Tasered 9 times and died (ruled a homocide)

See It all goes here blog [LINK] which leads to Tasered while black blog [LINK]


What is the simplest possible explanation for these sorts of tragic taser-associated deaths?

The pro-taser camp insists that such taser-associated deaths are always the result of some variable and complicated series of coincidences and the taser has nothing to do with any death. On the other hand, taser critics simply think that the taser might be lethal for some people, under some conditions, and perhaps involving bad luck (such as dart placement).

The pro-taser camp is fixated on the center of the bell curve. They've shown that the taser is probably safe for those normal and healthy people and average circumstances in the middle of the bell curve. Fine. But they've done next-to-nothing to investigate the edge of the bell curve. They'd like to deny the existence of any risk-of-death in the outlying populations and circumstances.

Some of their claimed safety factor is based on dart placement (Webster), but they also claim that the taser is perfectly incapable of stimulating the heart under any circumstances (Kroll). Notice how these basis of claims of safety have been distributed to various in-house and external 'experts' in accordance with their legal defense plan. You'll never see Taser and Kroll depending on dart placement for their claims of safety. Interesting.