The Independent, UK (22 December 2008) - Johann Hari: Tasers are an outrage we must resist. We are moving to a culture of widespread assault by electricity... [LINK]
The article at the above link shows exactly what the citizens of the UK will be in for - if Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, has her way. Abuse, overuse and misuse multiplied by 30,000 more stinking taser torture devices.
Extract:
...In the US, a 16-year-old schoolboy was tasered by cops in a playground for "using profanity"; a dementia-riddled man in his eighties was shocked for urinating in the park; 50,000 volts were fired at a 17-year-old boy who had fallen off an overpass and broken his back. The Metropolitan [London] Police have said they won't participate in Smith's Taser roll-out because they know it'll be particularly disastrous for relations with black and Asian communities. In the US, only 18 per cent of tasered people are white. ...
Yes, tasers are an outrage.
The all-too-typical misuse is a deep perversion of human values. If only - oh if only - the promises were within a million miles of the putrid reality.
And who exactly is responsible for the reprehensible training?
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