Posted on 12/27/2021 5:02:55 AM PST by TheManWhoWantedToBeLeftAlone
An inconvenient truth....
Tech and media suppress this
Like they do female pilot accident rates for hours flown
Or drivers for miles driven
And so forth
Lol
Made me chuckle....I don’t agree but that was funny
Where does it say she given a weapon she wasn’t trained on?
There isn’t a police department in the country that is going to give anyone a weapon, lethal or less lethal, and let them go on the street with it. The department and town/city/county/state would be assuming EVERY single bit of liability if something happened.
The taser class is only about a day long, might even be a 4 hour class. Really not much to know. 50,000 volts at low amps. Last for 5 seconds. Takes about 8 AA batteries if I remember correctly.
The only issue I have with it is, apparently, they allow folks to go through the training with getting tased. The “ride” as it’s referred to, isn’t all that bad. I’d take that over OC spray any day of the week.
Just as in the Rittenhouse case, the jury weighed the evidence, and rendered a verdict. They deliberated several days before coming to their decision. That’s how the system works.
She said she had never fired a taser. It was in her testimony.
I’m sorry it doesn’t fit your narrative.
It was clearly an accident…but she wasn’t a good cop.
Not saying she was a good cop won’t argue that
I was authorized to use a Taser. Leaned all about it. How it works. What it does to a person. How it incapacitated a person.
Never fired one. Not sure that’s even in the lesson plans for it.
What nonsense…
She killed someone, yes she did so accidentally, but to claim killings someone accidentally has no criminal culpability is beyond moronic.
Every person killed by a drunk driver was killed accidentally… does that mean Drunk Drivers have no criminal culpability?
This article is absolute trash.
I don’t celebrate the verdict, this entire thing is a tragedy… but to try to argue that a police officer has no legal culpability when they screw up is absolute nonsense.
You don’t get an immunity pass for all of your actions just because you are a police officer, nor should you.
This attempt to say because the person killed wasn’t a nice guy, then this officers actions are okay are just as stupid.
This is a garbage article written by an idiot. If you seriously believe a police officer should have blanket immunity for actions they take as part of their job, you are advocating for a tyrannical state.
That’s interesting. How did you feel about that? My son is a state trooper and they had to use it…and everyone in the class got hit with it as well.
I guess it was akin to going into the gas chamber in basic training?
It's not the conviction, which was justified, it's the charges and the subsequent sentencing.....
Hell, the 19 year old Hispanic kid who ran a red light while high on drugs and alcohol that broadsided my brother's car in California back in 2001, killing him, then tried to flee the scene, only got four years in prison.
Who’s this “they”
I got shocked. I didn’t have a choice. I went through the training in ‘04 or ‘05, when they weren’t widely used or issued the way they are now. At the time, the only unit that had them was SWAT and I was going through the units training class. But, we didn’t get shot with it either. Too time consuming and costly.
When they went mainstream in my old department, I was already gone, doing other stuff. I was shocked to learn that they gave officers a choice. But, then again, if they shock someone and he/she has a heart condition and they have a heart attack or worse, that’s a helluva lawsuit, I guess.
You can use the probes as long as there are fresh batteries in the taser. They had a once fired one and placed the probes where they wanted. And then 5 seconds of 50,000 volts. Costly and time consuming, especially if the probes got under your skin with the barbs.
Hats off to your sons agency for doing that. I’m sure that was a good time, shooting your buddies with one. I’m sure the training staff made the decision to have each trooper fire it, although it is not required.
But, agencies will follow the recommendations of the manufacturer, as they usually already have a lesson plan developed. That way, if/when something happens or a lawsuit is filed, as long as the LEO followed the training, the company lawyers will help defend in court.
But, we all got trained in how to use the ASP. We didn’t hit each other with expandable, metal batons.
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