The BART (SF Bay Area Rapid Transit) Police Department has stripped its officers of tasers on Thursday, after a veteran sergeant in a moving patrol car fired his taser several days ago at the 13-year-old boy, who was fleeing from an altercation at BART's Richmond station on a bicycle. ... BART officials, who said officers would be retrained to use the [potentially-deadly, much-abused, propaganda-laced] devices. ... [
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Repeat after me:
So-called "training" (traceable to the manufacturer) that is so bad that the only word to describe it is DEFECTIVE.
It's so bad that BART has to yank tasers (effectively a self-imposed
moratorium) to gain the full attention of the taser-happy officers.
Is there anyone out there still in denial that there are major problems with tasers?
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