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Originally Posted by jolinar of malkshor
The actions of the person led to this guy getting killed.
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I disagree with you completely on this point. Yelling, knocking stuff over and generally being a belligerent jerk did not kill him. Apparently, a taser did. This guy's actions and the police reactions are not one and the same thing. If you slept with my girlfriend and I then used a taser on you, I don't think the police would put the blame on you for the tasering.
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You are basically saying that tasers should be considered as leathal force...are you not?
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I'm not taking a stance on whether or not they should be considered lethal force, but I think the fact that a person died as a result of their use is very reasonable cause for an evaluation of police policy regarding their use.
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Like someone else pointed out they save a lot more lives than they take and in most cases getting zapped does not harm a person.
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Even if a tasered person is not harmed in most cases, the fact that some are harmed and even killed says to me that the use of a taser should be taken extremely seriously. How seriously must this guy's family be taking the use of a taser? He is needlessly dead.