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To: muawiyah
No Tasers are not lethal. Gunshots are lethal. Tasers are designed only to disable the suspect temporarily. If someone has some condition that would make it dangerous for them to be tasered, then it would probably also make it dangerous for them to be physically restrained by police officers.

If you have a condition like this and you are being told by a police officer who is pointing his Taser at you to put your hands behind your back, and then you don't, then it is you who have chosen to be subdued with a Taser. If you subsequently die, then it is your fault.

This guy could have signed the ticket, which serves as a bond to release him on the promise that he will appear in court to answer the charge. Once he refused to sign the bond, he was refusing to appear in court. Absent a bond, the police officer had no recourse but to arrest him. When he chose to act erratic and refused to obey the commands of the officer who was arresting him, then he chose to be Tasered. This was entirely the fault of the driver.

516 posted on 11/22/2007 9:09:08 PM PST by SALChamps03
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To: SALChamps03
No Tasers are not lethal. Gunshots are lethal. Tasers are designed only to disable the suspect temporarily.

Say what????

Canada'a 3rd Taser Death Sparks 8th Concurrent probe..
531 posted on 11/22/2007 10:47:29 PM PST by darbymcgill
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