tasers part 2

fight_or_flight

United States3988 Posts

November 28 2007 18:15 GMT

There are a number of stories this week. I still have to get my sources down, so expect better organization as time goes on.

New Stories:

no charges filed for 17yo girl tasered in handcuffs

family talks about 20yo man who died from taser

man dies after being tasered

UN declares tasers form of torture

canadian man dies from taser

Followup:
Last week there was a video of a man being tasered after getting a ticket. Here is what some police had to say about it (disturbing).

XCetron

5226 Posts

November 28 2007 18:32 GMT

I see nothing wrong with their forum aside from the fact that they think tasering is like a punch to the arm, nothing too damaging.

and speaking of forum, did ours just get a new upgrade? The ability to use spoiler tag without typing the code now.

Mayson

312 Posts

November 28 2007 18:58 GMT

I like how everyone is jumping on the "tazers are dangerous" bandwagon.

Do they hurt? Yes. Are they incapaciting? Yes. Is there an incredibly small chance of you being injured, or even killed by one? Yes, with emphases on the "incredibly small chance" portion of my previous sentence.

So, people respond with, "Well, it can kill you, so it shouldn't be used." If a drug was invented that cured cancer, but would kill one person out of every 1,000,000 would consume it, would you not take that chance if you had cancer?

By the way, all of the videos I've seen of people getting tazered are disturbing, yes, but there has only been one incident recently where the tazer use was not justified. I don't remember where it happened, but a woman got tazered while handcuffed because she was being nothing more than a bitch. She was placed in a cruiser, and tried to kick out the side window. She was tazed again, but with good reason (refusing to comply with officers' commands to stop vandalizing police property).

So now you have people everywhere defiant towards police, thinking that the officers who would otherwise give their life for the average citizen being forced into using non-lethal forms of control against people who just won't follow the laws. Too bad. Follow the laws, you don't get tazered. Break the laws and assault an officer, you're going to get tazered. (But then you can cry about it on YouTube because it was so "unfair.")

Snet

United States3573 Posts

November 28 2007 19:19 GMT

I agree completely with Mayson. It's so easy to watch a video of a taser, but not know anything about the situation or what led to the cop resorting to the taser, and then cry "police brutality".

Mayson

312 Posts

November 29 2007 00:53 GMT

Police are an easy target. It's much easier to get into an uproar, get yourself caught up in in the slanted media report, or better yet: think you know how to do an officer's job better than he/she does.

Someday you'll need a police officer to help you, and maybe they won't be. But then you'll complain about that, too.

Snet

United States3573 Posts

December 04 2007 16:15 GMT

Sorry, but I thought this was worth the bump.

http://www.kwch.com/global/story.asp?s=7446220

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