> This is a nothingburger because no US law enforcement officer will get close enough to a suspect to touch them [...]
Of course they will. They routinely restrain and physically arrest people. Wrestling somebody to the ground is trivial with these.
> If you have to electrocute suspect, he is dangerous [...]
That is the whole point here: they will be used when they don't have to be, but when it is convenient for the agent. The casual fully unwarranted pepper spraying in Idiocracy was a funny joke until ICE agents started doing exactly that: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tPPQRb9TAhc