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Originally Posted by Bent Wookie
My point was Flabb, was that there was no evidence the taser caused any sort of arrhythmia in this case. The autopsy results are stated the way they are because there is no supportive evidence that he died from a taser OR the struggle that ensued after being tasered. I don't think you can tell me which one it was, but you have taken the liberty to tell us it was the taser. I don't think you can say that.
Depending on what side of the fence you are on, you can find a supportive study. If need be I can go to the Taser site and link you everything there supporting that tasers don't cause heart issues, but I'll let you do that on your own. Then you can come back with the counter studies and, in the end, we will be no further along.
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Yes, I added an amendment to my post to reflect that no one can prove with 100% certainty in this case, or virtually any other "death by taser" case, that the taser directly caused a ventricular arrhythmia. Until medical science happens to come across a taser death where the victim was wearing a holter monitor at the time of electrocution, it is a conclusion based on fairly basic science. The situation has been successfully replicated several times with lab animals, and the link between other types of electrocution and ventricular arrhythmia is well documented.
Put it this way- do people actually think the victim in the Vancouver airport incident would still have died if he had not been tasered at all??