Family wins 10 million for wrongful death by an officer (Charlotte: 2014, law)
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Police shelve Tasers for now after another suspect dies | CharlotteObserver.com & The Charlotte Observer Newspaper (http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/07/22/2472244/police-shelve-tasers-for-now-after.html - broken link)
Cynical me says it's not because there have been deaths, it's because the potential $$$ liability has gone up with the $10mm settlement.
without the deaths there aren't lawsuits...
maybe they are using them incorrectly or the manufacturer has faulty equipment.
IMO, the Taser is nothing but mumbo jumbo created by the Prison Industrial complex to scam money from the taxpayers. The Police should not carry these scams. Give them a pistol and a billy club. It worked for 100s of years, there is no reason this can't work now.
Else, make the tazer manufacturers liable for every death that occurs due to their devices. Will it happen? Absolutely not because they paid off the politicians who voted it in.
How are these devices scams?
The work effectively and very rarely there is a death involved. Just like getting cracked by a billy club and suffering a brain hemorage etc.
Really, you are rambling all over the place here about "prison industrial complex" etc. are you ok?
LOL was watching dumbest criminals show at gym yesterday.....
large naked man trying to break into a DAY CARE. They tased him THREE times and after each blast he would jump up, rip out the taser prods and rush the door again.
Wish they'd put a couple bullets in his chest rather than risk him getting at those kids or hurting other bystanders.
Sorry the kid died but if he hadn't engaged in behavior to cause himself to get tazed he'd still be alive. The cop has hopefully been fired and if there's any justice in the world the tazer company will get off the hook for the 10 million. It's not only absurd to hold the tazer company responsible for the cops misuse of thier product but it's gold digging by the plantiffs.
The problem with this country is that nobody accepts responsibility for their actions anymore and everybody is sue happy.
How are these devices scams?...
Really, you are rambling all over the place here about "prison industrial complex" etc. are you ok?
I shouldn't bother to respond since you felt it necessary to add the personal insult to your post. That part should have been obvious. However, any device, which the taxpayers have paid for, and which now have been pulled from use, IMO is a scam. It's not working as advertised. It compromises policing, and now the city is faced with another wrongful death lawsuit. Sorry sir, you haven't made your case unless you can demonstrate why these are useful devices beyond what the prison/law enforcement industrial complex claims.
I don't think I've ever heard of the same happening to a billy club or a gun.
Nobody carries billy clubs. They carry batons if that's what you're referring to.
All I gotta say is: how on earth do you expect Officers to take a 6-5 250lb man on crack into custody?
Hands on? Yea right good luck with that one!
OC spray? Now he'll swing blindly at you but hey at least you pissed him off even more!
Baton? Jon Doe is in the corner videotaping you unleash multiple baton strikes to a person possessed by crack, which gives them ridiculous strength and a very high pain tolerance. So now you get everybody criticizing your actions. Oh and guess what you will probably break a bone or two on the crack addict because he won't even feel the strikes.
CMPD should just not arrest anybody, it's too risky. I mean if they go hands on there will be a lawsuit anyways.
I'm being facetious but there is an element of truth in there as well.
Seriously, get a pair of prop handcuffs and try to handcuff your spouse or child who is actively resisting it.
Like I said, I'm a pretty good size guy and there is a slim chance I could handcuff my much smaller girlfriend unless I throw some strikes to inflict pain to the point where she complies with verbal commands.
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