Personally, IMHO, I think there needs to be better training and guidelines for the application of Tasers. And potentially even consequences for making the wrong decision.
HALIFAX -- Nova Scotia has placed an immediate interim restriction on the use of Tasers to "situations of violent or aggressive resistance or active threat that may cause serious injury" to a police officer or another person.
My guess is there will suddenly be a surge in violent or aggressive resistance and/or active threats that may cause serious injury to a police officer or another person.
Agreed. If someone isn't healthy enough to take a taser, they still have a good chance of living a lot longer un-tasered.
That's like saying it's someone's fault they couldn't take a baseball bat to the skull. Generally speaking - this is not something that is expected of people on a consistent basis.
<a href="http://www.whiotv.com/news/16910498/detail.html">Blind Woman Tased By Dayton Police</a>
<blockquote>DAYTON, Ohio -- Dayton police said they went to an apartment building on Fernwood Avenue looking for a robbery suspect and ended up tazing the man's mother who is legally blind.</blockquote>
<blockquote><cite>Posted By: thorninyourside</cite><a href="http://www.whiotv.com/news/16910498/detail.html">Blind Woman Tased By Dayton Police</a>
<blockquote>DAYTON, Ohio -- Dayton police said they went to an apartment building on Fernwood Avenue looking for a robbery suspect and ended up tazing the man's mother who is legally blind.</blockquote></blockquote>
what a bunch of cowards, they cant control a 49 yr old blind woman?!?!
and now the lady is being charged...those cops in the states are out of hand.
When the Police act irresponsibly, they will charge you to try and cover up their misdeeds. Many charges are dropped after a time period.
Do you remember a short time back when a Wpg CBC TV camera man was charged because he was taking pictures of some police action. That charge was dropped!
In the heat of some actions , I think that a part of a policeman's brain stops functioning!
A bunch of cops tasered a blind 49 yr old woman??? Was she carrying her loot down the hallway? What was she charged with? Being in the way of a brain-dead cop with a lethal weapon?