Title: Video of handcuffed and leg shackled man being killed with Taser Source:
LiveLeak.com URL Source:http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=833329c647 Published:Jan 25, 2007 Author:unknown Post Date:2007-01-25 20:37:36 by SmokinOPs Keywords:taser, death, Gwinnett County Sheriff Views:342 Comments:23
One good reason is the payola the Taser company is so generous in giving to police chiefs and procurement officers in police departments, as well as hireing retired chiefs to be PR spokesmen in the cities they just retired from.
I went to a realtors convention recently. there were thousands of vendors there, all real estate related stuff, and then there was a taser booth. I don't know why. anyway, they had this obnoxious t-shirt that I thought my daughter would love, so I asked if I could have one (you know how at conventions everyone's giving stuff like that away) and the guy tells me that the shirts are only for people who let themselves be tasered. I'm of course like 'what?????' and he said people had been volunteering all day. I kept going back by there and never actually saw anyone doing it, but others told me that they did. see it, that is, not do it.
When my brother (a cop) got his new tazer - he decided to hold it against the door handle of his screen door just when my spouse was about to enter the house - said spouse did a complete blackflip before hitting the ground twitching. Those two, being men, found it funny - I was not very amused.
Granted, said spouse is not a big man and the tazer was on a lower setting - but I cannot imagine what it can do on a high setting to a subdued subject.