Re: Tasers

On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 20:24:38 -0400, "Sharon Too"
<askformyaddy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>> Doesn't that lead to a wrong ful death suit?
>
>No. In an instance that a taser is used it is because a subject refuses
to 
>surrender to a police officer. They may have a weapon or are endangering 
>other people or themselves. The police using a weapon least likely to
cause 
>serious injury or death is in their favor. The subject has had fair
warning 
>to surrender.
>
>The chance that someone will die from a taser is far, far less likely
than 
>from being manhandled by the cops or even shot with a gun. 
>
A comparable situation would be the woman who was hit by a 
"non letahal weapon" outside of Fenway Park after the Red Sox
won the penant.

The weapon was supposed to be non lethal, it killed her
dispite that contention by the manufaturer.   The city
ended up reaching an agreement on a wrongful death suite.

Non lethal weapons are supposed to be just that
NON LETHAL.