Ravenwood - 12/20/04 06:15 AM
Yet another man in South Florida has died after being shot by a Police TASER which delivers a 50,000 volt shock.
A 36-year-old man died Wednesday night after a Hollywood police officer shot him with a Taser gun, police said. [...]The latest case involved a man who was said to have become "unruly" and "violent" (no other details were provided). The cause of death is still under investigation.The death followed several controversial incidents in South Florida involving Tasers, less-lethal weapons used by law enforcement to subdue violent suspects. Three other people have died in the region after being shot with Tasers since 2002; two of those deaths involved drug use and the third was ruled accidental. Miami-Dade County authorities have recently been criticized for using the weapons on juveniles.
The first and last thing in training to use tasers should be:
"There is no such thing as a non-lethal weapon.
There is no such thing as a non-lethal weapon.
There is no such thing as a non-lethal weapon.
Got it?"
Posted by: markm at December 20, 2004 5:06 PM(c) Ravenwood and Associates, 1990 - 2014
