Chief Kaye didn't get the memo...

In the wrong we have...

"We reiterate that to date, there is no evidence, either scientific or medical, that a conducted-energy weapon has been the direct cause of death anywhere, at any time, on any person," Chief Tom Kaye, vice-president of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, said in a news conference in Ottawa. [LINK]

And in the right we have...

...Dr. Randolph Williams, ruled in June that Pikes' death was a homicide. Williams said he consulted with two other coroners, and both agreed that Pikes died of cardiac arrest caused by the taser shocks. [LINK] [LINK]
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This one example clearly contradicts Chief Kaye assertion.

Which makes him WRONG.


And that's just one example of many dozen where links have been established between taser use and death. Studies have shown that between 27% and 37% of all taser-associated deaths were linked by the coroner to the use of the taser. Taser fan-boys will continue to deny the link, but it is firmly established.

Even Taser International has slyly retreated from the position taken by Kaye. Taser International used to make that claim of no link with a world-wide coverage, but they're since been forced by the inevitable build-up of the statistics of failure to retreat to an "only in Canada" claim. [LINK] [LINK]

I guess Kaye didn't get the memo.