Met police chiefs are being asked to explain why officers armed with Taser stun guns are using the weapon 'disproportionately' more against black suspects. ... (89 deployments last year) ...30 per cent of the targets involved were white, 50 per cent were black, four per cent Asian and eight per cent of mixed race. The others were unknown ethnicity. ... Over a three-year period, statistics showed that 29 per cent of those targeted were white and 44 per cent black. ... [LINK]
It's difficult to argue that "Tasers-R-good" when they're seemingly-inevitably accompanied with the stench of racism.
See also [LINK] for THE EXACT SAME TREND in the USA.
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