Friday, October 8, 2010

Mentally-challenged teen tasered, dead

Keep your eye on the main question. Don't be distracted by the separate question about the lawfulness or morality of the killing. Those are important questions, but the real controversy in these sorts of tragic incidents is the following:

What killed Patrick Johnson?

He was alive, then he was tasered, then he was dead. The news reports [LINK] don't provide much detail about the exact time line.

One simple explanation is that tasers are not as inherently safe as has been claimed.

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