kill someone in their day-to-day operations; if they come to rely on it, it's better then relying on a firearm or a beatstick, but it still absolutely has an element of psychical control to it. To say that tasers aren't used as a means of gaining compliance through physical force is blatantly dishonest.