But the officer did use lethal force ~ a taser can kill. Happens all the time. We have a regular cottage industry here at Free Republic where we examine taser deaths insideout.
140 deaths out of 40,000 applications (per the guy on Fox News).
I’ll take those odds against any other device the officer has on his belt.
A taser is not a “lethal” device because it isn’t designed as such and the statistics support that.