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In reply to the discussion: Tasered woman now brain dead [View all]GETPLANING
(846 posts)need to stroll on over to the Taser International website and read up on the Taser. It is not a compliance tool. It is designed to incapacitate dangerous suspects in a non lethal manner. Police have decided that rather than a self defense tool it is a compliance tool designed to make their jobs easier. There are countless cases where police abuse this device.
I was a Taser stockholder many years ago, and at that time, I really believed in what Taser was attempting to accomplish. I still think the idea of non-lethal force is a step in the right direction, but I have been really disappointed in the way the police have been using their newest "toy."
On edit, I would just add that this case is beyond tragic. I'm sure the cop never intended to kill this child, but his actions were reprehensible. She's dead because he was too lazy to run a few steps, simple as that. Not because she was driving while suspended, not because she was high. Cops are always telling people that they are responsible for putting themselves in whatever situation they find themselves in. That argument goes both ways.