Taser Death
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- detritus0
It's almost as if you believe they purposefully set out to kill the poor bastard, Dobs.
Maybe it's just too much TV conditioning, but as much as tazers repel and disgust me, I don't view them as being one down from getting shot in the face. They're grim and alien, for sure - but think about it - they're, beyond the initial shock (if you excuse the pun) actually quite a logical and effective tool. When I worked as an electrician so many years ago, I got badly zapped a couple of times - was any lasting harm done? No. Was any harm beyond a few 10s of minutes done? No.
What's the alternative then? Wrestle him to the ground and end up in a brawl any way? Again, how's that any more civilised or effective?
No one here's suggesting that what the video shows (which, I assume you've seen? the article Jaline supplied doesn't tally with what I watched) is a great thing - but this was a situation which, imo, demanded he be restrained - it's not really their fault that they didn't have the language to pacify him. How else were they to ensure his compliance?
Maybe it's because I was brought up in an area which always had security concerns and my sense of freedom has been neatly martialled by the NWO, but I know when to shut up. When to comply. The fact that this didn't happen here says more about the poor sod's conduct than it does about the Police's.
Obviously, if they tazered him 4 times, there needs to be an investigation, but there again look closely at him before he goes down - I genuinely think he'd have come a cropper no matter how they chose to restrain him.
This is pointless anyway, you're as stubborn and blinkered as discipler and all your other nemeses when it comes to trying to see beyond your opinion.