Well, you’ve already convicted the cops, cops who use tasers routinely to subdue fleeing suspects.
I posted a thread on this event right when it first happened, a couple days ago, and noted it was not good that the kid died. There is no way the cop would know that there would be that kind of reaction—tasers are not, despite your assertions, meant to kill people.
They are meant to control them—and in rare cases, people have reactions and die. They aren’t bullets.
“cops who use tasers routinely to subdue fleeing suspects.”
And that’s the problem. Taser use is not supposed to be “routine” per the regulations in almost every city and town in the country. And not for “compliance” and not to “subdue fleeing suspects.” It’s illegal. ONLY if you are assaulted or your life is threatened. That is the standard for taser use.
“tasers are not, despite your assertions, meant to kill people.”
I never said they are meant to kill people. I said the irrefutable evidence is in — look at the death rate — that they DO kill people. I guess we can argue about what constitutes “rare.”
But I remember and so do you in the back of your mind — there was this death we’re discussing, and that death last year, and a couple of deaths the year before — not terrorists or vicious criminals. Instead drunks or petty crooks or developmentally disabled or deaf people who had run-ins with impatient bully cops with itchy taser trigger fingers — and paid for it with their lives. “Rare” taser deaths are still patently wrong and shame us all.