Two urban senators lined up support in a large black fraternity today for bills that would greatly restrict, or even ban, the use of tasers by police.
Sens. Gary Siplin, D-Orlando, and Tony Hill, D-Jacksonville, said they hope for a hearing soon in Senate committees on their bills to require a study of health effects of the electronic shock weapons, which police use to subdue dangerous suspects.
Hill and Simplin met with leaders of the Omega Psi Phi fraternity and urged them to go back to their communities and call on school boards for support of the legislation.
Siplin said tasers have not been adequately tested. He and Hill said the Department of Health should conduct a test of what the devices do to the body. <snip>
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