Posted on 12/19/2008 9:13:07 AM PST by NormsRevenge
If you folks think the tazer is bad, the bullets are even worse!
I say take the tazers away from the cops and lets go back to good ole fashion ass beatings and just out right blasting’em!
The tazer is just another option on the use of force continuum that officers need to have at their disposal.
At the end of the day, this case just like 99.9999% of the rest of the “tazer deaths” will end up involving illegal narcotics in the suspects blood stream.
they were trying to jumpstart him?
Years ago a homeless man was shot and killed by police near here when he rushed them with a utility knife. Odds are that he would have survived the encounter if police had been using the less leathal technology of tasers back then.
I’ve also heard of people dying while they were being physically restrained by police with nothing more than brute force.
Speaking forcefully just doesn’t work any better for police than it does for the UN.
Very astute WCS. An officer must know when to STOP "subduing" the perp. Also older tasers apparently didn't have the calibration and control newer models have. This link from Canada details Tasers unit stunning 60% over manufacturer specs.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081209/od_nm/us_tasers
Where did I state that drugs should be made legal? Oh, I see you’re one of those “no logical argument responded to” folks. No point in arguing with you.
Legal or illegal?
tazers, more often than not, have replaced patience and communication skills in this, our newly militarized police state where force is everything instead of a last resort. How sad for the witnesses who watched a man die for no other crime than being ‘disruptive’.
Then maybe you should take a reality break.
There is a much greater chance than 1 in 1,000,000 of someone being killed in an officer simply responding to any given call.
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