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Originally Posted by JohnnyB
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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Had he not acted the way he did he may still be alive. Therefor, his actions were the first step toward his death with many other steps involved
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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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This isn't the first time this has happened and it wont be the last. And every time it happens there is some kind of investigation.
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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.
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You dont know that....read the link that I posted before. Again, everyone is jumping to conclusions.
Any devise used to bring control on someone has a chance of injuring or killing that person. If someone has a certain condition and they are handcuffed wrong and not positioned right they can die. It is not the handcuffs fault.
Deploying pepperspray on someone who has breathing conditions and heart conditions could kill the person.