Video of tasering of hand-cuffed, non-violent woman

[pnwmom]

http://www.chroniclet.com/Daily%20Pages/112206head5.html

Fortunately, the officer in this case was quickly fired.

[rockymountaindem]

1. Wow! It's like a cattle prod!

:sarcasm:

How would they have liked it if she hit her head or the back of her neck on that desk instead of the chair and incurred a permanent injury? Then they'd really be screwn.

[file83]

2. Who is training all these cops/security people to use tasers in almost ANY situation where

someone is CUFFED but simply being non-cooperative?

Taser International, that's who. Another example of Corporate America profiting off the abuse of humans. Some freedom we have here in America, ain't it?

[mondo joe]

3. I don't even need to see it to know there's an epidemic of Taser misuse.

And I'm not going to watch it --- too upsetting!

[AJ9000]

4. Whats scary is many schools are starting to use them. Link:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2788500

[uppityperson]

5. More on the officer, or would it be ex

http://www.chroniclet.com/Daily%20Pages/111806head13.html

A Sheffield police officer being investigated for discharging his police-issued Taser stun gun on a woman already in custody has served one suspension, was facing another and has been involved in three accidents with his police car during the two years he’s been on the village force....(more@link)

[whistle]

6. Legalized sadism, the use of tasers has to be brought to an end

[pnwmom]

7. They were supposed to be used to obviate the need for

shooting or clubbing dangerous suspects, but now they're being used in situations where bullets or batons would never have been used.

Make the technology, they will use it.

[madmusic]

8. Down with Tasers.

That's enough. They are too often used as "contempt of cop" sentences.

[pnwmom]

9. I think so, too. The police are often tempted to use them

to punish people. Which is NOT their intended purpose.