[[SUMMARY /COMMENTS: Does a young man using a fake ID to get into a bar justify the use of a taser? Police say 20-yr-old James Roberts tried to escape after being busted for using a fake ID and the officers followed protocol. “That is authorized. If you chase somebody, an officer can get hurt, the […]
[[ Summary / Comments : “A magistrate has released dramatic footage of a man being tasered by police in far west New South Wales while on his knees with his hands behind his head.” – The man takes off his shirt after being tasered, clearly confused – and gets shocked again … a typical case […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: A cogent and often ironic swipe at the TASER Inc. control over the taser discourse, notably for the TASER reply (under the article; it is completely irrelevant).A good counter-argument to “tasers don’t kill”: “If an arsonist burns down a house with a person inside, they’re charged with murder. No jury, no prosecutor, […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: The officer who shot Antonio Galeano 28 times – according to the printout, only 8 times by his own recollection: “agreed that he could have inadvertently pressed the Taser’s “very touchy” trigger more times as he struggled with the violent Mr Galeano … Questioned about his Taser training at the inquest, Snr […]
An initial version of this text was published on the Canadian Dimension blog on 10 February 2011 (http://canadiandimension.com/articles/3723/) The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) reported on December 6 2010 “Taser killed Ontario man: Ontario Special Investigations Unit”. The SIU, a provincial independent police oversight body, had just issued its report on the death of Aron Firman […]
[[GlobalShock: “James CodyGuedry, who was a rookie officer during the Aug. 24, 2007 traffic stop, was sentenced to 90 days probation for shocking Derrick Newman, an unarmed passenger in the car, with a Taser”, now the police dept has given him an indefinite suspension. One wonders whether his I-was-just-following-orders defense (“Guedry testified last year that […]