Re: Tasers

Natalie Teeger wrote:
> 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.
> 

"Less Lethal".  "LESS LETHAL".  Now calm down ma'am, before I'm forced 
to Taze you.