This kind of thing happens in department after department. Police get tasers on the promise that people will be safer, that they are safer than using guns. So what happens? Tasers become an instrument of control, pure and simple. Why aren’t police who misuse this equipment ever charged with assault, if not manslaughter? This man was a threat to himself and only himself. Do you mean to say that the officers on the scene were so afraid of a lightbulb that they had to use a lethal piece of equipment on him? C’mon, heroes.
New York Times [LINK] — Comment posted by 'Shrdlu'
Tasers inevitably "...become an instrument of control, pure and simple."
Exactomundo.
That's why tasers are used roughly one hundred times as often as police guns ever were.
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