Judge Napolitano:
“The courts have declared it [taser] a deadly weapon … meaning it can only be used when a target is presenting a severe threat either to the police or to the people around him.”
The result of the state investigation:
“University of Florida police were justified in using a Taser against a student who refused to stop questioning Sen. John Kerry…”
“In short, the FDLE [Florida Department of Law Enforcement] determined that our officers acted well within state guidelines,” university President Bernie Machen said in a letter to students, faculty and staff.
The original video of the incident (watched in silence by more than 2 million people):
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1 Sisyphus39 // Nov 28, 2007 at 10:26 pm
At last a positive step – a judge recognizing the taser as a deadly weapon.
There are more taser deaths than we know. Most of them are “under the wire” and not widely reported. That there are several videos of incidents proves that the problem is wider than we suspect since the vast majority of them are not on video.
The underlying purpose of tasering without a crime being committed can only be as a warning to the public not to dissent or even ask questions.
We are left, however, with a crime being invented on the spot by the policeman who insists on obedience: “Resisting arrest” charges make a felony of a physical reflex. THAT is yet to be recognized.
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