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If the officer asks a questions, sometimes it pays to offer a response ..... Officers struggled with an Orlando man reported to have been walking down the middle of U.S. Highway 441 and subdued him only after Tasing him three times and spraying him with pepper spray, according to police. Anthony David Schaffer, 58, faces charges of battery on a law-enforcement officer and resisting an officer with violence. The incident started at about 6:30 a.m. Friday after a woman told dispatch she saw a man almost get hit by a car three times. The man was walking down the middle of U.S. 441 just north of Old Mount Dora Road, police Lt. Robert Bell said today. A dashboard camera video from a patrol car shows Schaffer, 58, walking north on the highway's shoulder. Schaffer can be seen walking around the vehicle as the officer is getting out of her car to tell Schaffer to walk on the sidewalk about five feet away. According to a police report, Schaffer approached the officer in an "aggressive manner." As the officer pushed him away, Schaffer grabbed her arm. The video shows another officer running toward Schaffer and pulling him away. Both officers and Schaffer lost balance and fell on the ground, where one of the officers tried to handcuff Schaffer. He resisted, locking his hands against his chest. Two other officers ran up to intervene. One used a Taser on Schaffer but to no avail. He sat up and began pulling away the Taser's probes. Another officer used her Taser, but it also had no effect. Schaffer got up and started charging at one of the officers, who used pepper spray to keep him back, according to the report. Again, it didn't work, even though Bell said pepper spray is normally incapacitating. In a final effort to keep Schaffer down, one of the officers grabbed Schaffer's arm and pushed him to the ground while another pressed his Taser directly on Schaffer below his shoulder blade. Officers were able to grab Schaffer's arms and handcuff him, according to the report. Schaffer refused to answer questions from police, according to the report. .