tasers were mentioned in the articles and said they were not used because the skin needs to be exposed for them to work?
Here’s the other article:
A taser wasn’t used, Dotson says, because Powell was wearing a hooded sweatshirt and the taser must make contact with skin.
The taser has to make contact. The other problem is hay there have been deaths from tasters, too, so some departments have scaled back on their use.
The taser has to make contact. The other problem is hay there have been deaths from tasters, too, so some departments have scaled back on their use.
Conversely, a lot of times a taser won’t stop a really hopped up person. I remember a case where a crazy old woman attacked her family with a knife, they barricaded themselves in a room and screamed for help, the police arrived and the old lady charged them. They tased her and it didn’t even slow her down. One of them shot her just as she lunged at him.
Oh - and when the family got out of the room, guess what they did? Claimed police brutality. What else?