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Originally Posted by Miss Tick
Chicago cops Taser 8-months-pregnant woman during parking dispute
Apparently tasers are not less lethal weapons for cops to use to protect themselves, they are instruments of torture that the police can use whenever they want, on whomever they choose, for any reason whatsoever.
Rather than deal with any potential problems from upset or angry citizens, just taser them into submission. Scary shit that.
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What the fuck is the matter with these jackasses? This just makes me sick! Obviously, it is time for "regulations" (standardized, hopefully) specific to just when and under what circumstances tasers can be used by police. As if there were not other options to calm this situation down. Craziness!!! Police officers are supposed to be trained in verbal conflict resolution in situations like this. They are taught ways to get things more calm without using any kind of weapon- so, I guess that training went down the drain due to the introduction of "non-lethal" weapons (which is untrue- tasers can be lethal and I don't think electrical charges are very good for a developing fetus).
Of course, we live in a country with 25 states that have Stand Your Ground laws and regular citizens can shoot and kill 17 year old kids based upon racial profiling in a situation in which lethal force was not indicated whatsoever. And we know police racially profile all of the time as well as well as use more force than is indicated in many instances no matter the race of a citizen.