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Originally Posted by Bent Wookie
Meaning, he could have been suffering some catastrophic medical condition before the tasering took place and was going down well before he actually got zapped.
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That is a possibility. Sweating profusely is usually a symptom of a heart attack, so that is indeed a possibility. Sweating is also a result of stress and over-exertion, which could also have been a result of being worked up over his luggage. The man could have been to the point of being over-stressed (on the verge of having a heart attack) from the events he was going through, and the taser pushed him over the edge and sent him into full blown cardiac arrest. I think this is a very likely scenario.
You'll notice that I haven't condemned the officers for their actions. I'm still waiting to hear a little more about the details of what went down before criticizing their actions or training, which may or may not have resulted in anything. I did mention the obvious fact that the taser was used, the guy died, and without that the guy is likely alive today. What I do take offense to is the extreme leap in logic that the guy was on drugs and that this was the reason for his death. The guy being a drug user is pretty unlikely, given the circumstances. The guy having an unknown heart condition that was triggered as he was tased is more likely.