Tasers should be banned, they cause death, heart attacks and other maladies. No reason for them to be in use.
End qualified immunity.
I’m a far right nut, but this has to stop. Can’t have a one sided way of doing things.
So if someone comes to attack you with a knife, you don’t believe you should use a weapon kind?
Tasering is a safer form of stopping a deadly assault than just shooting the bastard.
Sux for the 75 year old man that he rolled the dice and lost.
> Tasers should be banned… <
The taser is meant to be a less-lethal option. Often it is wrongly used. For example, maybe a cop doesn’t feel like wrestling with a subject, or chasing after a subject. So he deploys the taser. But here the subject evidently grabbed a knife. All bets are off. The taser use was appropriate, in my opinion.
> End qualified immunity. <
I kind of agree with you here. Sometimes a police officer must make snap decisions while under pressure. In those cases qualified immunity should apply. But suppose a cop casually decides to behave like garbage just because he can? Qualified immunity should absolutely not apply.
I have gun’s and a taser...What would you rather I do?
would you prefer they throw him out a window?
Just stop posting, the hole you're in is deep enough.
Some police forces use bean bags, rubber bullets, pepper spray etc as non lethal force—not sure if the outcome would have been better for a frail old guy....
Less dangerous than a gunshot wound. Tasers fill a niche in those circumstances where grappling with a suspect would be dangerous for the officer, but in which a suspect could be reasonably subdued without resorting to lethal force, when, as in this instance, the suspect was threatening officers with a knife.